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Design SHELL (tm) v6.0b
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Copyright (c) 1993-94 by: jwh: SoftWare All Rights Reserved.
Member: Association of Shareware Authors and Distributors (ASAD)
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A VGA color system and a MicroSoft (tm) compatible mouse is required
to operate this application.
NOTE !! Do not attempt to run this program from a floppy.
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Design SHELL is a complete and very user friendly Graphics User
Interface (GUI) or Menuing system. It provides the user with
colorful picture icons for selecting sub menus or executing
applications or DOS commands. Allows creating up to 30 menus
or applications on the opening page. Sub menus may be nested
four levels deep. With this configuration, you could access
up to 810,000 menu selections.
Design SHELL provides the user with options for selecting screen
background color combinations, foreground colors, font types, and
also includes a full featured Icon editor for creating sixteen color
picture icons. A complete directory/file utility with drop down
menus for working with ZIPed files and executing virus scan.
A utility for converting windows icon files (.ico) is also included
with Design SHELL (ICO2ICN.EXE).
All options can be fully password protected against entry.
Registered users receive an Icon library with over 600 Icons
upon registering.
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To run Design SHELL: Copy all files to a directory on your hard drive,
move to that drive and directory and type: DESIGN
NOTE ! NOTE ! The first time you run Design SHELL it will self
extract some compressed files. A full manual will
be included in these files.
For smoother operation, you may also include this
drive and directory in your AUTOEXEC.BAT files
PATH statement. If you do this, you can start
Design SHELL from any drive or directory on your
system just by typing: DESIGN
Files needed to run Design SHELL:
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DESIGN .EXE -- Main program module.
DS_ICON .EXE -- Icon Editor module.
DS_UTIL .EXE -- Directory/File Utility module.
DS_WORD .EXE -- Text Editor module.
DS_PHON .EXE -- Phonebook module.
DS_DIAL .EXE -- Phone Dialer module.
DS_SHELL.EXE -- Shell runtime module.
DS_VIEW .EXE -- Text file viewer module.
DS_SETUP.EXE -- Utility setup module.
DESIGN .HLP \
DS_UTIL .HLP > Program help text
DS_ICON .HLP |
DS_PHON .HLP /
DESIGN1 .FNT \
To > System Fonts
DESIGN16.FNT /
DESIGN01.ICN \
TO > System Icons
DESIGN54.ICN /
NOTE ! These icons may be edited or changed
with the included icon editor but they
must not be deleted.
NOTE !! On some versions, some of the above files may be compressed
into self extracting archive files (DS_001.EXE, DS_002.EXE,
DS_003.EXE). If you have one of these copies, the first time
you run Design SHELL, it will automaticaly un-compress these
files at run-time.
Additional files found on the shareware disk:
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README .1ST - This doc file.
SYSOP .DOC - Description of this application.
DISCLAIM.DOC - Application disclaimer.
REGISTER.DOC - Registration information and invoice.
UPDATES .DOC - List of version updates.
MANUAL .DOC - A printable manual for Design SHELL.
FILE_ID .DIZ - BBS file description.
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