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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE
- SPANISH LANGUAGE LEARNER PROGRAM
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- SHAREWARE
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- This program is not free. It is shareware. This means that you
- may try it out before you decide whether or not to buy it. After
- you have tried it out for one or two weeks, if you intend to
- keep using it you must register by sending $12.00 to
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- Arthur Wells, Jr.
- 1171 Cragmont Ave.
- Berkeley, CA 94708
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- You can use the registration form, but it's not required.
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- When you register you will be put on my list for notice about
- new versions, new programs, etc.
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- You may not sell the program, but you may distribute it as
- shareware, making a small charge for the disk and mailing. You
- may not use the program for any commercial purpose without my
- written permission.
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- You may give the program to as many people as you wish. When you
- do so, you must transfer all the files on the disk. Each user
- must send in $12.00 unless they are members of the same household
- or family as someone who has registered.
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- If the program is going to be used by a school, business or
- other entity, please contact me to negotiate a license fee.
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- I receive no other income from my programming. Equipment costs,
- supplies, mailings and BBS upload time are all paid out of
- my pocket. Therefore, if you use and enjoy the program, please
- SEND THE REGISTRATION FEE. And remember, if you don't register
- I will find you in the middle of the night when you are sleeping.
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- THE PROGRAM
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- With this program you can use your computer to study vocabulary
- words, idioms and sentences from any textbook, study guide,
- story, newspaper or article. If you are studying from a textbook
- you can make a separate file for each chapter. You can enter all
- of the different verb forms, regular and irregular. You can enter
- idioms and other expressions.
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- You can run the program from a floppy disk or copy it to a
- hard disk if you have one. The files created and used by program
- must be in the same directory or on the same floppy disk as the
- program. These files have a ".DAT" extension in their name.
- If your floppy gets full you can either delete files or copy
- the program files to a new floppy and continue to make new data
- files.
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- Under normal circumstances, you will make data files before
- you use the test option. However, everyone is usually
- interested in seeing how the test option works first, so I
- have included vocabulary files made with the program so
- that you can immediately see how the test option works if you
- want to.
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- For the following instructions, type the word or symbol between
- the "< >" marks, but not the "< >" symbols.
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- If you have only a floppy drive, insert the disk into it. At
- the prompt, follow the instructions below.
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- If you have a hard drive you should use it for the program as
- it loads much faster from a hard drive. Insert the disk into the
- floppy disk drive. At the DOS prompt type <MD\SPANISH>. Then
- type <CD\SPANISH>. Then type <COPY [disk drive letter]:*.*>.
- You are now ready to follow the instructions below.
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- THE UTILITIES
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- The program is very straight forward. To start it choose
- option <3> from the RUNME menu or by typing <SPANISH> at the
- DOS prompt and pressing <Enter>. You will see the title
- page. Press <Enter> for the main menu.
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- If you select option <2> from the main menu you will see the
- maintenance utilities. Using these utilities you can create,
- change, print and look at files of the words and phrases on
- which you will test yourself.
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- Select one of the choices. (Choice <5> is easiest.) You will
- then be asked for a file number. No matter which choice you
- selected you can call up a directory of the Spanish vocabulary
- files by pressing <F1>. They all have a "SPAN" prefix and a
- "DAT" suffix, but you only have to type in the number, which
- can be from 1 to 999. If you choose to create a file, using
- option <1>, the program will check if a file exists with the
- number of the file you have chosen to create. If so, you will
- be given the option of overwriting the existing file or choosing
- another number for your new file. If you choose creating or
- adding to an existing file you will be asked to type in an
- English word or expression. Do so and press <Enter>. You will
- then be asked for the Spanish word or expression.
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- The bottom of the screen will tell you which function keys to
- press to print the characters which are not on the keyboard.
- After typing the Spanish word or expression press <Enter> again.
- You will be asked to confirm your entry. When you are finished
- with the file press <Esc>.
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- If you choose to edit a file, the computer will show you the
- current entries one by one. The bottom of the screen tells you
- what to do.
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- You can enter phrases up to 32 characters long. This means that
- you can also include multiple meanings of a word by separating
- them with a semicolon.
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- The print file option works automatically once you have selected
- a file number.
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- The file display option prompts you to press <Enter> if there
- is more than one page of words and expressions in a file.
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- Pressing <Esc> one or two times always takes you to the main
- menu.
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- TESTING YOURSELF
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- Back at the main menu choose option <1>.
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- You will see four choices on the screen and will choose choice <1>.
- After you select choice 1 you will be asked which files you want
- to be tested on. First type in the smallest file number you want
- and press <Enter>. You will then be asked for the ending file
- number. If you want to be tested on only one file then type in
- the same number. If you want to do two or more consecutively
- numbered files then type in the last numbered file you want. You
- can only do more than one file at a time if the files are
- consecutively numbered. In any event, press <Enter>.
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- You can do up to 200 words at a time, but I recommend you do
- one file at a time.
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- By this time you will have learned that somewhere on the screen,
- in the middle of the screen or on the bottom, you are told what
- you can do next.
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- The next menu lets you select two different types of tests,
- multiple choice or fill in. Multiple choice lets you get
- acquainted with the vocabulary. Fill in really tests your
- knowledge of the vocabulary.
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- The next menu lets you select the direction of the translation
- test. Your choices are obvious.
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- Taking the test is also obvious. If you have chosen the multiple
- choice test then press the number of the answer you select. For a
- fill in test, type your answer and press <Enter>. When you have
- to fill in an answer in Spanish, the bottom of the screen will tell
- you which function keys to press to print the characters that are
- not on the keyboard.
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- Pressing <Esc> always takes you to the next previous menu. You
- can change the type of test or the direction of translation at
- any time. While you can switch back and forth, the program will
- test you on all words and phrases in both directions. When you
- are finished with all the vocabulary in one direction the program
- will change to the other direction, having told you about this
- change at the bottom of your screen.
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- After you have finished the test, the program will take you back
- to the first test menu. You can select another file for testing,
- look at your results, or retest yourself on wrong answers. Unless
- you have a perfect score, press <2>. You can look at your results
- on the screen, print the results, or do both.
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- Either before or after you look at the results you can retest
- yourself. Of course, the retest option only tests you on the
- words and phrases that you missed. Other than that the retest
- option works just like the test option.
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- PRINTING
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- Choose a printer. If you have an HP or Epson printer or a
- compatible which is capable of printing the IBM symbol set
- you can use it to print letters with proper accent marks
- already in place.
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- PRINTING THE INSTRUCTIONS
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- If you want to print out these instructions, select option <2>
- from the RUNME menu or type the following at the DOS prompt:
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- TYPE SPANISH.DOC > PRN
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- Then press <Enter>.
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- WINDOWS
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- If you want to run the programs under Windows, do the following:
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- 1.) Enter Windows.
- 2.) From Program Manager, open the File Menu.
- 3.) Choose "New". You will then see a box called "New Program
- Object".
- 4.) Choose "Program Group". Click "OK".
- 5.) Next you will see a box called "Program Group Properties".
- In the "Description" box type <Languages>. Click "OK". Don't
- worry about the "Group File" box; leave it blank.
- 6.) You will now see that you have a group called "Languages."
- 7.) Open the File Menu again. Choose "New" again. The "New
- Program Object" box will appear again.
- 8.) Choose "Program Item". Click "OK".
- 9.) The "Program Item Properties" box will appear. In the
- "Description" box type <Spanish>. Press the <Tab> key.
- 10.) In the "Command Line" box type <C:\Spanish\Spanish.exe>.
- (If you are using a different drive or directory, then make
- the appropriate substitutions.) Press the <Tab> key again.
- 11.) In the "Working Directory" box type <C:\Spanish> (or other
- appropriate directory.) Click "OK".
- 12.) You should see a DOS icon with the word "Spanish" underneath.
- Double click it to run the Spanish program.
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- copyright 1993 by
- Arthur Wells, Jr.
- 1171 Cragmont Ave.
- Berkeley, CA 94708
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