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- Appendix G
-
- More About DESQview's Files
-
- When you install DESQview, the installation program creates the DV directory
- on your hard disk and installs all DESQview's files in this directory. This
- appendix summarizes the files on the master DESQview diskette and the files
- in the DV directory after you've installed DESQview.
-
- The following files occur on the master DESQview diskette, but don't appear
- in the DV directory after DESQview is installed:
-
- ~Item~ The *.INS and INSTALL.EXE files used to install DESQview.
-
- The following files are copied to, or created in, the DV directory and
- constitute the complete set of files DESQview needs to run:
-
- ~Item~ The files that constitute DESQview itself:
-
- ~dash~ The DV.EXE file, which is the DESQview program itself.
-
- ~dash~ The DVREG.COM file which holds your registration information.
-
- ~dash~ The DESQVIEW.DIR file, which contains all the information about the
- programs that appear on the Add a Program menu, and that's used by AUTOINST
- (see note 4 on page 18) to automatically install programs.
-
- ~dash~ The DESQVIEW.DVH file, which contains DESQview's Help information.
-
- ~dash~ The DESQVIEW.DVO file, which contains the information for the Open
- Window menu.
-
- ~Begin footnote~
-
- You should back up this file regularly, it contains information that's been
- customized to your particular system.
-
- ~End footnote~
-
- ~dash~ The DESQVIEW.DVS ~dagger~ file (if any), which contains all the
- scripts you've created on DESQview menus.
-
- ~dash~ The DVSETUP.DV ~dagger~ file, which contains the setup information
- determined by the DESQview Setup program.
-
- ~dash~ The QEXT.SYS file, which is a special driver that DESQview uses to
- load a 60K part of itself into exTENDed memory, if you have it (see Appendix
- B).
-
- ~dash~ The XDV.COM file, which contains a special loader that DESQview uses
- to load parts of itself into exPANDed memory, if you have it (see
- Installation Note 2, Page 18 and Appendix B).
-
- ~dash~ The *.DVR files, which are the drivers DESQview uses to configure
- itself for your hardware.
-
- ~Item~ The files that implement built-in DESQview features:
-
- ~dash~ The built-in DESQview programs themselves:
-
- CONVSCR.COM The Convert a Script program (see Appendix I).
- DOSSERV.COM The DOS Services program (see Chapter 4).
- INSTLAC.COM The file that runs Add a Program and Change A Program.
- MS.COM The Memory Status program (see Appendix B).
- DVSETUP.COM The DESQview setup program
- DVPAL.COM The DESQview Palette program.
- SETUP.BAT/SETUP.DVP The supporting DESQview Setup program files (see Appendix
- A).
-
- ~dash~ The AUTOINST.COM file, which is the program that automatically
- installs programs on a hard disk (see note 4 on page 18).
-
- ~dash~ The DVHERC.COM file, which is a program used to manage the screen for
- certain Hercules-compatible display adapter boards (see page 126).
-
- ~dash~ The SAMPLE.PLB and SAMPLE.COM files, which are the sample document and
- spreadsheet used in Chapter 2, Getting Started: A Tutorial, and the program
- that loads these documents.
-
- ~dash~ DVANSI.COM, the DESQview ANSI.SYS replacement, and the program to load
- it in a DESQview window, DEVICE.COM.
-
- ~dash~ In addition there may be a file named READ.ME on your DESQview
- disk(s), which would contain information not available when the manual was
- printed.
-
- ~Item~ The complete set of files DESQview keeps for each program:
-
- ~dash~ The xx-PIF.DVP file, which contains the DESQview Program Information
- File (DVP) for the program~dash~that is, the information on the Change a
- Program menu for the program (see Chapter 7, Changing a Program's
- Information).
-
-
- ~Begin footnote~
-
- You should back up this file regularly, it contains information that's been
- customized to your particular system.
-
- ~End footnote~
-
- ~dash~ The xx-SCRIP.DVS~dagger~ file (if any), which contains all the scripts
- (keystroke macros) you've created for the program using DESQview's Learn
- feature (see pages 89-91).
-
- ~dash~ The xx-LOAD.COM or xx-LOAD.EXE file (if any), which contains the
- custom DESQview "loader" that (usually) allows programs that write directly
- to the screen to run in small windows, and may overcome other program
- limitations or provide additional program capabilities~dash~such as the
- ability to use a mouse in the program (see page 112 and Appendix H).
-
- where xx are the keys used to select the program on the Open Window
- menu~dash~with one exception. The name of the loader used to load both Lotus
- 1-2-3 Release 2 and Symphony is LS-LOAD.COM.
-
- ~Item~ Also, the file DV.BAT is placed in the root directory of the hard disk
- or diskette on which you install DESQview so you can start up DESQview any
- time you want just by typing DV (assuming your default path includes the root
- directory).
-
- After you have used DESQview, you may also find files with a .BAK extension,
- which are backups of program information files, DVSETUP and script files.
- These files are created when you modify program information, setup
- information or DESQview scripts.
-
- If you are interested in the minimum configuration of files required to run
- DESQview, this is discussed, with various alternatives, in Appendix D, Using
- DESQview With a Floppy-Based System.
-
- The files for DESQview and DESQview 386 are the same; the code that is
- executed in either case, is different.
-