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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Intercept Arrange and Lockup ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Accelerator mnemonic keys:
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- F1
- Help
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- F3
- Exit
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- CTRL+C
- Configure
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- CTRL+B
- About
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- Help for INTERCPT
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Extended Help for INTERCPT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- This program intercepts and can optionally "disable" the icon ARRANGE function
- and/or the Desktop Lockup functions when they are chosen from the OS/2 menu.
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- Information is available for the following:
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- Overview of INTERCPT
- Running INTERCPT
- Configuration
- Keys
- Version History
- Registration
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Overview of INTERCPT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- OVERVIEW
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- How many times have you tried to bring up the OS/2 Desktop menu and been just a
- little too quick with the mouse button and ended up hitting Arrange by
- accident? If you have painstakingly placed your icons, you probably followed
- this by yelling "AARRRGGHHH!!!"
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- This program can intercept and optionally "disable" the icon ARRANGE function
- and/or the Desktop LOCKUP function when they are chosen from the pop-up menu.
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- The ARRANGE, function can be intercepted for all folders, or just for the
- desktop.
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- Disabling LOCKUP may be useful if you manage many generic PC's and you do not
- want the users setting their own Lockup passwords, or if the PC's will be used
- temporarily by people who won't be around afterwards to let you know what they
- set the password to. INTERCPT only intercepts the Lockup function when it is
- manually chosen from the pop-up menu. It does not intercept the automatic
- timeout invocation of Lockup. I find it helpful to have an "are you sure"
- prompt on the manual Lockup function since I usually hit it by mistake when
- trying to invoke Shutdown from the OS/2 Desktop Menu.
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- Help for INTERCPT
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Running INTERCPT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- RUNNING INTERCPT
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- The following files are needed for INTERCPT:
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- INTERCPT.EXE program executable
- INTERCPL.DLL program DLL
- INTERCPT.HLP online help
- INTERCPT.INI default initialization file
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- Ideally, these three files should be placed in the same directory. The DLL
- needs to be in a directory specified in CONFIG.SYS's LIBPATH statement. For
- online help and a default initialization configuration, the .HLP and .INI files
- need to be in the default directory.
- If you create a program object for INTERCPT, set the working directory to the
- one where these files reside.
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- To run INTERCPT at system initialization, place a program object for it in the
- OS/2 Startup Folder. INTERCPT cannot be run from the STARTUP.CMD since it
- needs information about the Desktop that is not yet available when the
- STARTUP.CMD is processed.
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- If you load the program and find that it does not intercept the Arrange and/or
- Lockup functions, check (and double check) the configuration values. Also
- verify that INTERCPT.DLL is in a directory path specified in CONFIG.SYS's
- LIBPATH statement. If the "Intercept Arrange" and "Intercept Lockup"
- checkboxes are checked 'on' and the functions are still not intercepted, try
- invoking the program with the parameter "/A". This tells INTERCPT to use an
- alternative method to gather some of the information it needs to set up the
- interception. If you use the /A, INTERCPT expects the OS/2 Desktop to be active
- at screen position 1,1 with no other windows at that location.
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- Help for INTERCPT
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Help for INTERCPT Configuration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- CONFIGURATION
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- Configuration options include choosing
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- o a prompt at the time the function is intercepted. This effectively adds a
- YES/NO option as in "do you want this ARRANGE and/or LOCKUP thing to happen".
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- o an audible indication after the function is intercepted
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- o a visual indication (message box) after the function is intercepted
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- Any, none, or all of the above methods can be used to indicate that the
- function was intercepted. Depending on the level of the user, it may be better
- to have some sort of indication so people running this program will not think
- their OS/2 desktop menu is broken when the ARRANGE and/or LOCKUP do not work.
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- Help for INTERCPT
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Version History ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- VERSION HISTORY
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- Version 1.0 February, 1993
- This version has been tested with OS/2 2.0 + Service Pak and with OS/2 2.1
- December beta.
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- I am fairly confident that the interception of the ARRANGE function will
- continue to work with later releases of OS/2, but I cannot absolutely guarantee
- the LOCKUP function. I will do my best to update the program if/when it
- becomes necessary.
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- Help for INTERCPT
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Registration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- REGISTRATION
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- I welcome any comments, suggestions, and/or bug reports. INTERCPT is
- distributed as-is, with no warranties involved.
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- You may give individual copies of the unregistered version INTERCPT to friends,
- associates, collegues, etc. for evaluation purposes, however, please include
- the files INTERCPT.EXE, INTERCPT.HLP, INTERCPT.INI, and INTERCPT.DOC without
- any modification.
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- If you use INTERCPT, please send a small donation of $20.00 so that I can prove
- to my husband that all the long hours I spend with my PC instead of with him
- are really worth something. Thank you.
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- Donna Campanella
- 508 Natalie Lane
- Norristown, PA 19401
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