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- ARC-Manager Version 1.1A - AM_READ.ME
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- ARC-Manager is donated to the public domain without restriction.
- You may give, sell, benefit from this program as much as
- possible.
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- No special requirements are made by ARC-Manager, save a certain
- pre-requisite hardware compatibility to the IBM standard
- imposed by direct screen writes.
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- The only other requirement is that the environment variable
- "COMSPEC" be SET prior to loading ARC-Manager, as this
- program locates and loads COMMAND.COM based on that
- specification.
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- ARC-Manager employs (and was inspired by) other excellent
- public domain (shareware) utilities. These include:
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- Phil Katz's PKARC and PKXARC, Vern Buerg's ARCF and XONE,
- SH Smith's ARCTV and Paul Nance's ARCTOOLs. These authors
- have all made significant contributions well beyond that of
- this modest front-end program.
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- Unlike most menu/shell programs, ARC-Manager is not designed
- simply to provide a menu structure for inexperienced users.
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- ARC-Manager facilitates the use of the the programs by
- allowing most all functions to be performed with just a few
- keypresses.
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- To use ARC-Manager, all the associated programs should be
- placed in a common directory. It is recommended that an
- environment variable called "COMPATH" be SET using DOS's
- SET command (SET COMPATH=X:\XXXXX) to point to this directory.
- (This can most easily be accomplished by placing the command
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT)
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- Also, you may optionally SET a standard working directory path
- for your ARC files using the environment variable "ARCPATH".
- This procedure is not required as you can specify (or over-ride)
- a directory path by including the path when specifying the name
- of the ARC file you are using.
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- Command line syntax for ARC-Manager is simply:
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- AM [path\arc_file_name[.ARC]] [text_color hilite_color]
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- Where text_color and hilite_color (integers) 0-15 are optional
- (ARC-Manager knows whether you are using a color or monochrome
- configuration, and sets it's defaults accordingly), and
- arc_file_name is also optional (although if not entered on
- the command line, or when requested, it must (obviously) be
- made known to ARC-Manager prior to performing any operations).
- This may be accomplished by selecting "N"ame from the start-up
- menu.
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- Invariably, the authors of the programs ARC-Manager employs
- (current versions of which, along with their documentation, are
- included in this archive) will update their programs, often
- including version numbers in the new filenames. ARC-Manager
- should have little trouble using such new versions as long as
- the authors do not alter existing command syntax. Simply
- rename the new versions to the default names itemized on
- ARC-Manager's start-up screen.
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- If you use ARC-Manager, and feel the authors of the programs
- ARC-Manager employs have made a contribution to your life
- at the keyboard, PLEASE consider making a contribution to
- those respective authors!
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