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- StartupScreen by
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- Version 3.10. Mike Mezaros
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- Released 7/30/91
-
- Full documentation for StartupScreen is provided in the included Windows
- help file. This file just contains a few odds and ends, etc. I would
- have named it READ.ME or README.TXT, but how many of those can you have?
-
-
- INVENTORY
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-
- This archive should've included:
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- STARTUP.EXE - The actual program.
- STARTUP.HLP - The Windows help file.
- STARTUP.TXT - This file.
-
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- VISUAL BASIC
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-
- This program is written in Microsoft Visual Basic. Therefore, it can
- only be used in Windows' Standard or Enhanced modes, and requires the
- royalty-free Visual Basic runtime DLL. This DLL is widely available,
- and free... It is available on CompuServe in the Microsoft Languages
- Forum (GO MSLANG) in library #6, and on GEnie in the IBM PC RoundTable
- (IBMPC), as VBRUN.ZIP.
-
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- SETTING A DEFAULT DIRECTORY
- ---------------------------
-
- Windows 3.0 doesn't provide an easy way to set a default directory for
- your programs... For example, let's say that you keep all of your
- graphics files in C:\GRAPHICS, and all of your Windows applications in
- C:\WINAPPS. There's no simple way to have a Windows program default to
- your C:\GRAPHICS directory, without actually moving the program.
-
- StartupScreen allows you to set its default directory. In an early
- beta release of StartupScreen 3.10, this type of information could be
- set from within the program and was saved in an .INI initialization
- file. In this, the final release, it is handled through a command
- line argument.
-
- So, in the Program Manager (or whatever replacement you use), add the
- name of the directory you want StartupScreen to default to to the command
- line. (If it looks like I have too many to's, read it again.)
-
- For example, if it currently reads...
-
- C:\WINAPPS\STARTUP.EXE
-
- and you want it to default to C:\GRAPHICS, change it to...
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- C:\WINAPPS\STARTUP.EXE C:\GRAPHICS
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-
- Z-NET PC INTERNATIONAL ONLINE MAGAZINE
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-
- If you're interested in keeping up on the latest news in the PC world,
- be sure to check out Z-Net PC. Z-Net PC is an online magazine - in
- other words, you download it, and read it in your favorite word processor
- or text editor, etc. It is released bi-weekly, and at absolutely no
- cost to you (although normal connect charges apply if you download it
- from an online service).
-
- The issues are available on CompuServe in the IBM Applications Forum
- (GO IBMAPP), and GEnie in the IBM PC RoundTable (IBMPC).
-
- Just search on "ZNET" to find the latest issue.
-
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- *the end*
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