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- | Morton Utilities |
- | !!! READ ME FIRST !!! |
- | |
- | For people (like me) who don't read manuals. |
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- You should have the following files:
-
- MU.COM - Morton Utilities program.
- MUCONFIG.COM - Morton Utilities configuration program.
- MU.HLP - Morton Utilities program help.
- MUCONFIG.HLP - Morton Utilities configuration program help.
- MANUAL.DOC - Morton Utilities documentation.
- INVOICE.DOC - Morton Utilities registration invoice.
- README.DOC - Quick-Start instructions.
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- Run MUCONFIG to configure the program.
- Run MU to load the program.
-
- Highlight any feature or option you want more information about
- in either program and press "F1" to receive detailed information
- and instructions.
-
- NOTE: All Morton Utilities features are accessible from the DOS
- prompt and/or batch files. This allows Morton Utilities to be
- controlled either in part or totally from DOS and/or batch files.
- See manual for details.
-
- NOTE: To elliminate the use of DOS memory, Morton Utilities can
- be loaded into either expanded or high memory. See manual for
- details.
-
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- | Morton Utilities Features |
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- Video Features
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- o Video turbo increases video speed from 10 to 80 percent.
- o Screen blanker protects your monitor from phosphor burn-in.
- o VGA dimmer allows you to control the brightness of your VGA
- display.
- o Cursor protection allows you to select your favorite cursor
- size and not worry about programs changing it.
- o Cursor display will display the current cursor location
- continually in the upper right corner of the screen.
- o Border color protection allows you to select your favorite
- border color and not worry about programs changing it.
- o Intensity selection allows you to see 16 background colors
- instead of 8.
- o Redisplay up to 5 pages of text that has scrolled off the
- screen.
-
- Disk Features
- =============
-
- o Encrypt/Decrypt confidential files thus scrambling them from
- prying eyes using up to a 10 character password.
- o Easily clean your floppy disk drives (using drive cleaning
- systems) without having to stop-watch them.
- o Format floppy disks, optionally while you work on your
- computer doing other things.
- o Instantly park your hard disks to avoid unnecessary crashes.
- o Protect your hard disks from being inadvertently reformatted
- by others.
- o On-screen disk light lets those of us who have our computers
- under our desks know when our hard/floppy disks are being
- accessed.
- o Select whether all data written to disk/diskette is verified
- and keep programs from changing your mind.
-
- Printer Features
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-
- o Easily send your printer control strings to turn desired
- printer features on/off.
- o Eject the last page of your print job when your printer is
- too lazy to do the same.
- o Control DOS's PRINT spooler program to view print queue,
- submit files to the queue, and cancel files from printing.
- o Print text files that contain the box characters when your
- printer doesn't support them.
- o Use the "PrtSc" key to print only what you want of the
- screen.
- o Have your "Print Screen" eject from the printer when done
- printing.
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- Keyboard Features
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-
- o Select your favorite keyboard typematic rate/delay and
- don't worry about programs changing it.
- o Keyboard click provides a clicking sound when keys are
- pressed or released for those of us who suffer with mushy
- keyboards.
- o Disable "Ctrl-C" and "Ctrl-Break" when it might be
- necessary to keep users from breaking out of programs.
- o Use your "Scroll Lock" key as a pause key to keep things
- from scrolling off the screen.
- o Password lock your keyboard for those times when you might
- want to leave the office but you don't want anyone
- disturbing your work.
- o Easily enter 6 types of box characters inside your
- applications to draw boxes, borders, flowcharts, etc.
- o Have the current status of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and
- Scroll Lock keys continually displayed in the upper right
- corner of the screen.
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- Clock Features
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-
- o Have the current date and time continually displayed in the
- upper right corner of the screen.
- o Set an alarm to go off at a specific time.
- o Have an audible chime announce the new hour.
- o Date Stamp allows you to easily enter the current date in
- your applications.
- o Time Stamp allows you to easily enter the current time in
- your applications.
-
- Other Features
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-
- o Do something else while your modem redials a busy BBS or
- other modem number.
- o Mouse emulation allows you to use your mouse in programs
- that don't directly support it.
- o Turn your computer's speaker off for late quiet nights.
- o Turn the noisy DOS BELL sound into a soft low one.
- o Confirm reboot will confirm your hasty decision to reboot
- the computer.
- o Replace DOS's "Abort, Retry, Fail" prompt with one better.
- o Slow your computer down for older games which run just
- too fast.
- o Save and load your CMOS configuration data because your
- batteries ARE going to fail.
- o Save all your favorite settings to a setup file which
- can be loaded at any time to restore them.
- o Uninstall Morton Utilities from memory.
- o Control all Morton Utilities features from the DOS
- command line and/or batch files.