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- File Manager StepUp v.2.0 for Windows 3.1 and Windows for
- Workgroups 3.11 - dramatically improves File Manager. Provides
- standard FM's dialog boxes with additional useful elements
- ('history' lists, 'verify' check boxes, etc.); shows the dialogs
- with 3D effects; brings customizable Quick Menu and Execute Menu;
- allows to easily view, edit, or print arbitrary files; contains
- useful utilities (calculating the size of dirs including their
- subdirs, etc.). FM StepUp makes the File Manager an actually user
- friendly application. Try it - and you won't believe you worked
- without FM StepUp before. The way software should be!
-
- "FM StepUp ... does all manner of clever things. It adds
- 3D effects (a la Word 6 or Excel 5) to the dialog boxes,
- gives you a command-line history in all sorts of places
- ... and provides right-click pop-up menus in a variety of
- useful places ... FM StepUp is certainly good enough to
- try."
-
- Windows User UK, June 1994
-
- Long description:
- -----------------
-
- This is a MAJOR upgrade to the versions 1.x. If you tried any
- of the previous versions of the FM StepUp and did not like it by
- any reason, try this one - we hope you'll change your mind!
-
- SPECIAL NOTE for those who do not like registration reminders and
- love to evaluate shareware for long time: unlike many other
- shareware producers, we are using a passive reminder in this
- version -- you don't have to press any key or wait for some time
- to turn it off.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE for Windows for Workgroups users:
- if you tried and had given up the FM StepUp ver.1.x because of the
- conflict between FM StepUp and Toolbar, please take a look at the
- new version. That bug has been fixed and they (FM StepUp and
- Toolbar) enjoy each the other now.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE for network system administrators:
- now you can restrict File Manager in the same way as you do it for
- Program Manager - through [restrictions] section in a file.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE for registered users:
- thanks to your support, we have found the possibility to make the
- UPGRADE FROM ANY PREVIOUS VERSION OF FM STEPUP to version 2.0
- FREE! If you are a registered user of the FM StepUp 1.x, you will
- receive new disk from us shortly.
-
- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- // Welcome to File Manager StepUp!
- //
- // the File Manager Extender
- // for Microsoft(R) Windows(tm) 3.1, 3.11
- // and Windows for Workgroups(tm) 3.11
- //
- // Version 2.0
- // Shareware edition
- //
- // Copyright (c) 1994, ChaoSoft.
- // All rights reserved.
- //
- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- -----------------
-
- 1.1. About FM StepUp
- 1.2. What's new in version 2.0
- 1.3. Features of the FM StepUp 2.0
-
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-
- 1.1 About File Manager StepUp
- -----------------------------
-
- File Manager StepUp (or, briefly, FM StepUp) is a utility that
- dramatically improves File Manager. Instead of replacing File
- Manager, FM StepUp simply makes it better. When you install FM
- StepUp, additional commands are added to File Manager's menus, and
- existing commands are enhanced.
-
- FM StepUp makes the File Manager an actually user friendly
- application. With FM StepUp installed in your system you will
- perform various file management operations easier and faster.
-
- FM StepUp enhances standard dialog boxes of the File Manager,
- providing them with additional useful features (history lists,
- remembering you previous commands; 'verify' check boxes; 'browse'
- buttons; etc.).
-
- FM StepUp allows you to combine most frequently used commands of
- File Manager into Quick Menu, so that you can access them just
- pressing the right button of your mouse.
-
- FM StepUp makes your able to easily create, view, edit, or print
- arbitrary files, not necessarily associated with an application,
- and you can assign your favorite viewer or editor to do this.
-
- FM StepUp provides you with some unique or hard-to-find commands,
- allowing you, for example, to figure out the total size of a
- directory, including all its subdirectories; change date or time
- of the file; run the default screen saver whenever you want it to;
- etc.
-
- FM StepUp allows you to add your own commands to the File Manager
- and easily execute them. You may use this possibility to launch
- frequently used applications (such as Control Panel or Clipboard
- viewer) directly from File Manager menu, or to perform
- preprogrammed operations over files selected in a File Manager's
- window (UnZip or UnArj, for example).
-
- If you are a network administrator, FM StepUp can help you to
- restrict some of the File Manager's capabilities (in almost the
- same way as you do it for the Program Manager), allowing you to
- prevent your users from performing potentially dangerous or
- undesirable commands.
-
- After all, FM StepUp is highly customizable. You are in charge of
- almost every aspect of its functionality - from the size of the
- history lists to contents of the Quick Menu and Execute Menu.
-
- Try it - and you won't believe you worked without FM StepUp
- before.
-
- The way software should be!
-
- 1.2. What's new in the version 2.0
- ----------------------------------
-
- A LOT!
-
- New features (please see detailed list below), new documentation,
- new installation utility, new registration encouragement policy.
-
- No new bugs (hopefully!).
-
- The only old thing is the price. Yes, due to success of the FM
- StepUp ver.1.x and support of our registered users, we were able to
- significantly improve FM StepUp and keep the same low registration
- fee.
-
- 1.3. Features of the FM StepUp v.2.0
- ------------------------------------
-
- The following is the list of features the File Manager obtains
- after installing the FM StepUp. The signs 'NEW!' and 'UPDATED:'
- are used to mark new or updated features in comparison with
- previous versions of the FM StepUp.
-
- UPDATED:
- 1. 14 standard dialog boxes of the File Manager are now
- updated by the FM StepUp (and you are able to prevent any
- of them from updating, if you like!). Almost ALL the edit
- controls of the dialog boxes are provided with history
- lists keeping track of the text you typed into edit boxes.
- With FM StepUp you are able to recall any of them and edit
- it, if necessary, without typing all the text from
- scratch. (Before version 2.0 only a few specific dialog
- boxes were enhanced with the history lists).
-
- 2. The following dialog boxes: Move, Copy, and Copy Disk, are
- provided with the 'Verify' check boxes which enable you to
- easily set the verify mode on or off (with the same effect
- as entering command VERIFY ON/OFF at the DOS command
- prompt) before performing the operations.
-
- NEW! 3. The Run dialog box is supplied with two additional
- buttons, 'Command' and 'Argument', allowing you to browse
- your disks and choose a file to run or supply its filename
- as an argument for the command line.
-
- 4. The Move and Copy dialog boxes are provided with an
- additional button, 'Browse', in case you forgot the name of the
- directory to copy/move files in.
-
- 5. Print dialog is now provided with:
- 1) check box 'Copy to PRN' which makes you able to
- quickly print plain ASCII files, not necessarily
- associated with applications, or binary files obtained
- with using the 'Print to file' (or the like) option
- provided by many applications;
-
- NEW! 2) check box 'Eject', allowing you to specify whether to
- eject the last page or not, that is convenient for some
- printers;
-
- NEW! 3) edit box 'Copies', where you can specify the number
- of copies to make.
-
- The controls 2) and 3) above are activated and used only
- when using the 'Copy to PRN' mode.
-
- 6. The main menu of the File Manager is getting a new item,
- StepUp, containing a number of additional commands:
-
- New File - to instantaneously create a new file;
-
- View File - to view the contents of the file currently
- selected in the File Manager Directory Window
- using the Default Viewer;
-
- Edit File - to edit the contents of a selected file using
- the Default Editor. You are specifying the
- applications to be used as Default Editor and
- Viewer in the 'Preferences' dialog box of the FM
- StepUp;
-
- NEW! Execute - to perform a user-defined action on the
- currently selected file or to launch an
- application. By default it contains the following
- commands:
-
- Control Panel - to launch the Windows Control
- Panel from the File Manager;
-
- Clipboard - to run the Windows Clipboard viewer;
-
- DOS Prompt - to start the DOS session from the
- File Manager;
-
- PIF Editor - to run the PIF Editor;
-
- UnZip - to run the PKUNZIP utility for the
- currently selected file (assuming it's a
- ZIP archive);
-
- UnArj - to perform the 'ARJ x' command for the
- currently selected file (assuming it's an
- archive produced by the ARJ utility);
-
- You can change the commands of the 'Execute' menu,
- add new commands and otherwise customize it using
- the 'Preferences' dialog box of the FM StepUp.
-
- Special - to perform some useful operations:
-
- UPDATED: Total Size - to calculate the total length and space
- occupied for all the selected files and
- directories, including all the subdirectories; the
- directory to be analyzed can be selected in either
- Directory or Tree window of the File Manager;
-
- UPDATED: Change Date/Time - to change the date and/or time of
- all the selected files (not for just one file);
-
- NEW! Run Screen Saver - to launch the default Windows
- Screen Saver (usually specified with the Control
- Panel) any time you want to leave your machine (if
- you are using a screen saver with the password
- protection - you don't have to wait 5 min. to
- activate it!);
-
- Return to DOS,
- Restart Windows,
- Reboot System - name says it all;
-
- Preferences - to customize FM StepUp:
-
- UPDATED: - change the Default Viewer and/or Editor; you can now
- browse the directories to find the application you
- wish to use as the Default Viewer or Editor;
-
- NEW! - set up the desired way of dealing with the associated
- files;
-
- - specify the size of the 'history' lists;
-
- NEW! - choose the way of displaying new icon for the File
- Manager;
-
- UPDATED: - specify new name for the FM StepUp's menu item in the
- File Manager's main menu;
-
- NEW! - customize the Quick Menu;
-
- NEW! - customize the Execute Menu;
-
- UPDATED: - set up the desired appearance of the dialog boxes:
-
- (a) choose which standard dialog boxes of the File
- Manager (out of 14) you want to be updated by
- the FM StepUp (by maintaining history lists,
- verify check boxes, etc.);
-
- (b) specify the using the 3-D effects when
- displaying the controls;
-
- (c) specify the using the extended user interface
- when working with history lists;
-
- UPDATED:Help - to get detailed information on how to use the
- FM StepUp.
-
- About - to get information about the version of the FM
- UPDATED: StepUp and the person it's registered to
- (registered version only).
-
-
- 7. The right button of the mouse is now used to activate the
- Quick Menu - a set of frequently used commands, so that
- you don't have to spend time finding them in the File
- Manager's menu now. Starting from version 2.0, the Quick
- Menu consists of two portions:
-
- Top portion: the fixed set of the File Manager commands,
- collected in one place for your convenience. You
- UPDATED: can customize that part using the Preference
- dialog box. Any commands can be made easily
- accessible, even those created by you to be used
- in the 'Execute' menu;
-
- NEW! Bottom portion: the history list of the commands used. The
- most frequently used commands are accumulated here
- automatically and can be easily re-used.
-
- NEW! You can also specify the most convenient way of choosing
- commands from the Quick Menu - with the left or right
- button of mouse!
-
- UPDATED:
- 8. All the dialog boxes of the File Manager are now displayed
- with 3D effects (like that of Excel and some other
- applications). The bug which displayed improper 3D effects
- with some video drivers has been fixed.
-
- NEW! 9. FM StepUp comes with new cool icon for File Manager and
- you can specify its using with the Preferences dialog box;
-
- NEW! 10. For Network System Administrators:
-
- With the File Manager StepUp v.2.0 you can restrict the
- user's access to some of the features of the File Manager.
- (Microsoft has made it possible to restrict the Program
- Manager but somehow forgot to do it for the File Manager!)
- With the FM StepUp, you can place the file FMSTEPUP.SYS in
- the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, make the [Restriction]
- section in that file, and add the following boolean
- entries to it (standard rules for specifying boolean
- entries of the win.ini and system.ini files apply here;
- particularly, 1/ON/TRUE/YES can be used interchangeably to
- turn the mode on, 0/OFF/FALSE/NO - to turn it off):
-
- NoShowHiddenSysFiles - to disable the 'Show Hidden/System
- Files' check box of the 'By File Type' dialog box;
-
- NoChangeFileAttrib - to disable the 'Attributes' group of
- the 'Properties' dialog box (and prevent users from
- changing attributes of files)
-
- NoRun - to disable 'OK' button of the 'Run' dialog box and
- prevent users from running applications using it;
-
- NoSaveFMSettings - to prevent users from saving the
- current settings of the File Manager on exit;
-
- NoCloseFileManager - to prevent user from closing the File
- Manager (with some restrictions);
-
- NoChangeFileDateTime - to disable 'OK' button on the
- Change Date/Time dialog and prevent users from
- modifying these file attributes;
-
- NoUninstallStepUp - to prevent user from uninstalling the
- FM StepUp (with some restrictions);
-
- NoSaveStepUpSettings - to prevent users from saving the
- current settings of the FM StepUp on exit;
-
- NoCustomizeExecMenu - to prevent users from customizing
- the 'Execute' menu of the FM StepUp;
-
- NoCustomizeQuickMenu - to prevent users from customizing
- the Quick Menu of the FM StepUp;
-
- NoChangeViewerEditor - to prevent users from changing the
- default viewer and editor in the Preferences
- dialog box;
-
- For more information please see on-line Help.
-
- Thank you for trying File Manager StepUp!
-
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-
- ORDER / REGISTRATION FORM
- ________________________________________________________________
- |[_] Yes! Send me just 1 package of the File Manager StepUp
- | software (the latest version) for my own use only, on the
- P| [_] 3.5" or [_] 5.25" disk for $19.95.
- l|
- e| [_] I've registered one of the previous versions of
- a| FM StepUp and, therefore, I am entitled to 50%
- s| discount, that is I am paying only $9.97 !
- e|---------------------------------------------------------------
- |[_] Yes! I and my friend(s) want to save. Send me ____ (more
- c| than one) packages of the FM StepUp software for only
- h| $14.95 each. We need ____ 3.5" and/or ____ 5.25" disks.
- e| I'm enclosing the list of my friends' names and addresses;
- c| all of them become the registered users of FM StepUp.
- k|---------------------------------------------------------------
- |[_] Yes! I would like to order the File Manager StepUp software
- o| under a site license arrangement for ____ (more than 5)
- n| users, allowing my company or organization to legally
- e| install the FM StepUp on multiple computers. Send me the
- | installation disk of the [_] 3.5" or [_] 5.25" format.
- | The payment $9.95 for each user is enclosed.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Payment amount for File Manager StepUp software
- (depending on your choice above): . . . . . . . . . . $ _________
- Maine residents add 6% sales tax: . . . . . . . . . . $ _________
- Shipping & Handling: (Continental U.S.: $1.00,
- AK,HI,Canada,Mexico: $2.00, International: $4.00) . . $ _________
-
- TOTAL: $ _________
-
- My [_] check, [_] Money order (payable to Chaosoft, U.S. funds,
- U.S. bank) or [_] U.S. currency is enclosed:
-
- NAME: _________________________ Phone: (_____)_______________
- ADDRESS: COMPANY:
- Email address:
-
-
-
- Mail to: ChaoSoft, P.O.Box 43, Old Town, ME 04468-0043
-
- Thank you for registering FM StepUp!
-
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