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- WrapUp is a Windows and Windows-for-Workgroups (3.0 - 3.1n) utility program.
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- Windows users have long enjoyed the fact that when you start Windows, you
- could have Windows automatically start any programs simply by putting the
- program's icon into the 'StartUp' group.
-
- Wouldn't it be great to have a similar 'ShutDown' group that right before
- Windows exited, it would run these 'WrapUp' type programs automatically for
- you? Imagine the uses for such a program...
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- You could automatically:
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- - Backup your PC's hard disk(s).
- - Log out of your PC network (LAN).
- - Synchronize your laptop PC's hard disk with your desktop
- PC's hard disk or visa versa.
- - Access your favorite online stock-quote system and retrieve
- your latest stock prices.
- - Send an email message.
- - Run your communications program and have it autodial your
- significant other, so you could pick up the telephone and
- tell him/her that you're on your way home.
- - Or any DOS program or batch file that can be run from within
- Windows.
- - Or anything else for that matter...
-
-
- How to Install and run WrapUp:
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- 1. Copy WrapUp.exe and WrapUp.doc to any area of any disk in your
- PC.
- 2. Start Windows in either 'Standard' or 'Enhanced' mode. WrapUp
- can not run in 'Real' mode.
- 3. Open your 'StartUp' group. Create a new icon for WrapUp. Don't
- run it yet...
- 4. Decide on the name for your new group that WrapUp will access
- when Windows starts to exit. We recommend the name 'ShutDown'.
- If you want any name other than 'ShutDown', you must tell
- WrapUp the name of your group by appending to WrapUp's command
- line, (open WrapUp's Program Properties dialog box by pressing
- Alt-Enter when WrapUp's icon is highlighted) the name of the
- shutdown group. For example, if you want your shutdown group
- to be called "My Shut Group", WrapUp's command line would be:
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- wrapup.exe /g"My Shut Group"
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- The quotes are only required when there are spaces in your
- group name. The group name is not case sensitive.
- 5. Move or copy your favorite programs into your new shutdown
- group.
- 6. Restart Windows.
- 7. Observe that WrapUp is running.
- 8. Exit Windows. You'll get the familiar Windows "Are you sure
- you want to close" dialog box. Say YES. WrapUp will then wake
- up, and ask you via a dialog box, if you want to close all of
- your currently running desktop programs, and then it will
- execute all of the programs in your shutdown group. Saying YES
- will do the above. Saying NO, will simply exit Windows. Saying
- CANCEL, will abort the exiting of Windows. You may override
- the default operation of WrapUp so that it won't present you
- with the above dialog box by appending a /N to the command
- line. In this mode, upon detecting Windows starting to exit,
- WrapUp will automatically close your desktop programs and then
- execute all of your shutdown group programs.
- 9. When you are finally ready to exit Windows, exit Windows. This
- time, WrapUp will not intervene (since it already executed
- your shutdown programs) and you will truly exit Windows.
-
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- Notes:
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- Upon detecting Windows starting to exit, WrapUp closes all of your
- desktop programs so that after it then executes the programs in
- your shutdown group, it will be easy to determine which programs
- you need to deal with. They're the only programs left executing on
- your desktop.
-
- LAN administrators can easily manage WrapUp by simply insuring that
- the proper shutdown group (GRP) file is present for proper
- operation. If the user is already running Windows in a LAN
- environment, then the proper group files are already present and no
- extra effort will be required. Please remember that one copy of
- WrapUp must be purchased for each and every user of WrapUp.
-
- You can control the execution order of both your StartUp and
- ShutDown group's programs by modifying their GRP files. TNT's
- Grp2Ini program can make it easy for you to do this.
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- WrapUp memorizes the contents of your shutdown group when you first
- run WrapUp. If you modify your shutdown group's contents while
- WrapUp is running, then WrapUp will not detect these changes. In
- this case, you'll need to terminate WrapUp and then re-execute it
- so that it will re-examine the new contents of your shutdown group.
- This WrapUp behavior is due to limitations in Windows.
-
- Non Windows Program Manager users (such as Norton DeskTop) must
- modify WrapUp's command line with the /Pxxxx option so that WrapUp
- can correctly access the contents of the shutdown group. In order
- to do this, you must issue a WrapUp File-Modules pull-down menu
- command to see a list of desktop programs and their module names.
- Identify the name of your program manger program and its module.
- This module must be entered on WrapUp's command line as a /P
- option. For example, Program Manager's module name is PROGMAN.
-
-
- Command line syntax: WrapUp [/N] [/Gxxx] [/Pxxx]
-
- Note: At least one space must appear in between each switch.
-
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- WrapUp is NOT freeware. Only unregistered evaluation versions of
- WrapUp may be freely distributed as shareware. Registered (paid
- for) versions of WrapUp may NOT be shared.
-
- If you are unsure as to if your copy of WrapUp is registered or
- not, examine the Help-About screen for your name. If it says
- "UNREGISTERED..." then your are executing an evaluation version of
- WrapUp.
-
- Evaluation versions of WrapUp will only execute one of your
- programs that appear in your startup group. The remaining programs
- will not be executed, however for each remaining program, WrapUp
- will present a message to you stating that your program would have
- run in a purchased version of WrapUp.
-
- If you like this program, send $29 dollars plus $5 shipping and
- handling for a single user license. Multi-user and site licenses
- are available. Upon receipt of payment, a registered version will
- be shipped to you. Registered users will be notified of future
- versions.
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- Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 4.4
- 430 Canyon Woods Place Suite A
- San Ramon, Ca. 94583
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