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- This is the Free version of Market Breaker 2000 - June 1995
- =============================================================
- Expires 4/11/95
- ===============
- This version was produced for PCPlus Magazine on 20/6/95. Due
- to publshing delays it will not appear till the Sept issue.
-
- Please note that Channel 4 are now regularly changing the number
- of sub-pages on pages 532 and 533. If you are using this with
- a teletext card you may have to alter the SHARES.SEQ file.
-
- Use the menu option Teletext|Edit Sequence File
- and change the lines which read
- 4,532,44,Adjust
- 4,533,45,Adjust
- change the numbers 44 and 45 to the actual number of subpages
- on pages 532 and 533 respectively. (Currently the adjust keyword
- is not working under all circumstances)
-
- Installation
- ============
- To install Marker Breaker put the disk in the floppy drive
- type:
-
- a:\setup (if in drive a:)
-
- whilst running Windows in the Program Manager File|Run menu option.
-
- Once installed Market Breaker will take up about 4.5Mbytes,
- but to run the installation you must have at least 8Mbytes
- free disk space whilst running Windows. If you do not have
- 8Mbytes of disk space then the installation program will give
- an error and terminate the installation.
-
- Market Breaker will install the following files on your hard
- disk:
-
- SLDATA.DAT a data file containing share data
- ALARM.DAT further data file
- MB2000.EXE the shares progam
- SHARES.HLP the full user guide
- AUTO.ICO the autoload icon
- MB2000.INI your registration details
- LOGFILE.OUT a record of your installation (look at this
- if the installation fails, you can delete it if
- the installation succeeds).
- BWCC.DLL this is a Borland DLL used by dialogs
- TLTXTLIB.DLL this is the Windows driver for the Microtext card
- HCF.DAT this is the TeleText font used by the Teletext window
- TELECHx.DEM there are 5 files where x is number 1 to 5 containing
- demonstration Teletext screens, Channel 5 is CNN
- Text Reuters service.
- SHARES.SEQ Commands for loading teletext pages
- INDICES.PAG Single Teletext page command file for Market Indices
- CONFIG.EXE For use with the Teletext Adapter if you want to do manual or
- automatic tuning or if you have an external adapter attached to a COM port.
- MTUNEDLL.DLL a Microtext program to do tuning
- TUNING_D.ATA a data file used by the above DLL.
-
- An additional file TELETEXW.INF will be created by the Market Breaker or Configuration program.
- See note below.
-
- The installation also creates a Market Breaker Program Manager
- group containing the following icons:
-
- Market Breaker Double click this to run the program
- Marker Breaker Auto Load Double click this to run the automatic
- share loading (see manual)
- Teletext Adapter Configuration Allows you to manual tune or configure for
- an external teletext adapter.
- User Guide the User Guide help file
- Read Me Double click to view this file
-
- For owners of the Purchased Market Breaker
- ==========================================
- Market Breaker is pre-registered with your name and address.
- Each program has a unique identification code. Do not give
- program to anyone else. If will be possible to find out
- the source of illegal copying of the program.
-
- Free Market Breaker can be distributed freely to any-one.
- ========================================================
-
- Please Note
- ===========
- The tuning information for the card is contained in either a file
- called TELETEXT.INF or TELETEXW.INF depending on the software you bought
- with your Microtext Teletext Card. The Microtext DOS software or the Teletext Card
- Configuration program must must be run before you run Market Breaker so that the
- Teletext Card can store the tuning data.
-
- Release 5.00 June 1995
- ======================
- Known faults with this release
-
- - Under some circumstances the full name in the first share gets corrupted
-
-