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- HOW TO USE THE MOO MENU SYSTEM
-
- 1. LAUNCHING PROGRAMS
-
- MOO is a menu system to help you launch programs.
-
- Click your mouse on the program that you want to run. Or
- highlight the program (using the arrow keys -- or typing the
- item's first letter), and then hit ENTER.
-
- If there's more items than fit on the screen, hit one of the
- keys listed at the bottom of the menu (- PgUp Home End PgDn +)
- to see more items. Or click on a key-name with your mouse.
- Or use your mouse to click or drag on the scrollbar.
-
- 2. MOO FILES
-
- MOO consists of some program/help files starting with "MOO,"
- plus any number of menu files ending in ".MOO" (like
- "MAINMENU.MOO"). Each menu file can hold 500 items. These
- files should be in some subdirectory on your PATH.
-
- There's "MOO for DOS" and "MOO for Windows." Either can set up
- MOO menus for your programs, or run programs from existing MOO
- menus. Both use the same menu format.
-
- MOO for DOS uses files MOO1.EXE and MOO2.BAT (don't rename
- either), a startup file (usually called MOO.BAT), and three help
- files that display within MOO (MOO.DOC, MOO-ED.DOC, and
- MOO-LITE.DOC). To load or create a MOO menu from the DOS
- prompt, enter "MOO" followed by the menu name (1 to 8 characters
- -- you may omit ".MOO"). Entering "MOO" alone is the same as
- typing "MOO MAINMENU"; this loads MAINMENU.MOO.
-
- MOO for Windows uses files MOOW.EXE, MOOWEDIT.EXE, MOOW.HLP,
- and MOOWEDIT.HLP (don't rename the last three). You can start
- MOOW.EXE from Windows in the normal ways; you can install it on
- the Program Manager, for example, or double-click on it from
- the Windows File Manager. Run "MOOW MENUNAME" to load a
- specific menu.
-
- You're now reading MOO.DOC. The three DOC files focus on MOO
- for DOS. For info on MOO for Windows, start MOOW.EXE from
- Windows.
-
- MOO comes with two sample MOO menus to explore (MAINMENU.MOO and
- SAMPLE.MOO), three files for customizing MOO (MOO-FULL.BAT,
- MOO-LITE.BAT, and MOO-NET.BAT), a short FREERAM.COM to help you
- see the memory demands of MOO's execution modes, and a
- README.TXT file. MOO may produce temporary MOO$...BAT files
- for executing programs.
-
- 3. THE FILE MENU
-
- NEW MENU creates a blank untitled menu. Add the items that you
- want, and then save the menu to the disk.
-
- OPEN OLD MENU displays your MOO menus, and lets you open one.
-
- You might want to keep copies on your disk of MOO menus that you
- set up for friends, relatives, or clients. You can display the
- menus if they phone for help.
-
- SAVE MENU TO DISK (Alt-S) saves menu changes, so that you don't
- lose them. As you edit a menu, save it frequently.
-
- SAVE MENU AS saves the current menu under a different name. You
- can use this to make backups of your menus.
-
- REVERT TO MENU ON DISK cancels changes to a menu since your last
- save. Use this when you mess things up.
-
- FIND FILE (Alt-I) locates files on the hard disk, so you can add
- them to the menu.
-
- CREATE MENU AUTOMATICALLY puts all the programs on your disk
- into a menu. You can include DOS programs, or Windows programs,
- or both. MOO may sometimes guess wrong on whether a program
- runs under DOS or Windows.
-
- This gives a quick way to set up a hard disk. You'll have to
- clean up the menu a bit -- replacing "Wp" with a title like
- "WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS," for example.
-
- PRUNE OFF NONEXISTENT ITEMS marks items that refer to
- nonexistent programs or directories. You can then erase the
- items, or correct the program or directory names.
-
- Use this to check a menu's accuracy -- after you create it or
- after you've erased or relocated programs.
-
- EXIT PROGRAM (F5 or Alt-Q) quits the MOO menu program.
-
- 4. THE EDIT MENU
-
- MODIFY MENU ITEMS (Alt-M) lets you add, modify, or drop menu
- items. DEFAULT MODE changes execution modes. For more info,
- pick "How to edit menu items" from the "Help" menu.
-
- SWITCH TO LIMITED MENUS turns off options that modify MOO menus.
- Use this to make MOO easier for novice users -- or to keep
- children or employees from changing menus.
-
- You can start MOO from the DOS prompt in three ways. Entering
- "MOO-FULL" puts you into full-menu mode. "MOO-LITE" puts you
- into limited-menu mode. And "MOO-NET" puts you into a
- limited-menu mode for network use which gives each user an
- individual temporary MOO$...BAT file for executing programs.
-
- To have the "MOO" command from DOS start in one of these ways,
- copy "MOO-FULL.BAT" or "MOO-LITE.BAT" or "MOO-NET.BAT" to
- overwrite "MOO.BAT." You can rename this startup file to
- whatever you like (e.g., "MENU.BAT").
-
- If you don't want to add the MOO-directory to your PATH, you can
- put the startup file (e.g., MOO.BAT) in some directory on your
- path, and then add commands to switch drive and directory (e.g.,
- "C:" and "CD \MOO") after its third line. Or you can switch to
- the MOO-directory before starting MOO.
-
- SET PASSWORD FOR USING FULL MENUS lets you require that only
- users who know your password be allowed to switch to full menus.
- Use this (with the MOO-LITE or MOO-NET sign on) to provide
- security against the menus begin modified. For even greater
- security, remove the MOO-FULL.BAT, MOO.DOC, and MOO-ED.DOC files
- from the disk -- or make your MOO menu files read-only.
-
- 5. THE ADAPT MENU
-
- This has eleven options for customizing menu appearance, sound
- effects, the screen blanker, etc. MOO for Windows has further
- options (e.g., font and Windows colors) for how the same menu
- displays under MOO for Windows.
-
- 6. THE HELP MENU
-
- HOW TO USE THIS PROGRAM (F1) displays the MOO.DOC file that
- you're now reading.
-
- HOW TO EDIT MENU ITEMS (F2) displays the MOO-ED.DOC file.
-
- ABOUT MOO gives an "About" box.
-
- If you're in limited-menu mode, the first option will display
- MOO-LITE.DOC, and the second option won't exist.
-
- You can modify these MOO...DOC files, if you save them in a text
- (ASCII) format and keep under 8000 bytes. You can use
- MOO-LITE.DOC to tell users about the programs on the computer,
- hours of operation, who to contact in case of trouble, etc.
-
- Or you could print these files (enter "COPY MOO*.DOC PRN" from
- the DOS prompt) and then erase them.
-
- 7. TECHNICAL DETAILS
-
- I wrote MOO 3.1 in Borland's Turbo Pascal. I used Teddy
- Matsumoto's DIET to compress MOO1.EXE. MOO for DOS requires DOS
- 3.0 or later, and 200-K available RAM (but can use 0-K RAM when
- running a program). MOO for Windows MOO requires Windows 3.0 or
- later (standard or enhanced mode only), and about 60-K available
- RAM (plus 150-K more RAM when editing menus).