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- ShortCut(tm)
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- Dana & Linda Jeffries
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- Mossy Rock Systems
- P.O. Box 420876
- Sacramento, CA 95841
- (916) 334-5542
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- (c) Copyright 1987 Mossy Rock Systems All Rights Reserved
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- START.DOC - INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- What is ShortCut? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- ShortCut's Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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- GETTING READY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Files on Your Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- What Files Are Needed to Run ShortCut? . . . . . . . . . 3
- Where to Start ShortCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Starting Up ShortCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Getting Out of ShortCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- TUTOR.DOC - GETTING ACQUAINTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- A Brief Look at the ShortCut Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Moving Around the ShortCut Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Putting ShortCut to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- View a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Switch to DOS Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Information on the ShortCut Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Mode Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Disk and Memory Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Additional System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Print a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Make a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Copying Files to a Subdirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Erasing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Moving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Copying Files to Another Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- A Tree Diagram of Your Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Remove a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Changing or Creating a Volume Label . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Shortcuts to Locating Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Searching for a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- Wildcard Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Setting Up a File Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Running a Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Pop Up ShortCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- For Hard Disk Users Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- A Summary of ShortCut Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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- DWINDOW.DOC - THE DIRECTORY WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- What is in the Directory Window? . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Viewing the Rest of Your Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Limit on Directory Window Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Additional File Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- SETUP.DOC - SETTING UP SHORTCUT YOUR WAY . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Using the Setup Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Setting Up the Edit Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Saving Your Setup Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Trying Out Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- Printer Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- User Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Entering Your Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Labeling Your Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Screen Display Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- BASIC to be used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Screen blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Refresh directory on return from DOS . . . . . . . . 9
- Confirm before erasing files . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Low disk space warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Expand keyboard buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Saving Your Current Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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- COMMND.DOC - USING THE COMMND COMMAND . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- The COMMND Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Editing the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Copy Filename to Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Command Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Entering Multiple Commands with COMMND . . . . . . . . . 3
- Default Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- REFER.DOC - SHORTCUT REFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Chime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Changing Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Colors, Changing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Command Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Command Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- Dcopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Default Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Disk Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- Display Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- DOS Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- DOS Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- Equipment Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- Erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Exit ShortCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Expanded Keyboard Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- File and Directory Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- File Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- Go to Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Labl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
- Locate File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
- Low Disk Space Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- Mark Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- Marking Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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- Memory Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Mkdir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- Pop Up ShortCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
- Printer Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
- Refresh Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
- Rename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
- Rmdir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
- Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
- Save Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
- Screen Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
- Screen Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
- Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
- Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
- Sorting Files in Directory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
- Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
- Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
- Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
- Verify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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- INTRODUCTION
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- What is ShortCut?
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- ShortCut is a DOS shell. Instead of the DOS prompt, you get
- a whole screen full of information about your system. Short-
- Cut makes using DOS and your computer easy and quick. This
- is a real boon to the befuddled novice.
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- Even you guys and gals who are DOS experts will appreciate
- that ShortCut nearly eliminates the need to type commands,
- path and filenames. We figure you are pretty much like us:
- our fingers don't always land on the right keys. ShortCut
- gets it right the first time - every time.
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- Suppose you want the DOS prompt anyway? ShortCut gives it to
- you. Only now the command line has full line editing capa-
- bilities. You can even recall your previous commands for
- editing.
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- ShortCut is also a RAM resident program. Suppose you are
- working with your word processor, spreadsheet, or data
- manager. Suddenly you realize you want to copy files to
- another disk, erase some files, create a new subdirectory, or
- some other common DOS task. Just pop up ShortCut, do what
- you need to do, and pop back directly to your application
- program.
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- We probably use the pop up feature most to change direc-
- tories. ShortCut makes it so easy to do this with its Tree
- diagram of your disk. You only need to "point" at the direc-
- tory to which you wish to change and press the Enter key or
- Space Bar.
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- Many programs today allow you to perform DOS functions.
- ShortCut provides a standardized way to do these things in
- every program.
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- ShortCut is also a simple menu program. You can put your own
- commands, batch, or program files on one of the Command Bars
- and start up your program or command with one keystroke.
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- ShortCut's Documentation
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- ShortCut's documentation is lengthy - not because ShortCut is
- hard to learn - but because it has so many features and we
- want to give you complete information so you get the most out
- of the program.
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- We have divided the material into several smaller files. All
- of them have the extension DOC. We suggest that you print
- TUTOR.DOC first. This file and the on-line help system (F1)
- will get you acquainted with ShortCut. After working through
- this material, you may decide ShortCut is for you. By
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- sending us your registration fee, we will in return send you
- the latest version of ShortCut along with its typeset manual,
- saving you wear and tear on your printer.
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- If you wish to examine more of ShortCut's documentation and
- explore additional features of the program, here is a guide
- to the contents of the remaining DOC files:
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- SETUP.DOC - tells you how to customize ShortCut.
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- DWINDOW.DOC - explains how files and directories are
- displayed in the Directory Window.
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- COMMND.DOC - explains ShortCut's CMMND (F10) command -
- something you power users will not want to miss.
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- REFER.DOC - describes each ShortCut feature in detail.
- The features are listed alphabetically one to a
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- A simple way to send any documentation file to your printer
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- COPY [FILENAME] PRN
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- For example, COPY REFER.DOC PRN.
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- The remaining information in this section tells you about the
- ShortCut files, how to start ShortCut up, and how to quit.
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- GETTING READY
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- You should make a copy of the ShortCut files for backup
- purposes and for distributing ShortCut to friends, on bul-
- letin boards, and to local PC user groups. Please do not
- distribute a version of ShortCut you have customized for
- yourself.
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- If you choose to use our tutorial in TUTOR.DOC for getting
- acquainted with ShortCut and you have a hard disk, put
- ShortCut's files in your root directory. Later we will have
- you put your ShortCut files in a special subdirectory of its
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- Files on Your Diskette
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- You will find several files on your disk. These are as
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- SHORTCUT.EXE
- This is the ShortCut program. When you start up Short-
- Cut, it is loaded into your computer's memory and it
- stays there until you exit from ShortCut or reset or
- turn off your computer.
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- SHORTCUT.HLP
- This is the file that contains the help screens for
- ShortCut.
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- SHORTCUT.DAT
- This file contains all definitions for the options
- available to you for changing ShortCut. For example, if
- you elect to change the colors of the ShortCut screen,
- when you save your changes they are put in this file.
- Then when you start up ShortCut next time, your changes
- will be effect. If this file is not on your disk,
- ShortCut will start up with the initial settings it
- comes with. If you save your changes or exit ShortCut
- when this file is not on your disk, a new SHORTCUT.DAT
- will be created in the directory you are in.
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- CHATTR.EXE
- A utility program for changing file attributes.
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- AFILE.TXT
- BFILE.TXT
- CFILE.TXT
- DFILE.TXT
- These are sample files for you to use when you are
- learning ShortCut in TUTOR.DOC. They may be erased when
- you no longer need them.
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- COMP.BAT
- This is a file that needs to be run before you start up
- ShortCut for the very first time if your system has a
- single-color monitor and uses a color graphics display
- adapter.
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- COMP.DAT
- This is a file used by COMP.BAT to correctly set up a
- system that has a single-color monitor and a color
- graphics display adapter.
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- START.DOC
- TUTOR.DOC
- DWINDOW.DOC
- COMMND.DOC
- REFER.DOC
- ShortCut's documentation files.
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- README.1ST
- An introduction to the ShortCut package for old and new
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- What Files Are Needed to Run ShortCut?
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- This depends on you. You must have SHORTCUT.EXE to start
- ShortCut. Thereafter, if you do not choose to use the
- on-line help system, or you do not want to save any changes
- you make to ShortCut, it really is not necessary to keep any
- of the ShortCut files on the disk you are using.
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- Where to Start ShortCut
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- If you do not have a DOS path set up, you must be in the
- directory that contains the ShortCut files. This can be
- either the root directory of your disk or a subdirectory. If
- you do have a DOS path set up, you may be in any directory as
- long as the ShortCut files are somewhere along the path.
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- Starting Up ShortCut
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- To start ShortCut, type:
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- SHORTCUT
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- Hit the <Enter> key. The ShortCut screen appears. (Later
- you may want to change the filename SHORTCUT.EXE to SC.EXE so
- you can start up ShortCut with SC.)
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- If you feel a bit overwhelmed by the wealth of information
- you see on your screen, relax. We don't expect you to
- understand everything you see before you, especially if you
- are new to computers. If you don't know a parallel port from
- a default drive, that's okay. TUTOR.DOC will teach you what
- you need to know.
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- We have made ShortCut easy to use for beginners but with
- enough features to satisfy the most demanding user. That is
- why you see so much detail on your screen. You are not going
- to outgrow ShortCut.
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- Getting Out of ShortCut
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- When you are through using your computer for a session, there
- is no need to exit ShortCut. Simply turn off your computer.
- Or, if you prefer, press <Alt-E> to exit ShortCut and return
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- Now that you know how to start and stop ShortCut, you are
- ready to begin exploring. The next chapter will acquaint
- with the main features of the program. Follow along with us
- and you will quickly see how ShortCut can save you time and
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