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- øגךø øøאך ø ø ™ø øø Gives your Portfolio a frendlier approach
- גך ijגךךij ך ךגךךגךךגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגג
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- What is PORTGUI?
- ================
- PortGui is a small iconbased shell from which you can start
- the built in Portfolio programs.
- The program is so small that you can put it, and it's data
- files on drive C:, and still have memory to run programs.
- The icon <-> program assignments are all made in a batchfile
- so that you can configure PortGui for your needs, examine it!
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- What's new?
- ===========
- PortGui now has a built in password protection program.
- The program has become smaller and is now a *.COM file.
- PortGui can now be run on an ordinary PC with a CGA-card.
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- The files, what do they do?
- ===========================
- PG.COM The main program, yes it's now a *.COM file.
- PORTGUI.BAT Batchfile with icon <-> program assignments.
- PORTGUI.DOC This manual.
- PG_ICONS.DEF The icon definition file.
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- Alright, how do I use it?
- =========================
- Using Portgui is simple, transfer the programs PG.EXE,
- PORTGUI.BAT and PG_ICONS.DEF to your Portfolio, with a
- parallel interface or a card-drive.
- Start portgui by typing PORTGUI <ך at the DIP prompt.
- Use the left and right cursor keys to select the program
- to run, and mark your choice with <ך.
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- The icons supplied are,left to right:
- Diary - The internal Diary program.
- Adress - The internal Adress database.
- Editor - The internal Portfolio internal editor.
- Spread Sheet - The internal 1-2-3 compatible worksheet
- program.
- Calculator - The internal built in calculator.
- Printer/Screen - Internal system setup menu.
- Diagram/funct. - Executes an external program FUNCTIO.
- Equation - External program MATH - equation
- evaluation program.
- Tetris icon - Tetrad the Portfolio tetris version.
- Exit sign - Exits Portgui and returns to DIP.
- Off button - Turns off your Portfolio.
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- ™ג™םג™™ג™םא™™ג™™ ™™
- øגךø øøאך ø ø ™ø øø Gives your Portfolio a frendlier approach
- גך ijגךךij ך ךגךךגךךגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגגג
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- Power users guide:
- ==================
- If you like to customize Portgui, simply edit the batch
- file. You can for example, change the APP/C line to
- execute an other calculator, of your choice.
-
- The commandline parameters are as follows:
- PG <no icons> [password]
- no icons - The number of icons to read from the PG_ICONS.DEF.
- password - The password to ask for, at the start of PG.COM.
- Examle:
- The command
- PG 11 FUBAR
- Starts Portgui, asks for a password and displays the 11 first
- icons of PG_ICONS.DEF, if the password is correct.
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- PG.COM returns an errorlevel corresponding to the icon,
- you've selected.
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- The PG_ICON.DEF - file
- ----------------------
- PortGui icons are 16x16 pixel B/W bitmaps.
- The first line represents the first icon, the second line the
- second icon and so forth. The first 4-digit hexadecimal
- number at every line represents the first line in the icon,
- the second number, the second line and so forth.
- An all black icon is defined by a line with 16 "FFFF" separated
- with a comma ",".
-
- History:
- ========
- Ver 1.1 The ancient original PortGui.
- 1.2 The screenlayout has been redesigned to be able
- to handle more icons.
- 1.3 Userdefined icons are now implemented.
- 1.4 A password protection utility is now added,
- the program now runs on a PC with a CGA-card.
- The program is smaller and
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- Future:
- =======
- The future of PortGui depends on YOUR support and feedback.
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- You can reach me though Internet mail at:
- ran@elc.beijer.se
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