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- The Simple Series An (ASP) Approved Vendor
- P.O. Box 1167
- Plaistow, NH 03865
- (603) 642-3828
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- We have provided this file for those of you who are new
- to Shareware. We would suggest that you spend some time
- reading about DOS commands and compression utilities.
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- The Simple Series is dedicated to providing the authors
- we serve with the highest quality distribution services we
- can. We are constantly looking for new programs to add to
- our library any author wishing to submit their work to us may
- do so at the address listed above.
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- The (ASP) Association of Shareware Professionals
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- We are proud to be an approved vendor of the (ASP). It
- is our goal to be considered as a leader in quality and
- service as a Shareware distributor. We believe strongly in
- the Shareware system as we hope you do. We expect that those
- of you who purchase our disks, and use them, will register with
- the author. The (ASP) is working hard to set standards for
- both authors and distributors. We are committed to enforcing
- that these standards are met.
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- This document is only meant to give some basic guidance.
- We suggest you read additional material to fully understand
- DOS and how to work with your computer.
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- 1.) DOS COMMANDS
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- A.) COPY - The copy command allows you to copy files
- [from a location] [to a location]. A location simply being a
- storage device, which would be a floppy disk or a hard disk.
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- Examples and explanations:
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- The DOS prompt is critical to this operation it will look like
- this A:\> or C:\>.
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- A:\>COPY A:*.* B:
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- Will copy all files on drive A: to B:.
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- A:\>COPY A:read.me B:
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- Will copy the file read.me from A: to B:.
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- A:\>COPY A:*.dat B:
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- Will copy all files with the extension .dat to B:.
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- C:\>COPY C:\wp\*.doc C:\doc\
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- Will copy all .doc files stored in the subdirectory
- \wp\ to the subdirectory \doc\.
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- B.) DIR - This command will allow you to list to the
- screen the files located on a drive or disk.
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- Examples and explanations:
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- C:\>DIR
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- Will list the files on the root directory.
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- C:\>DIR/P
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- Will list the files to the screen but will pause when the
- screen fills and you will be prompted to press a key to
- continue.
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- A:\>DIR/W
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- Will list the files to the screen in a wide screen
- format, slightly different than the others listed.
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- C.) TYPE - The TYPE command is used to view text
- files on screen.
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- Examples and explanations:
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- C:\>TYPE A:read.me
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- This will list the file read.me to the screen to stop it
- from scrolling hold the CTRL key and press the SCROLL
- LOCK key press any key to continue viewing. If you have
- an enhanced keyboard you can use the PAUSE key.
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- C:\>TYPE A:read.me|more
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- This will do the same as above, the more option causes
- the file to scroll one page at a time.
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- D.) PRINT - Allows you to print files to your printer.
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- Examples and explanations:
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- C:\>PRINT A:\temp\read.me
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- Will print the file read.me which is located in the
- subdirectory \temp\.
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- The print command will prompt you for NAME OF LIST
- DEVICE [PRN]: if your print is connected to LPT1 or the
- standard parallel port just hit ENTER. If this does not
- work we would suggest that you contact your hardware
- dealer to find out which port your printer is connected
- to. The normal connection for the printer is to LPT1 and
- you won't have a problem.
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- F.) DISKCOPY - Allows you to copy an entire disk.
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- Examples and explanations:
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- C:\>DISKCOPY A: A:
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- This will copy a master disk inserted in A: to A:.
- The system will prompt you when to insert the master and
- when to insert the blank.
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- A:\>DISKCOPY A: B:
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- This will copy a master disk in A: to B:.
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- ARCHIVED FILES
- or
- COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING FILES
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- Archiving is used very heavily in the Shareware industry
- and the reason for this is simple, saving precious disk
- space. When you do a directory listing of your disk and you
- see file extensions like .ARC .LZH .PAK .ZIP you know that
- file is in an archived format. The Simple Series has tried
- to make our library as uniform as possible. We have selected
- PKZIP as our primary compression utility. On each disk we
- supply that is Zipped you should have PKUNZIP. PKUNZIP
- allows you to extract the file.
-
- Examples and explanations:
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- A:\>PKUNZIP
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- This by itself won't do anything other than to bring up
- a help screen for using PKUNZIP. You may want to refer to
- this for further help.
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- A:\>PKUNZIP *.zip B:
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- This will extract all .zip files on drive A: to B:
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- A:\>PKUNZIP test c:\temp\
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- This will extract all files from test.zip to the
- subdirectory \temp\.
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- The easiest method for doing this is to copy the disk
- you have received to a subdirectory on your hard drive and
- then issue the command PKUNZIP *.zip.
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