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- To: All Prodigy Members
- From: Philippe Rabergeau (WNWB44A)
- Date: 04/07/91
- Subject: PRO$TOCK Version 1.5: *P* utility
- Message: For complete technical support, use in Prodigy online service the
- Bulletin board: ABOUT PRODIGY
- Topic: MEMBER UTILITIES
- Subject: PRO$TOCK ...
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- 1. List and description of the files of PRO$TOCK
- 2. What can I do with PRO$TOCK?
- 3. Hardware requirements
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- 4. OLDER USER OF PREVIOUS VERSION, READ THIS FIRST
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- 5. Installation of PRO$TOCK software
- 6. What's NEW
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- 1. List and description of the files of PRO$TOCK
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- BBS Distribution file ... PROS15.ZIP or PROS15.EXE
- BBS Description ......... Download Stock Quotes from Prodigy V1.5
- BBS keyword ............. PRODIGY PRO$TOCK MEMBER UTILITY STOCK
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- List of the file in the distribution disk or archived (13 files):
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- INSTALL BAT Installation program
- README DOC This file
- VENDOR DOC Shareware Vendor and BBS description
- CHKANSI4 EXE ANSI check (used by INSTALL.BAT)
- PROS15 EXE Self extracted program (used by INSTALL.BAT)
- DO NOT RUN THIS PROGRAM (Only INSTALL.BAT can install this file)
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- If you distribute PRO$TOCK to friends, or to a computer bulletin
- board system (BBS), please distribute the file PROS15.ZIP or
- PROS15.EXE rather than the individual files.
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- 2. What can I do with PRO$TOCK?
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- PRO$TOCK is a complete software package compatible with Prodigy
- Emulation software. See VENDOR.DOC for more info.
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- Read or Print the file PRO$TOCK.DOC to learn more about PRO$TOCK.
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- To read this file, type from DOS prompt: TYPE PRO$TOCK.DOC | MORE
- To print this file, type from DOS prompt: TYPE PRO$TOCK.DOC >PRN
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- Or use the tool FVIEW: FVIEW PRO$TOCK.DOC
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- 3. Hardware requirement
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- To run PRO$TOCK software, you need:
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- - IBM PC/XT/AT/PS2 computer
- - Hard disk
- - 640 Kbytes of RAM
- - Prodigy Emulation software Version 3.0 or 3.1
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- 4. OLDER USERS OF PREVIOUS VERSION, READ THIS FIRST
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- In order to get a clean configuration file, press F9 from the Main menu
- and press ESC.
- If you still have some problems, delete the PRO$TOCK.CFG file from your
- hard drive. To do this, from the DOS command line, type:
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- DEL \PRO$TOCK\SYS\PRO$TOCK.CFG
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- 5. Installation of PRO$TOCK software
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- To install PRO$TOCK, from DOS, type:
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- INSTALL C:
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- If you want install PRO$TOCK in drive D: type:
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- INSTALL D:
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- Directory of file after installation in drive C:
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- C:\PRO$TOCK
- PS BAT Batch file to run PRO$TOCK
- PSBOOT BAT Other Batch file to run PRO$TOCK
- README DOC Data file used by README.BAT
- FVIEW EXE Replace TYPE DOS command
- PRO$TOCK ICO Windows 3.0 icon for PRO$TOCK
- PRO$TOCK EXE Main PRO$TOCK Program
- PRO$TSR EXE TSR program used by PRO$TOCK
- PROCV LST List of Conversion programs
- PROCVSPD EXE Program to convert to Spreadsheet format as well as
- DOS command for Conversion into Spreadsheet format
- PROCVSPD C Source Code of PROCVSPD.EXE
- PROCV123 EXE Program to convert into Lotus 123 format as well as
- DOS command for Conversion into Lotus 1-2-3 format
- PROREN BAT Batch file used by PSBOOT.BAT
- AUTOEXEC PRO Example of AUTOEXEC.BAT file used by PSBOOT.BAT
- CONFIG PRO Example of CONFIG.SYS file used by PSBOOT.BAT
- REBOOT COM Small utility used by PSBOOT.BAT
- PRO$TOCK DOC Documentation of PRO$TOCK software
- REGISTER DOC Registration form
- VENDOR DOC Shareware Vendor Information
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- 6. What' New Since Version 1.2
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- - If you have a monochrome system that was not automatically detected by
- PRO$TOCK type PS /M to run PRO$TOCK.
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- - If you want download directly stock quotes when running PRO$TOCK, type:
- PS /21 the second number is the list number (1 to 9)
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- - a new option is available:
- type F9 in the main menu, and go page 3 (Pgdn): Exit PRO$TOCK after download
- this option will allow you to go to dos after a download.
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- - be aware that sometimes, Prodigy Quote Check is not available, I have
- changed the keyboard macro to be more resistant to that, but no stock
- quotes will be downloaded if Prodigy Quote Check is not available.
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- - If you were using an older version, type F9 from the main menu and press
- ESC: a new, clean configuration file will be created
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- - Quicken 4.0 conversion program added
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- For more info, or to place an order, here is my business card:
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