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- OS BROWSE Version 1.0
-
- COPYRIGHT 1991
-
- by
-
- OS Systems Ltd.
-
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-
-
- OSBROWSE is NOT free software. You are granted a limited licence to use
- OSBROWSE for a limited period (30 days), for evaluation purposes only.
- Use beyond this evaluation requires you to register this software. See
- REGISTER.DOC on the distribution disk for registration details. The
- program and the associated documentation on disk may be freely
- distributed on the following conditions:
-
- No changes whatsoever are made to the program or its
- documentation.
-
- No charge is made for its distribution (exceptions will be made
- for authorised disk duplication services - No charge will be made
- for this authorisation but I need to know who is distributing the
- program so that I can send out updates - please write to the
- address at the end of this document).
-
-
- LIMITED WARRANTY
-
- For registered users, and users who have obtained OSBROWSE directly
- from the OS Systems Ltd, who warrant that the distribution disk is an
- accurate reproduction of the software. In the event of any defect in the
- duplication process OS Systems Ltd will replace the disk, as long as it
- is returned within 30 days of receipt. No other warranty, implicit or
- otherwise, including but not limited to merchantability or fitness for
- any particular purpose, is made. Under no circumstances will OS Systems
- Ltd be liable for any loss or damage suffered by any user arising out of
- the supply, use, or operation of this software, whether such loss or
- damage be direct, consequential or otherwise.
-
-
- WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF REGISTERING?
-
- If you register your copy of OSBROWSE you will be entitled to the
- latest copy of the software, with all the additional features described
- below on a 360K 5.25", or 760K 3.5" diskette, a full printed manual and
- 90 days telephone support.
-
- See the file REGISTER.DOC for details of how to register.
-
- HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO REGISTER?
-
- The price of OSBROWSE is £15.00 including VAT.
-
-
- WHERE CAN I OBTAIN SUPPORT?
-
- Registered users are entitled to 90 days telephone support, from
- the date of registration of their software. In addition registered
- users may obtain support via our Compuserve Mailbox no. 100012,533, or
- on CIX - mailbox no. @cix.ibarton.
-
- OS SYSTEMS LTD
- HIGH RIGG
- ALMA RD
- TIDESWELL
- BUXTON
- SK17 8LS
- TEL (0298) 871925
- FAX (0298) 72517
-
-
- Introduction
-
- OSBROWSE is a File Browsing utility which you can use to display
- text files on your screen. In addition to viewing files, you can also mark
- sections of text to be saved to disk or printed. Other features are the
- ability to search for text, view text in hex or ASCII mode, strip high
- bits from ASCII files and expand tabs.
-
- OSBROWSE has a simple file management front end which will allow
- you to perform simple operations such as Copying, Renaming and Deleting
- files. You can also set file attributes, change the display format from
- displaying just a file name to showing full file information. It is also
- possible to sort files in either Name, Extension, Date, Size or MS-DOS
- order.
-
- All important operations are accessible from Pop Down Menus
- (using the F10 key) or, for more experienced users, available via hot-
- keys. The Browser itself uses WordStar compatible commands.
-
- Perhaps the most important feature is the context sensitive
- hypertext help, which makes OSBROWSE easy to use for inexperienced
- users. Pressing the F1 key will give you context sensitive help, which
- contains cross-references to other related topics. Alternatively, you
- can look at the help index and select a topic. The help system maintains
- a stack of the last few pages of help which you have viewed and you can
- page back through these using the Alt-F1 key. Since the hypertext help
- is meant to be comprehensive the printed documentation supplied with
- the program in minimal - if you want to know how it works press F1 and
- look at the help screens! For this reason I would welcome any comments
- on how the help screens could be imporved.
-
- You can use OSBROWSE either as a normal DOS program, or as a
- swappable TSR that takes only 7K of RAM. You can choose whether the
- program swaps to Expanded Memory, or to disk.
-
-
- Files on the Disk
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- OSBROWSE.EXE the browser program
- BROWSE.HLP the help files
-
-
- Using OSBROWSE in Resident and Non Resident Mode
-
- To load the Browser as a normal DOS program, simply type OSBROWSE
- /n at the DOS prompt. When you exit the Directory Window the program
- will be unloaded from DOS as would any other normal, non resident
- program.
-
- To load the Browser as a TSR (pop-up) simply type OSBROWSE at the
- DOS prompt. To pop up the Browser over another DOS application hold
- down the Alt key and press the Tab key. The message "Swapping In" while
- the non-resident portion of the Browser is loaded from the disk, or
- expanded memory.
-
- Please note that you cannot run OSBROWSE as a TSR unless it is
- installed on a hard disk. Trying to do so will produce an error message.
-
-
- OSBROWSE is able to use a Microsoft, or compatible mouse.
-
-
- Command Line Switches You Can Use When Loading OSBROWSE.
-
- OSBROWSE can be run either as a normal DOS program, or as a TSR.
- If used as a TSR the program will swap most of itself out of memory to
- disk, expanded, or extended memory. When you press the hot-key (Alt-
- Tab) the non resident portion of the program is loaded from disk and
- OSBROWSE will then pop-up. When exiting OSBROWSE most of the program,
- except for a small RAM resident portion is swapped out to disk,
- expanded, or extended memory. This enables the program to minimise the
- amount of memory that it uses whilst resident.
-
- You can use whether the non-resident portion is swapped to disk,
- expanded, or extended memory by specifying the appropriate command
- line switch when first loading OSBROWSE.
-
- /? Display help screen for command line parameters
-
- /N Don't load OSBROWSE as a TSR
-
- /E Don't use expanded memory for swap file
-
- /X Swap to extended memory if available
-
- /A Use normal, instead of hidden, attributes if swapping
- to disk
-
- /Ppathname Specify the pathname to use when swapping to
- disk
-
- /U Unload OSBROWSE from memory
-
- Examples:
-
- OSBROWSE /N Run as a normal DOS program
-
- OSBROWSE /E/A/D:\SWAPDIR Load as a TSR, but don't use expanded
- memory for swap file, set swap file
- attributes to non-hidden and use
- MYSWAPDIR for the swap file
-