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- Design SHELL (tm) v3.0b
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- Copyright (c) 1993 by: jwh: SoftWare All Rights Reserved.
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- Member: Association of Shareware Authors and Distributors (ASAD)
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- A VGA color system and a MicroSoft (tm) compatible mouse is required
- to operate this application.
-
- NOTE !! Do not attempt to run this program on a 360k floppy drive.
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- Design SHELL is a complete and very user friendly Graphics User
- Interface (GUI) or Menuing system. It provides the user with
- colorful picture icons for selecting sub menus or executing
- applications or DOS commands. Allows creating up to 30 menus
- or applications on the opening page. Sub menus may be nested
- three levels deep. With this configuration, you could access
- up to 27,000 menu selections.
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- Design SHELL provides the user with up to eight different screen
- background color combinations, up to six different font types
- with a 3D effect or flat faced, and includes a full featured Icon
- editor for creating sixteen color picture icons.
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- All options can be fully password protected against entry.
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- A library of 16 color icons (over 350) is available for downloading
- on most BBS's in a file named: DS_ICONS.ZIP
-
- Registered users receive an Icon library with over 600 Icons
- upon registering.
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- To run Design SHELL: Copy all files to a directory on your hard drive,
- move to that drive and directory and type: DESIGN
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- Design SHELL will operate from a HD floppy drive
- with no problems except reading and writing
- to icon files would be very slow.
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- For smoother operation, you may also include this
- drive and directory in your AUTOEXEC.BAT files
- PATH statement. If you do this, you can start
- Design SHELL from any drive or directory on your
- system just by typing: DESIGN
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- Files needed to run Design SHELL:
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- DESIGN .EXE -- Main program module
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- DS_UTIL .EXE -- Directory/File Utility module
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- SHELLRUN.EXE -- Shell runtime module
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- DESIGN .HLP \
- DS_UTIL .HLP > Program help text
- ICONEDIT.HLP /
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- DESIGN1 .FNT \
- DESIGN2 .FNT |
- DESIGN3 .FNT > System Fonts
- DESIGN4 .FNT |
- DESIGN5 .FNT |
- DESIGN6 .FNT /
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- DESIGN01.ICN \
- TO > System Icons
- DESIGN36.ICN /
- NOTE ! These icons may be edited or changed
- with the included icon editor but they
- must not be deleted.
-
- Around 20 additional icons may also
- be included with this disk.
-
- NOTE !! On some shareware versions the .HLP, .FNT, & .ICN files
- may be compressed into a self extracting archive file
- named "DS_FILES.EXE". If you have one of these copies,
- the first time you run Design SHELL, it will automaticaly
- un-compress this file at startup.
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- Copy all files to a directory on your hard drive, move to
- that directory and at the DOS prompt, type: DESIGN <enter>.
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