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- INSTALLATION
- ------------
-
- 1) Place the Point & Shoot program disk in floppy drive A:
-
- 2) From the ROOT DIRECTORY of your hard disk, type:
-
- A:INSTALL
-
- 3) Add "P&S" to the PATH command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
- If you don't have a PATH command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file, then make the following the first line in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- PATH \P&S
-
- 4) Add the command PS (not PAS ) to the END of your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- 5) Make sure your CONFIG.SYS file contains the following lines:
-
- FILES = 20
- BUFFERS = 20
-
- 6) Reboot your computer (Ctrl-Alt-Del). Point & Shoot
- should appear on your screen. If any problems occur,
- consult the documentation.
-
-
- COMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS
- ----------------------
-
- NOTE: Compatibility problems have been reported with certain
- models of computers. Point & Shoot may not run
- correctly on the following computers:
-
- - AT&T 6300 with CGA monitor
- - HP Vectra with monochrome monitor (early models)
- - Some Compaq models with EGA monochrome monitor (these
- may work correctly if you add a MODE MONO command to
- the PS.BAT file immediately before the PAS command)
-
- - DO NOT use the screen blankers (ASB & ASBE) with IBM PS/2
- computers. Some users have reported that PS/2's will
- hang if the screen blankers are used.
-
- If you experience problems with your computer, please report
- the problem to AMST.
-
-
- PRINTING THE DOCUMENTATION
- --------------------------
-
- To print the documentation, type the following from the DOS
- prompt:
-
- COPY PASDOC.TXT PRN:
-
- A second option to print the documentation is to use the File
- Print command found in the Point & Shoot file commands.
-
-
- RESTARTING POINT & SHOOT FROM DOS
- ---------------------------------
-
- To restart Point & Shoot from any directory, type: PS
-
- If the current drive is other than the drive containing Point &
- Shoot, then change to the correct drive first.
-
-
- UPDATES TO DOCUMENTATION
- ------------------------
-
- An additional SETUP option is now included to allow the user
- to enter a 50 character string to appear at the top of the screen
- in place of the POINT & SHOOT program name. This feature is
- intended for those who wish to further personalize the program.
- IN NO EVENT SHOULD THE USER USE TEXT THAT INFERS OTHER THAN
- AMST COPYRIGHT OR OWNERSHIP. I.E., DO NOT PUT A COPYRIGHT WITH
- YOUR NAME IN THE TITLE! AMST RESERVES ALL COPYRIGHT TO THIS
- PROGRAM.
-
- SETUP also includes options for quit prompting and EMS usage.
-
- Another SETUP option is now included to allow the user to change
- the color of the mouse cursor. The mouse cursor will appear in
- the sample screen in the SETUP window.
-
- The user-defined menu entries may now be selected with a Ctrl-key
- combination. The first capital letter in the menu entry will be
- used as the selection letter. If the more than one menu entry
- has the same selection letter, the first matching one is selected.
-
- Up to 4 floppy drives now be selected with the DISKFORMAT command.
- SETUP includes a list of floppy drive numbers that must be filled
- in to select the correct floppy drive during format. External
- floppy drives are often numbers 2 or 3.