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- THE OTHER PROGRAMS ON THIS DISK
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- ORDER.EXE
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- You can make a special file called ORDER.FRM for use with
- ORDER.EXE which will allow your readers to print out your own
- custom order form. Registered users of Writer's Dream may
- distribute ORDER.EXE with their books.
- To use it, make an ordinary ASCII file called ORDER.FRM.
- The first five lines in the file will be printed whenever a
- reader types ORDER at the DOS prompt. Then the reader's name,
- address, phone number and required disk size will be printed.
- Then the remaining lines of text within ORDER.FRM will be
- printed. You should be careful to include no more lines than
- will fit on a single sheet of 8.5" by 11" paper.
- For best results with the widest variety of printers, use
- a 10 character left margin and 10 character right margin (60
- characters per line).
- To understand this program better, try the example which
- is Another Company's ORDER.FRM. Type ORDER at your DOS
- prompt to see it work. Then examine our ORDER.FRM with your
- word processor. Copy it and change it to suit your tastes.
- You can now list ORDER.EXE in the WRITER'S DREAM menu
- with the BUILD program and your users can print an order form
- with the greatest of ease.
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- SPACE.EXE
-
- Many people like the appearance of a text file in which the
- lines of text are about 60 characters wide and centered on
- the screen, such as this file you are now reading. Lines of
- 60 characters width or less are less tiring on the eyes, too.
- SPACE.EXE helps you add that look to your own documents.
- Start by creating a file in which your left margin is set to
- 1 and the right margin is 60 columns. When the file is done,
- run SPACE.EXE. It will ask you to type the name of your
- file. It will create a duplicate of that file, but with a
- left margin. You will have to type a name for the duplicate
- file. For instance, if your original file is called
- CHAPTER.1, you can call the new one CH.1. Then you will be
- asked to type a number of spaces to add to the left edge of
- the lines of text. Type 10. Voila, CH.1 becomes a
- professional looking file!
- If you use Word Perfect or Microsoft Word, when your
- files are converted to ASCII, left justification (margin) is
- stripped off. SPACE.EXE will restore your left margin.
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- REPAIR.EXE
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- REPAIR.EXE makes copies of your text files, but in the
- process attempts to repair non-ASCII text. It does not work
- with the default mode files created by all word processing
- programs, but works with many. Fortunately, almost all word
- processing programs have their own way to create ordinary
- ASCII text. If your word processor does not do a good job of
- it, try using REPAIR.EXE. Type REPAIR at your DOS prompt.
- The program is super-easy-to-use.
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- All of these programs are for royalty-free use by registered
- users of Writer's Dream.
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- VGAORTXT.EXE
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- I have had two cases where authors wanted to run
- MSHOW.EXE a multimedia presentation program from MEDIA
- MAGIC, which would run in VGA on their customers' computers
- which were equipped to handle VGA, but would run a text
- presentation with Writer's Dream on the other computers. For
- those two cases, and the others which are sure to come along
- (perhaps yours?), I have written a small program called
- VGAORTXT.EXE which determines whether an end user's computer
- has VGA capability. If it does, VGAORTXT will automatically
- run MSHOW.EXE with the first filename following VGAORTXT on
- the command line or within a batch file. If the end user's
- computer does not have VGA, then VGAORTXT runs DREAM.EXE with
- the second filename following VGAORTXT. Here's an example of
- a BEGIN.BAT:
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- VGAORTXT MAINSHOW BOOK.CFG
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- When the end user types BEGIN, the computer starts MSHOW.EXE
- and displays MAINSHOW if the computer is VGA-equipped, or it
- runs DREAM.EXE with the standard BOOK.CFG if not.
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- CUSTOM PROGRAMS
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- Sometimes it is more cost-effective to have a custom
- program made than to struggle with incorrect software. I do
- custom programming! If you need something special, please
- contact me for an estimate. Prices from $200. - Jeff -
- 503-482-3611, or via CompuServe 71022,175.
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- chapter end.