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* * AutoMenu 1.0 * *
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* by *
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* Jean-Laurent PRADEL *
* Februar 1993 *
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Introduction
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It was a cold day in October or November, so I decided to make
something with Bob. Bob is my computer... But this day was
special, because I realized that I was really fed up to lose
time to type a full path and the good name (after some dir/w)
to retrieve finally the program that I wanted to use...
So I jumped in TP 6... And start this program...
Why, What ?
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When you want to have an easy acces to a program, the DOS proposes
you to create a PATH line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT... You rapidly
realize that this line becomes longer and longer... And you always
need to remember the name of the good EXE program...
BORING !
It 's why I created AUTOMENU. In fact, you can find others programs
which offer more possibilities than mine. But I really want to have
one in graphic mode... Maybe I was boring to ear some people saying
"Oh, you search the name ! This will not happend with a Macintosh !"
To resume, AUTOMENU is an opening menu Creator...!
Hum... Creator...!?!
You will need to help it a little bit...
How does it work ?
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This program is in fact composed of 2 programs :
- Initor which creates the menu... (A file named MENU.ACC)
- Automenu which 'executes' this menu...
First, you need to set up your menu. For this use the program
INITOR. This program will scan your disk, get the tree, and
propose you to select the programs that you want to put in your
menu...
Type INITOR (Disk)
(Disk) indicates which disk will be scanned.
Examples : INITOR C or INITOR D
If the file MENU.ACC already exists on C:\, it will propose you
to 'overwrite' it or 'add or del events'...
After what, it will scan your disk. Then you will be able to
make a round in yours directories...
If you choose 'Search EXE', the program will give you the list
of the executables programs (EXE, COM and BAT) in the current
directory. The files .EXE will appear in Red, the files .COM
in Magenta and the files .BAT in Darkgrey.
Just select a file and give a name to the label which will
represent the program. I limited this name to 8 caracters for this
version.
When you are OK, go back until leaving the program.
INITOR writes always a file MENU.ACC in the root directory of C:,
and only here...!
And now.... You just need to type..... AUTOMENU...
I leave you the surprise...
Problems...!
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Yes, I know... A good program has no problem...
But I never said that it 's a good program....!
Seriously, I know few problems...:
Generally : It 's possible that the programs never find your
mouse...! This could happen with old drivers
specially with old Logitech Drivers...
This could happen if you use the driver which
comes with Windows (I think only Win 3.0...).
With INITOR : It 's simply not perfect... For example, it can
only display correctly 32 directories (you will
see that it 's not a problem if you have a nice
tree on your HD) and 54 executables programms !
That 's could be a problem, not with the normals
directories which only contain a main program
but it 's a problem with the DOS directory and
the WINDOWS directory (only if you have not make
a lot of subdirectories...).
Nethertheless you can select the COMMAND.COM to get
a Dos-Shell (you could quit it easily with 'exit'!).
With AUTOMENU : It 's the more stupid program that I never write !
It makes no test for the mouse, the MENU.ACC file
and others things. I eliminated those tests to
win momery place.
It needs now 50400 Kb of memory to run... It 's not
a problem with most of the programs (Windows, Games,
and what you want...). But a friend saw that some
big games had no more enough memory (WC for example).
Informations
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I would like to distribute this program as POSTWARE ! I just will
be very happy to receive a beautifful postcard of your city or
something else ???!!!....
Before May 93 : After May 93 :
Jean-Laurent PRADEL Jean-Laurent PRADEL (always me !)
Im Sohlgraben 1A Ch. Piégros Sud
D 3550 MARBURG Villa Le Sapin Bleu
83170 BRIGNOLES
Germany
France
You could also give me your hot remarks by E-Mail :
Pidou@astro.chemie.uni-marburg.de
(but I really like the postcards...)
Something else ! For this program, I used an Unit to program the
mouse in graphic mode... I wrote this unit for few mounths...
And you could found it in Simtel20 /turbopas, and all the mirrors
of Simtel20 (WuArchive for example...).
I hope that you will like it...!
Have fun. Viele Spaß.
Amusez vous bien.
Jean-Laurent PRADEL.