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  7.                                                          LASER LABELMATE
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  12.                                                               Version 1.0
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  15.                                                                Users Manual
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  26.                                                 (C) 1993, SavageWare
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  37.   This manual was produced using Doc-To-HelpR, by WexTech Systems, Inc.
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  44.                                                   WexTech Systems, Inc.
  45.                                                         310 Madison Avenue,
  46.                                                         Suite 905
  47.                                                         New York, NY 10017
  48.                                                         (212) 949-9595
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  55.                                       Contents
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  57.                       Overview                                               3
  58.                            Introduction                                       3
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  60.                       Getting Started                                        4
  61.                            Unpacking and moving in                            4
  62.                                 What's in this package?                       4
  63.                                 Where does the furniture go?                  5
  64.                                 System requirements                           5
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  66.                       Your first sheet                                       6
  67.                            Going from soft to hard-copy                       6
  68.                                 The main form                                 6
  69.                                 Selecting a drive                             7
  70.                                 Divider Tabs                                  8
  71.                                 Printing your labels                          8
  72.                                 Preparing for the next sheet of labels        8
  73.                                 Exiting Laser LabelMate                       9
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  75.                       Navigating                                            10
  76.                            Using the menus                                   10
  77.                                 The File menu                                10
  78.                                 Disk Label menu                              11
  79.                                 Tabs menu                                    11
  80.                                 Help menu                                    11
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  82.                       License Information                                    13
  83.                            Unregistered version                              13
  84.                            Registered version                                13
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  86.                       Miscellaneous                                          14
  87.                            Technical Support                                 14
  88.                            Feature suggestions                               14
  89.                            Network/multiple-copy orders                      15
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  91.                       Glossary                                               16
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  93.                            Terms used in the manual                          16
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  101.             Overview
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  110.             Introduction
  111.                                 Long ago, in the era of dot-matrix
  112.                                 printers, it was easy to print the
  113.                                 directory list of a floppy disk on an
  114.                                 adhesive label.  Now the text may not
  115.                                 always have been legible (especially if
  116.                                 you had a 9-pin printer, but it worked,
  117.                                 and it was easier than popping the disk
  118.                                 into the drive and using DOS to get a
  119.                                 directory of the files. But if you have
  120.                                 a laser printer, well, that changes
  121.                                 everything.  All of a sudden, that great
  122.                                 old labeling program no longer works
  123.                                 because it was designed to print labels
  124.                                 one at a time -- or to be more accurate,
  125.                                 one line at a time; and as we all know,
  126.                                 laser printers print one page at a time.
  127.                                 So began the quest (and as any Monty
  128.                                 Python fan clearly knows, the Quest is
  129.                                 the Quest) for laser printer disk labels
  130.                                 and a program that would make use of
  131.                                 them.  The first part was easy -- a trip
  132.                                 to the local business/office supply
  133.                                 store turned up a vast supply of Avery
  134.                                 5196 label stock; and though a box of
  135.                                 these labels carried a hefty price tag
  136.                                 (approximately $35), the final cost of
  137.                                 5.5-cents per label didn't seem like
  138.                                 such a big expense in the long run.
  139.                                 The second half of the Quest was a bit
  140.                                 more difficult.  After looking high and
  141.                                 low, under rocks and in trees, on
  142.                                 bulletin board systems from one end of
  143.                                 the country to the next, and even on a
  144.                                 couple of commercial on-line services,
  145.                                 things were looking pretty grim.
  146.                                 I couldn't find a program to do what I
  147.                                 needed, so in the true spirit of a
  148.                                 determined wonk (and entrepreneur), I
  149.                                 set about to create the very tool that
  150.                                 seemed so elusive, and Laser LabelMate
  151.                                 was born.
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  158.                                 Getting Started
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  163.                                 Unpacking and moving in
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  166.                                 Laser LabelMate is distributed as
  167.                                 shareware in a ZIP  archive.  To install
  168.                                 the program, you will need to unZIP the
  169.                                 archive and place some of the files in
  170.                                 specific places.
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  172.                                What's in this package?
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  174.                                 The LABLMATE.ZIP archive contains the
  175.                                 following files:
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  177.                                 LABLMATE.DOC   Documentation (Word for
  178.                                    Windows 2.0 format)
  179.                                 LABLMATE.EXE   Laser LabelMate
  180.                                    executable
  181.                                 LABLMATE.HLP   Help file for use with
  182.                                    Windows Help viewer
  183.                                 LABLMATE.TXT   This file (in ASCII text
  184.                                    format)
  185.                                 THREED.VBX     Custom control file
  186.                                 README.1ST     Quick introduction
  187.                                 FILE_ID.DIZ    Archive description file
  188.                                    (for BBS use)
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  190.  
  191.                                 Not included in the LABLMATE.ZIP
  192.                                 archive, is VBRUN200.DLL.  This is the
  193.                                 dynamic link library used by any program
  194.                                 written in Visual Basic 2.0 for Windows;
  195.                                 but don't worry, you've either already
  196.                                 got it in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
  197.                                 directory, or can find it on the system
  198.                                 where you downloaded this program.
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