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For most things you do in Win95, there are two or more ways to get
to the same place. I am going to attempt to get you where you need to
go via the shortest route. You should be reading this document from a
DOS windows or Windows notepad or Write. Any of these will do the trick.
From the desktop, you should have some icons on the desktop already.
This document should be in a window so that you may read and do
things at the same time.
1. Double Click on the icon that says "My Computer".
This should give you a window with representations of all your drives,
network connections, CD drives and floppies drives that you have on
your machine. At the bottom of that screen you should see an icon that
says "Control Panel".
2. Double Click on the "Control Panel" Icon.
Now. close My Computer group by clicking on the X box at the top right
corner. Inside Control panel there is an icon that says "System" at the
bottom of that group.
3. Double Click on the "System" Icon.
Now, close Control Panel by clicking the X at the top right corner.
You should have a panel showing a monitor and describing your
computer. At the top you should have what look like file folder tabs.
Click the one that says "Device Manager". This should give you a screen
that shows all the components of your computer. Near the bottom of
that list you should see a place that says Ports (COM&LPT). Click on
the small box with the X in it that is in front of ports. That will
extend the list of ports to show all the COM and LPT ports you have
installed on your machine.
4. Double Click on the port your modem is installed on.
This will give you another folder describing your port. At the top
of the folder you should see the tab marked "Port Settings".
5. Click the "Port settings" tab.
Here you can adjust your port speed settings. Bits per second, data
bits, parity, stop bits, and flow control.
A. Bits per second _____________ for a 14.4 modem use 19200
for a 28.8 modem use 38400
some programs may be unpredictable if you have your port speed set
too high. Not to mention, if you are using a fossil driver, it will
cut back your port speed to what you specify there anyway.
B. Data bits 8
C. Parity None
D. Stop bits 1
E. Flow Control ________________ if you have a hardware error
correcting modem set it to Hardware otherwise set it to Software.
"Don't use NONE!" SPITFIRE may start doing strange things.
At the bottom of the screen you have a button that says "Advanced".
6. Click the "Advanced" button.
At the top left of the Advanced Port Settings there is a box that is
in front of the sentence:
Use FIFO buffers (requires 16550 compatible Uart)
A. If you have a hardware error correcting modem check this box.
If you do not have a hardware error correcting modem skip to D.
B. Receive Buffer move this to High (14)
C. Transmit Buffer move this to High (16)
D. Click OK
7. At The bottom of the Port Setting page there is an OK button. Click on
it.
At the bottom of System Properties there is an OK button. Click on it.
Whew, the first part is done. Time for a smoke and a cup of coffee.
Ok, times up. Time to go back to work.
I am going to go through this next part as if you have not run a BBS
under Windows in the past so experience users bare with me.
On the bottom left corner of your screen you should see a button with the
Windows flag that says START.
1. Click On Start.
This will give you a list of things currently available to work with
that are setup on your machine. You should see an icon that says
settings.
2. Highlight "Settings".
This will open another box with three other icons. One of these will
say Task Bar.
3. Double Click on "Task Bar".
This will open a folder that has two tabs at the top. One says "Start
Menu Programs".
4. Click on "Start Menu Programs".
This folder has three buttons. One of these say "Add".
5. Click on "Add".
You should have a box where you can put the name of the program or use
the browse button. Type the full path to and the name of your SPITFIRE
batch file, ie., C:\SF\SF.BAT in the box. This should enable the button
on the bottom of that page saying "Next".
6. Click "Next".
This will give you a listing of all the program folders on your taskbar
find the one that says "Startup".
If a Startup folder does not exist you can create it by clicking on
the button that says "New Folder". When it gives you a box to enter the
name of the group type in "StartUp". The new folder will be added to
the startup menu. When you hit the button that says Next, it will
automatically put SPITFIRE in the program name box. The "Finish" button
will appear at the bottom of the folder. Click on "Finish". The next
time Win95 starts, any program in the startup folder will automatically
run.
7. Click On the "Startup" folder.
This will add SPITFIRE to the startup folder. You will see a button
that says "Finish".
8. Click "Finish".
Now that SPITFIRE is on the menu we can make a few more minor adjustments.
1. Click the "Start" button.
2. Go to the "Programs" icon on the start menu.
3. Go to the "StartUp" selection on the menu. "SPITFIRE" will show up in
the last bar.
4. Double click on "SPITFIRE" to start the program.
At this point SPITFIRE should initialize in a DOS window. Using a mouse
and clicking the top left corner on the SPITFIRE window will give you the
program pull down menu. At the bottom of the menu you will see a line
that says Properties.
5. Click on "Properties".
This will give you a multi page folder. The first page gives the paths
to SPITFIRE and the name of the batch file. Towards the bottom of the
first screen there is a box that says Close on exit.
A. Check the Close on exit box.
B. There is an Advanced button on this first screen. Click on Advanced.
C. Suggest MS-DOS mode as necessary should be checked. Click OK.
You can change the icon from here if you wish. At the top of the
folder you should see a tab that says "Memory".
D. Click on the "Memory" Tab.
This will give you a page with four areas.
1. Conventional memory.
Total leave at Auto environment leave at Auto add a check to
the Protect box.
2. Expanded (EMS) memory.
Don't make any changes.
3. Extended (XMS) memory.
Should be set to None since SPITFIRE doesn't use it.
4. MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory.
Leave this set to Auto.
At the the top of the folder there is a tab that says "Misc".
E. Click on "Misc".
This will give you a screen with eight options. Be careful in this
area as you can adversely effect the operation of SPITFIRE in this
screen.
1. Foreground Operation.
Remove check from allow Screen Saver. Windows screen savers
will keep SPITFIRE from answering calls.
2. Background.
Remove check from always suspend. If you don't remove this
check SPITFIRE will lock anytime it is not on top.
3. Idle Sensitivity.
Put the slide bar all the way to the left at "Low". This will
give SPITFIRE the clock cycles it need to continue working
properly even in the background.
4. In the Mouse area you have two blocks.
a. Quick Edit.
Take the check off. Windows editors don't work on SPITFIRE.
b. Exclusive Mode.
Take the check mark off here. SPITFIRE doesn't use a mouse.
5. Termination
"Warn if still active" should be checked. If we try to click
on the X box on the top right corner of the DOS Window you
will be told that SPITFIRE is still active and ask if you
are sure you want to terminate the program and to do so may
risk losing important data.
6. Other.
"Fast Paste", remove the check. There is nothing in SPITFIRE we
need to copy to the Windows Clipboard.
7. Windows Shortcut Keys.
The only one we need checked is "Alt+Enter". This is how we
switch SPITFIRE from a DOS Window to full screen. If you
remove this check mark you will end up putting SPITFIRE
full screen and not be able to get it back to a window so
you can do other things without shutting down SPITFIRE.
At the bottom of the folder page there is a button that says
Apply.
8. Click Apply.
This will close the properties @applet.
Congratulations you have you have successfully completed your
mission of setting the properties required to run SPITFIRE with
Windows 95. I hope this has been of some help.
If you need additional assistance in setting up SPITFIRE and Win
95 I will be more than happy to share my limited experience with this
endeavor. You are more than welcome to contact me Mon. through Fri.
6:30 PM until 11:00 PM, Sat. Sun. and Holidays 07:30 AM until 11:30
PM at:
Popsicle's Place BBS
Node 1 (817)-690-3865
Node 2 (817)-690-3294
SFNet Node A0817000
Mark Pospisil
Or Voice (817)-690-2496
If you find any further information or better setting please pass
the information along to me. I'm trying to collect as many helpful
hints as possible for other SPITFIRE sysops.