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Information about “HDM IV: HARD DISK MENU SYSTEM”
HARD DISK MENU IV or HDM is a hard disk menuing utility of the finest
commercial quality in a shareware package. Access and execute up to
100,000 different programs with this utility. HDM IV offers a
multitude
of features including multiple and independent menu modules with each
having its own color and other set up characteristics, multiple levels
of security, color and border control, mouse sensitivity, macros,
command line arguments and the most striking ability to accomplish
timed execution of programs; this latter feature being enough of a
reason
to purchase this utility! HDM IV can be operated within about 90% of
it's abilities without ever consulting the documentation and the only
confusion the user may encounter is centered around the use of macros
and switching from one menu module to another. You will especially like
the ability of HDM IV to execute programs at any time of day or week
with it's "timed" program execution option. This feature alone is
reason enough to purchase this splendid shareware utility. Jim Hass,
the program author, offers various levels of licensing for HDM IV,
beginning with a single user package rate of thirty-five dollars; the
printed manual is an additional fifteen dollars. HDM IV offers all of
the features of DIRECT ACCESS, a commercial hard disk menuing program,
and a good deal more; a substantial value for your dollar!
DIAL.DOC
DIAL T# [Modem-Commands~][Phone-Number]
T = Dial type (Tone or Pulse): must be T or P.
# = Serial port number (1 - 4).
Modem-Commands = Optional intialization strings.
(no embedded or ending spaces, end with ~)
Phone-Number = Maximum of 36 characters, no embedded spaces.
EXAMPLE: dial T1 1(216)931-1212
dial P2 9,654-7171
dial T3 18003334444
This program dials the phone for you through a Hayes compatible modem.
It will tell you to pick up the phone when dialing is completed. It
can optionally pass an initialization string to the modem before the
dialing. Each initializing modem command must end with a tilde (~),
you can have up to 15 of these commands. You can send modem commands
without dialing a number.
EXAMPLE: dial T1 S11=30~1(216)931-1212
dial P2 M0~S0=0~9,654-7171
dial T3 M0~S0=0~
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Copyright (c) 1986-1990 by Jim Hass
Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals
MicroFox Company
P.O. Box 447
Richfield, OH
44286-0447 USA
CompuServe Mail: 73057,3113
EZT.DOC
EZ-TREE
EZ-Tree is a genealogy program to track and report on family trees.
The program records information in variable length records and fields
with the following maximum field sizes:
First Name . . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
Middle Name . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
Last Name . . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
Maiden Name . . . . . . . . . . 16 characters
Sex (M or F) . . . . . . . . . . 1 character
Birth Date & Information . . . . 32 characters
Death Date & Information . . . . 32 characters
Personal Comments . . . . . . . 144 characters
Marriage Date & Information . . 32 characters
Divorce Date & Information . . . 32 characters
Marriage & Divorce Notes . . . . 144 characters
You can keep track of up to 16 marriages per person and up to 32
children per marriage. There is no logical limit to the number of
generations you can have for each family tree. There are provisions
currently in the program to handle 90 different family trees with 200
people and marriages per family tree. Both of these last two numbers
will be increased in the future.
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
There is only one file (EZT.COM) you need to run EZ-Tree. To start
the program simply key in EZT and press the ENTER key. The program
will create other files that it uses to store information in. They
are:
CONFIG.EZT used to store program configuration info.
FAMILY.EZT used to store an index to the family trees.
TREE1.EZT - TREE90.EZT stores all the family tree data.
MAIN MENU
To choose an entry from the main menu use the up and down arrow keys
to highlight the one you want to use, then press the ENTER key; or
just press the first letter of the entry. The first entry you may
want to choose is the Modify configuration entry. This lets you
choose a different disk drive and directory to store the Family and
Tree files if you need to do that. This would actually allow you to
use more than 90 family trees by putting 90 families in each
directory you create for that purpose. Also with this entry you can
change your screen colors and the screen save time out feature that
will blank out the screen after a certain amount of time.
The next entry you will choose is either Create a new family tree or
Retrieve an existing one. To create a new one, choose the Create
option, then key in a description of the family tree your creating.
You can use up to 60 characters. Next you would choose Work on the
current family tree to start entering the detailed information. If
you already had some family trees created and chose the Retrieve a
family tree entry, you would be presented with a list of available
family trees. To choose one use the up or down arrow keys to
highlight the one you want and press the ENTER key. Then you would
choose Work on current family tree.
The remaining main menu entries allow you to save the family tree on
disk any time while your working on it or to delete the current
family tree from the index and from your disk.
WORKING ON A FAMILY TREE
You start by keying in information about the first person you want to
add to the family tree. Pressing ENTER takes you to the next field
until all fields are used. Then the person's name is displayed in a
box in the upper left hand corner of the screen and a function key
menu is displayed below it. Press the F1 (help) key to see the
details of what each key on the keyboard will do. Press any key to
return. You can now add parents to the person you keyed in or add a
spouse. The top two boxes are always used to display a husband and
wife if there is a marriage. Children are added and displayed below
the couple. The ESCAPE key can be used at any time to cancel or back
out of any procedure.
REPORTS
Presently there are three reports that can be produced by using the
F9 (list) key. More will be added later. You can get detailed
information about the person currently highlighted by the cursor, a
report on all people in the current family tree, and a list of all
descendents of the person currently highlighted by the cursor. The
detailed report and the report on all people have reference numbers
listed in front of each person. This lets you locate information on
a person by that reference number because the report is produced in
reference number sequence. The descendents report puts an asterisk
in front of people who are related by marriage, but are not actually
in the blood line. A listing can be directed to your printer or to
the screen and it can be cancelled any time by pressing the ESCAPE
key.
MORE INFORMATION, SUGGESTIONS, & PROBLEMS
Write to:
Jim Hass
P.O. Box 447
Richfield, OH
44286-0447
FILE0631.TXT
Disk No: 631
Disk Title: HDM IV: Hard Disk Menu System
PC-SIG Version: S3.2
Program Title: HDM IV: Hard Disk Menu System
Author Version: 2.50
Author Registration: $35.00 to $50.00
Special Requirements: None.
HARD DISK MENU IV or HDM is a hard disk menuing utility of the finest
commercial quality in a shareware package. Access and execute up to
10,000 different programs with this utility. HDM IV offers a multitude
of features including multiple and independent menu modules with each
having its own color and other set up characteristics, multiple levels
of security, color and border control, mouse sensitivity, macros,
command line arguements and the most striking ability to accomplish
timed excution of programs; this latter feature being enough of a reason
to purchase this utility! HDM IV can be operated within about 90% of
it's abilities without ever consulting the documentation and the only
confusion the user may encounter is centered around the use of macros
and switching from one menu module to another. You will especially like
the ability of HDM IV to execute programs at any time of day or week
with it's 'timed' program execution option. This feature alone is
reason enough to purchase this splendid shareware utility. Jim Hass,
the program author, offers various levels of licensing for HDM IV,
beginning with a single user package rate of twenty-five dollars; the
printed manual is an additional fifteen dollars. HDM IV offers all of
the features of DIRECT ACCESS, a commercial hard disk menuing program,
and a good deal more; a substantial value for your dollar!
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
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(c) Copyright 1990, PC-SIG Inc.
HISTORY.DOC
HDM IV - Version 2 (HDM420)
The following features and functions have been added to the Hard
Disk Menu IV version 2:
HDM IV now works with DR-DOS, EZ-DOS, and 4DOS. The CALL
command is no longer automatically added to the beginning of
each command in X.BAT for users of DOS 3.3 and above. Instead
you can use the CALL command to run batch files by putting the
CALL right in the menu action like this:
C:~CD\DSPLYWRT~CALL DW5~
or you can use the @@ in front of batch file names:
C:~CD\DSPLYWRT~@@DW5~
The @@ has the advantage
of working with all versions of DOS, @@ is replaced by COMMAND
/C if your running DOS 3.2 or under, else it will be replaced by
CALL. This was done because of compatibility problems with DOS
clones. CALL did not work with 4DOS aliases, nor did it work
with EZ-DOS/DR-DOS internal commands.
New alternate user interfaces using the Local Switch <F8> menu
entry. The new screen is more consistent with the opening logo
screen. You can switch back to the HDM IV version 1 screen any
time. <F8> also switches the Page Index and the Main Menu
windows.
The customized logo screen available using the -H startup switch
and the HDM.HDR file now affect both boxes on the screen. A
sample HDM.HDR file is included on the HDM disk.
1000 menu files now available, named HDM.000 through HDM.999.
Use the UPDATE.BAT file to retain your current menu entries.
New startup switches, -0 through -9 tell HDM where to find each
set of 100 menu files. If you use the -T startup switch it will
still tell where the rest of the HDM.000 - HDM.999 and the
HDM.CFG (formally HDMENU.TGL) files reside. The default path
for the files is the HDM startup directory.
EXAMPLE: HDM -0C:\MYMENUS -1H:\NETMENUS -9D:\UTILMENU
HDM.000 - HDM.099 files are located on C:\MYMENUS directory.
HDM.100 - HDM.199 files are located on H:\NETMENUS directory.
HDM.900 - HDM.999 files are located on D:\UTILMENU directory.
The macro parameters %1 through %9 can now be put in braces so
they are executed immediately instead of waiting until all other
functions in braces are evaluated.
EXAMPLE: {&0 {?Dir Name}}{run! dir {%1}}type {?File Name}~
The help text has been separated from the HDMENU.EXE file so it
won't be loaded if you don't press F1. The help text is in the
file HDM.HLP and the executable program is HDM4.EXE. The
program must still be started with HDM.BAT.
New date and time formats have been added to the Global pull
down menu for European date and Military (24 hour) clock.
A log file is written to the HDM directory if a user is logged
on (using an entry from the User ID table in the Security pull
down window) and HDM is started with the -L switch like this:
HDM -L or it can be written to a different directory if
you add that path to the -L switch: HDM -LC:\LOGDIR
The log file has the following format:
YYYYMMDDHR:MNX[???]=description
YYYYMMDD is the year, month, and day (19890728).
HR:MN is the hour and minute of the 24 hour clock (14:25).
X is the day of the week (1=Sunday,7=Saturday).
[???]=description is:
[LOG]=Name of person who logged on.
[OFF]=Name of person who logged off.
[RUN]=Description of what is being run.
[END]=End of run.
The three digit menu file number has been added to the User ID
table so that each user can start at a different menu file when
they log on.
You can create your own individual help screen for each menu
entry. A file that is named P#.###, where P# is the page letter
and menu entry number and ### is the menu file number, is
display if the cursor is on that entry and the F1 key is
pressed. The help screen is 21 lines by 76 characters for each
line. A sample file, A1.000, is included as an example.
You can now password protect one page. The security levels for
the main menu entries are now: Individual password overrides a
page password which overrides the password for all entries.
Free disk space can now be displayed at the bottom of the
screen. If you want to see available space for a disk drive use
the -D startup switch. Example: -DD will display available disk
space on the D: drive. If -D is used without a drive letter,
then the drive that HDM was started on will be used.
New menu action function: {COLOR Fg Bg} sets DOS color. Fg is
a foreground color numbered from 0 to 15, Bg is a background
color numbered from 0 to 7. This will set the DOS screen color
for the current menu entry only. It will not work if ANSI.SYS
is loaded in the CONFIG.SYS file. 0=Black, 1=Blue, 2=Green,
3=Cyan, 4=Red, 5=Magenta, 6=Yellow, 7=White, 8-15 are the bright
versions of these colors. Example: {Color 15 1} is bright white
on blue.
New menu action function: {REBOOT} Used to re-boot your
computer. This can be used to change the setup of your
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and then restart your system for
another application like Windows, Desqview, etc. with HDM
automatically starting it with the -A switch. Example:
COPY C:\CONFIG.NEW C:\CONFIG.SYS~COPY C:\AUTOEXEC.NEW
C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT~{REBOOT}
New menu action function: {SELECT prompt~choice1~choice2~...choice9}
This will display a menu of
choices in a window with the "prompt" used as a title. The
users choice from the list will replace everything in the braces
in the menu action. Use the tilde (~) to separate the prompt
and the choices. A choice can be selected with the mouse or
keyboard arrow keys and the <Enter> key. You can also select a
choice by pressing the first letter, if two or more choices have
the same first letter, the last one with that letter will be
selected. Example:
DIR {SELECT Pick a directory~C:\DIR1~C:\DIR2~C:\DIR3~C:\DIR4~C:\DIR5}
HDM no longer automatically adds the directory that contains
X.BAT to the path if it isn't already there. This has caused
problems for some network users. You must insure that the DOS
path includes the directory that X.BAT will be written to. It
will be either the HDM default directory or the one pointed to
by -W if that startup switch is used.
Example: PATH C:\;C:\HDM;C:\DOS
If you don't include this directory in the
path, you will probably get a "Bad command or file name"
message from DOS when you key in X to return to HDM.
(HDM421)
-P is a new HDM startup switch that can be used in the command
line or the DOS environment to stop the cursor from wrapping to
the previous page or to the next page when you try to go past
the top or bottom of a page. This also causes the cursor to
stop at all menu entries, even the empty ones. This is probably
most useful for people who use a mouse, moving up and down will
go to menu entries in the same page while moving side to side
will move through the pages. Command line: HDM -P
DOS environment: SET HDM=-P
Alt-1 through Alt-0 are new alternate keys for A - J to go
directly to a page.
You can now protect a menu file from being changed while still
allowing the entries to be run without a password. Use the
"File change password" in the Security menu to protect Menu,
Page, Security, and Local menus for the current menu file only.
(HDM422)
The number of users available in the USER ID TABLE has been
increased to 99.
A new entry has been added to the MENU pull-down menu, SAVE MENU
(Alt-F5). This entry will save all changes to disk. You will
normally not need to use this because HDM IV automatically saves
changes to disk when you run a menu entry, when you display the
logo screen, when you exit to DOS, use the DOS window, or after
one minute of keyboard/mouse inactivity. The reason for this
new command is if you make a change and want to turn your system
off or reboot immediately, you should save the changes you made
first by pressing Alt-F5 or choose "Save menu".
A new starup switch, -K, causes the Key lock status to not be
displayed, and does not update the on-screen date & time. This
is needed if you run another program with HDM in the background
and the Key status, date, and time bleed through to that screen.
Put HDM -K or Set HDM=-K in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
When you create a new menu file with the {menu ###} action function
the new menu file will take on the attributes of the menu file it
was created from. That is the colors, borders, user interface,
titles, and macros will be the same.
The number of entries in the Timed Execution Facility has been
increased to 99.
(HDM423)
You can now pass an initialization string to your modem using the
{DIAL} function. This can be done with or without dialing a number.
You can now use the curly braces {} and the tilde ~ characters in a
menu action by using substitute characters for them. The braces are
used to identify a menu function and the tilde is used as the command
separator so they cannot be entered directly to be used in a command
or program. Use <Ctrl-Q> for {, <Ctrl-P> for }, and <Ctrl-Z> for ~.
A new parameter has been added to the menu action. %0 will always
contain the complete reply to a {?} prompt function so it can be used
later in the same menu action. %1 through %9 will still contain the
first nine parameters of a macro.
You can now log all usage through the menu without having to log on
as a user in the ID table. The -L switch by itself controls whether
logging is done to the HDM.LOG file.
(HDM424)
A screen border is displayed on color monitors. It will be the same
color as the status line. You can use the -I startup switch to
Inactivate the border if you don't want one. There is also one more
set of screen interfaces available by pressing the F6 key. Each set
of interfaces include the Page Index and Main Menu on opposite sides
of the screen. The original HDM IV version 1 interface does not show
screen borders at any time.
A bug was fixed that showed up if you had a Hidden Top Menu. The F4
key didn't work when adding or changing a menu entry. F4 is used to
display the menu action Build screen. It always worked if the Top
Menu was not hidden, now it also works if it is hidden.
New user defined help screens can now be displayed for an entire menu
file. These work just like the individual help screens for each menu
entry, but are only displayed if there is no individual help file for
the current menu entry. These new generic help files must be named
HELP.000 through HELP.999, while the individual help files are named
for the menu entry and the menu file number: A1.000 through J0.999.
The priority for help screens displayed when F1 is pressed is now:
1. The individual help screen if a matching file exists; H4.500 if
you are in menu file 500 (HDM.500) and the cursor is on entry H4.
2. The generic menu file help screen if a matching file exist;
HELP.500 if you are in menu file 500 and the cursor is on a menu
entry that does not have a matching individual help file.
3. The default HDM help screen, if neither of the above files exist.
Pressing F1 a second time still gives you the HDM help menu & screens.
The layout is the same for all help files; an ASCII text file with
21 lines and 76 characters per line.
(HDM425)
A new function, {BEEP!}, was added to sound the speaker to alert
a user to an HDM event, like a prompt needs to be answered or a
{SELECT} menu entry needs to be chosen. The difference between
the current {BEEP} function and new the {BEEP!} is that {BEEP}
gets replaced by a Ctrl-G so that DOS will sound the speaker when
it gets to it in the temporary work file, X.BAT. {BEEP!} will
sound immediately at the time that HDM is evaluating funtions.
EXAMPLE: C:~CD\EDIT~{BEEP}~EDIT {?ENTER FILE NAME}~
In this example, {BEEP} is replaced by Ctrl-G before the prompt
shows, but you won't hear it until DOS reads the X.BAT file,
which is after all functions are resolved and the batch file is
turned over to DOS for execution. Use {BEEP!} in this case to
sound the speaker before the prompt is displayed. Use {BEEP} to
signal the end of a long running program.
An * now displays in the lower right hand corner of the screen
when the menu file has been changed, but the changes have not
been recorded to disk yet. The changes are automatically written
to disk when your run a menu entry, when you go to the logo
screen or another menu file, or after one minute of keyboard and
mouse inactivity.
A new menu action function, {VSELECT}, has been added to HDM. It
works exactly like the current {SELECT} function, but displays
the menu entries vertically. Also, the menu entry picked from
{SELECT} or {VSELECT} is kept in the %0 parameter, just like the
answer to a {?prompt} function is. If you need the menu pick in
additional locations in the menu action, just put %0 in all those
places.
INTRO.DOC
Hard Disk Menu (HDM) IV
This program is a DOS shell that hides the underlying operating
system from the uninitiated user, yet does not get in the way of
the expert user. The basic system consist of up to one thousand
menu files with ten menu pages each, and each page has ten
entries for a total of 100,000 entries to choose from. You can
start an entry by pointing to it with the cursor or the mouse,
then press the <Enter> key or the left mouse button, or you can
simply press the number key associated with that entry. Each
entry can start a program, run a batch file, or execute any DOS
command. An entry can also have multiple steps which can include
any or all of the possibilities above plus special HDM functions
and macros. You can change menu pages by pressing the <A> through
<J> keys or the <Alt-1> through <Alt-0> keys to go directly to
page "A" through "J" or use the <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys. Each page
and each entry on each page has a user definable description. You
can go to another Menu File by using the action function {MENU
###}. The Menu Files are numbered from zero to 999.
The <F10> key displays a horizontal menu at the top of the
screen. The choices from the menu include: Menu, Page, Security,
Local, Global, or Exit. Help can be selected any time and
presents you with another menu and screens that explain how to
use the Hard Disk Menu System. MENU allows you to add, change,
delete, move, or copy the menu entry descriptions and their
associated menu action. PAGE lets you change the description of a
Page Index entry, import pages, switch pages, or delete pages.
SECURITY allows you to set up user logons and password protect
menu entries. LOCAL lets you set up variables in the current menu
file and GLOBAL lets you set up variables that affect all menu
files. EXIT leaves HDM and returns you to the DOS prompt or opens
a DOS window where you can run any DOS command, program, or batch
file. Other commands in the Top Menu allow you to set up macros,
menu titles, change colors and window borders, set mouse
sensitivity, set communications parameters, set time for
automatic blanking of the menu screen, and set up hands off timed
execution of any menu entry any time of the day, week, or month.
The user defined menu entries consist of two parts. The first one
is a 48 character description that is displayed on the screen and
can be anything you want. This is what you choose to start a menu
entry from the main menu. The second part of this menu entry is
the menu action. This tells HDM what to do when this menu entry
is started. The menu action can contain anything that you would
normally put in a DOS batch file, plus functions and macros that
give you additional flexibility, ease of use, and capabilities
beyond DOS and other menu systems.
Help is always available. Press <F1> from anywhere in the Hard
Disk Menu to get the help menu and help screens. Help topics are
displayed at the left side of the screen and a description of
each topic is displayed on the right side of the screen. You can
move up and down through the help topics or press the letter
associated with it and the information on that topic will
immediately be displayed in the help text window at the right.
You can also get help on the keys available when you are in the
main menu. Just press <?> from the main menu and a help window
will open with information specific to that menu. It is also
possible to set up custom help for any menu entries that you
want. See the sample file A1.000 on your distribution disk.
The Hard Disk Menu is not memory resident. When you run a
program, HDM gets out of memory completely so that all system ram
is available for your use. HDM is then automatically called back
into memory when your program is finished.
HDM also has the ability to log user activity by writing
information to a file every time a user logs on or off, and every
time a menu entry is run. To use the log file you must set up at
least one user logon ID in the Security pull down menu and you
must start HDM with the -L startup switch. The log file is an
ASCII text file with the following format:
YYYYMMDDHR:MND[xxx]=Msg
YYYY = Year; MM = Month; DD = Day; HR = Hour (0-23); MN = Minute;
D = Day of week; [xxx] = LOG, OFF, RUN, or END; Msg = User ID or
Menu description of what was run.
HDM allows you to put passwords on any entries in the main menu
and on the commands in the pull down windows. This can be done
either at the group level via the Security pull down window or by
putting the cursor on any main menu entry or pull down menu
command and pressing the Alt-F1 key.
You can customize the opening logo screen by using the -H startup
switch and putting your own company logo in the file HDM.HDR. You
can also create custom help screens for each main menu entry by
creating a text file with a name that uses a combination of the
menu entry page letter and number and the menu file number. For
example custom help for menu entry B5 in menu file HDM.333 would
be named B5.333. When F1 is pressed while the cursor is on that
entry, your custom help is displayed before the normal HDM help
screens.
There are many features built into the Hard Disk Menu for use on
local area networks. One that must be used is the -W startup
switch. This tells HDM where to keep the work file that it uses
to keep track of information for each user. The -T and -0 through
-9 startup switches also can help with network environments as
can some of the security features.
INVOICE.DOC
INVOICE # 072848-425
Remit to: Jim Hass P.O. # _________________
MicroFox Co.
P.O. Box 447
Richfield, OH DATE _________________
44286-0447 U.S.A.
______________________________________________________________________
Registered HDM disk and printed manual sent .... $50 U.S.
Number of disks & manuals __________ SUBTOTAL __________
HDM Network License (price per network) .... $200.00 U.S.
Number of networks __________ SUBTOTAL __________
HDM Site License (unlimited per site) ...... $600.00 U.S.
Number of sites __________ SUBTOTAL __________
Corporate License (unlimited) .. $1200.00 U.S. SUBTOTAL __________
Each License includes a master disk and printed manual,
additional disks ($5 each) and manuals ($10 each) are available.
______________________________________________________________________
Ohio residents add 5.5% sales tax SALES TAX __________
Shipping charges: U.S.A. ...... $3 each SHIPPING __________
Canada ...... $4 each
All others .. $7 each
TOTAL __________
______________________________________________________________________
Name ___________________________________________________
Company ___________________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Phone ___________________________________________________
Disk media: _____ 5.25" acceptable _____ 3.5" required
FOREIGN ORDERS: Please make checks payable in U.S. funds from a U.S. bank.
KEY.DOC
KEY k1 k2 k3 k4 k5 k6 k7 k8 k9 k10 k11 k12 k13 k14 k15
This DOS utility allows you to pass up to fifteen keys to a
program that uses the standard DOS keyboard buffer. This will
allow you to automate some procedures in the programs that you
start from batch files. This will not work with all programs
because some of them will clear the buffer as soon as they start
and some others will ignore the DOS buffer and use their own
keyboard buffer. Another reason this might not work is if your
are using a memory resident keyboard enhancement program that
expands the size of the buffer. You will have to test it with
your programs to see if it works for you. Fortunately it will
work with most programs.
NOTE: Each key and key mnemonic must be separated by a space.
Sample batch file: C:
CD\LOTUS
KEY / F R B U D G E T ENTR
123
This will start Lotus 123 and put the above ten keys in the DOS
keyboard buffer which would automatically retrieve the file named
"BUDGET".
You can pass any key on the IBM keyboard plus the following list
of key mnemonics.
KEY REAL KEY KEY REAL KEY KEY REAL KEY
--- -------- --- -------- --- --------
CA Ctrl-A CB Ctrl-B CC Ctrl-C
CD Ctrl-D CE Ctrl-E CF Ctrl-F
CG Ctrl-G CH Ctrl-H CI Ctrl-I
CJ Ctrl-J CK Ctrl-K CL Ctrl-L
CM Ctrl-M CN Ctrl-N CO Ctrl-O
CP Ctrl-P CQ Ctrl-Q CR Ctrl-R
CS Ctrl-S CT Ctrl-T CU Ctrl-U
CV Ctrl-V CW Ctrl-W CX Ctrl-X
CY Ctrl-Y CZ Ctrl-Z SP Space
C[ Ctrl-[ C] Ctrl-] C\ Ctrl-\
C2 Ctrl-2 C6 Ctrl-6 C- Ctrl- -
ENTR Enter ESC Escape CBRK Ctrl-Break
BSP Back Space CBSP Ctrl-Back Space TAB Tab
STAB Shift-Tab AA Alt-A AB Alt-B
AC Alt-C AD Alt-D AE Alt-E
AF Alt-F AG Alt-G AH Alt-H
AI Alt-I AJ Alt-J AK Alt-K
AL Alt-L AM Alt-M AN Alt-N
AO Alt-O AP Alt-P AQ Alt-Q
AR Alt-R AS Alt-S AT Alt-T
AU Alt-U AV Alt-V AW Alt-W
AX Alt-X AY Alt-Y AZ Alt-Z
F1 F1 F2 F2 F3 F3
F4 F4 F5 F5 F6 F6
F7 F7 F8 F8 F9 F9
F10 F10 F11 F11 F12 F12
AF1 Alt-F1 AF2 Alt-F2 AF3 Alt-F3
AF4 Alt-F4 AF5 Alt-F5 AF6 Alt-F6
AF7 Alt-F7 AF8 Alt-F8 AF9 Alt-F9
AF10 Alt-F10 AF11 Alt-F11 AF12 Alt-F12
CF1 Ctrl-F1 CF2 Ctrl-F2 CF3 Ctrl-F3
CF4 Ctrl-F4 CF5 Ctrl-F5 CF6 Ctrl-F6
CF7 Ctrl-F7 CF8 Ctrl-F8 CF9 Ctrl-F9
CF10 Ctrl-F10 CF11 Ctrl-F11 CF12 Ctrl-F12
SF1 Shift-F1 SF2 Shift-F2 SF3 Shift-F3
SF4 Shift-F4 SF5 Shift-F5 SF6 Shift-F6
SF7 Shift-F7 SF8 Shift-F8 SF9 Shift-F9
SF10 Shift-F10 SF11 Shift-F11 SF12 Shift-F12
LAR Left Arrow RAR Right Arrow UAR Up Arrow
CLAR Ctrl-Left Arrow CRAR Ctrl-Right Arrow DAR Down Arrow
HOM Home END End INS Insert
CHOM Ctrl-Home CEND Ctrl-End DEL Delete
PGU PgUp PGD PgDn CPRT Ctrl-PrtSc
CPGU Ctrl-PgUp CPGD Ctrl-PgDn
A1 Alt-1 A2 Alt-2 A3 Alt-3
A4 Alt-4 A5 Alt-5 A6 Alt-6
A7 Alt-7 A8 Alt-8 A9 Alt-9
A0 Alt-0 A- Alt- - A= Alt-=
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Copyright (c) 1986-1990 by Jim Hass
Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals
MicroFox Company
P.O. Box 447
Richfield, OH
44286-0447 USA
CompuServe Mail: 73057,3113
LIST.DOC
LIST for ASCII text files only!
Usage: LIST [DRIVE:\PATH\FILENAME] [-P] [-M##] [-N] [-L###] [-C###]
If the file name is not entered on the command line, the program will ask for it
-P will print the file (the default is to display it on the screen)
-M and a number from 0 to 99 will print a left margin of that many spaces.
-N will not print headers on each page (the default is to print headers)
-L and a number (1 to 250) tells how many lines to print before a form feed
-L0 will not issue any form feeds (continuous print with no headers)
(the default is 60)
-C and a number from 1 to 250 tells how many copies to print
(the default is 1)
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Copyright (c) 1986-1990 by Jim Hass
Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals
MicroFox Company
P.O. Box 447
Richfield, OH
44286-0447 USA
CompuServe Mail: 73057,3113
ORDER.DOC
HDM 4.25 REGISTRATION AND ORDER FORM
Send to: Jim Hass P.O. # _________________
MicroFox Co.
P.O. Box 447
Richfield, OH DATE _________________
44286-0447 USA
Registration of currently used HDM ............. $35 U.S.
Number currently used __________ SUBTOTAL __________
Fully Registered HDM Disk & Printed Manual ..... $50 U.S.
Number of disks & manuals __________ SUBTOTAL __________
HDM Network License (price per network) .... $200.00 U.S.
Number of networks __________ SUBTOTAL __________
HDM Site License (unlimited per site) ...... $600.00 U.S.
Number of sites __________ SUBTOTAL __________
Corporate License (unlimited) .. $1200.00 U.S. SUBTOTAL __________
Each License includes a master disk and printed manual,
additional disks ($5 each) and manuals ($10 each) are available.
______________________________________________________________________
Ohio residents only, add 5.5% sales tax SALES TAX __________
All orders must > U.S.A. ...... $3 each SHIPPING __________
add Shipping and > Canada ...... $4 each
Handling charges > All others .. $7 each
TOTAL __________
______________________________________________________________________
User Name ___________________________________________________
Company ___________________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Phone ___________________________________________________
Disk media: _____ 5.25" acceptable _____ 3.5" required
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SPECIAL OFFER FOR PC USER GROUP MEMBERS AND BBS USERS
______________________________________________________________________
You can receive the full $50 registered version of the Hard Disk Menu
for $39 by helping to distribute HDM IV to others. Just give a copy
of the HDM disk to your PC user group's IBM disk librarian or upload
it to a bulletin board, then fill out the form below. Cross out the
$50 charge on the order form, write in $39. Return it with this page.
IBM PC User Group Name _______________________________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Bulletin Board Name __________________________________________________
BBS Phone Number _____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
LIMITED LICENSES AVAILABLE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
______________________________________________________________________
Businesses with a small number of PC's that can not justify the cost
of unlimited Network, Site, or Corporate Licenses can replace those on
the first page of this order form with the following Licenses:
Limited Network License (less than 10 PC's on one network).. $120 U.S.
Limited Site License ... (less than 30 PC's at one site).... $360 U.S.
Limited Corporate License (less than 60 PC's at all sites).. $720 U.S.
Just sign the following statement and make the appropriate changes to
the first page of this order form.
I CERTIFY THAT I WILL NOT USE THE HARD DISK MENU SYSTEM ON MORE THAN
THE ABOVE DESIGNATED NUMBER OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS.
Signed __________________________________
Title ___________________________________
NOTE: Any HDM License can be upgraded to any other HDM License at any
time for the difference in price between the two Licenses.
FOREIGN ORDERS PLEASE NOTE:
U.S. banks won't accept checks drawn on foreign banks. Please make
checks payable in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank. As a second
choice you can send cash (U.S. or your own). Thank you.
_______________________________________________________________________
<ASP> Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals. You can
contact MicroFox Company via CompuServe Mail: 73057,3113 (Jim Hass)
______________________________________________________________________
README.DOC
HDM IV (tm) (ASP)
Hard Disk Menu (tm) April 20, 1990
Copyright (c) 1986-90 by Jim Hass All rights reserved world wide
To install HDM IV for the first time:
1. Put the HDM IV diskette in drive A:
2. Key in A: to switch to drive A:
3. Key in INSTALL C:\HDM where C:\HDM is the dir to install to.
NOTE: DO NOT INSTALL HDM IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY!
To update an existing Hard Disk Menu system:
1. Put the HDM IV diskette in drive A:
2. Key in A: to switch to drive A:
3. Key in UPDATE C:\HDM where C:\HDM is the dir that contains HDM
To start the Hard Disk Menu IV: change to the directory that it was
installed in and key in HDM, then press ENTER.
After starting HDM IV, press <F1> and read the Help Screens.
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These are the files you need to run the Hard Disk Menu:
HDM.BAT The batch file that must start the Hard Disk Menu System.
HDM4.EXE The main program used by the Hard Disk Menu system.
HDM.000-999 Files used by HDM IV to hold configuration and menu info.
HELP.EXE Hard Disk Menu help. (only needed if your press F1)
DIAL.EXE HDM phone dialer. (only needed if using {DIAL} function)
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There are also many utilities on the disk that are not required to run
HDM. You may find some of them useful. HDMDOC.EXE is a Self-Extracting
file that contains HDM's manual and documentation on the utilities.
NOTE: To extract the HDM documentation, just run HDMDOC on your hard
disk. It needs 400K of disk space.
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Jim Hass Electronic Mail
MicroFox Co. CompuServe
P.O. Box 447 73057,3113
Richfield, OH 44286-0447 U.S.A.
(ASP) Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS WHEN RUNNING HDM IV:
If you have snow on your screen, start HDM with the -S switch.
If your screen is unreadable because of current color selections,
start with the -V switch.
If HDM doesn't seem to run correctly, check the following:
Make sure you have only one COMMAND.COM on your hard disk in the
root directory, and you have a path to it. Make sure you also
have a path to the HDM directory and that you start HDM while
in its own directory.
Example of starting HDM from your AUTOEXEC.BAT: PATH C:\;C:\HDM
CD\HDM
HDM -S -V
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HDM IV (tm) Hard Disk Menu (tm) Copyright (C) 1986-90 by Jim Hass
--------------------------------(ASP)--------------------------------
This is a shareware product. Though HDM IV is copyrighted, you are
encouraged to copy and distribute this program to others. If you like
this product and find it useful, then please register it.
REGISTRATION FEES:
Register a currently used HDM (no disk or manual sent) ......... $ 35
Get registered copy of HDM IV with printed & bound manual ...... $ 50
HDM IV Network License (price per network) .................... $ 200
HDM IV Site License (unlimited copies for one site) ........... $ 600
HDM IV Corporate License (unlimited copies for one company) .. $ 1200
extra HDM IV printed and bound user manual (price per manual) .. $ 15
extra HDM IV diskettes (registered users only) ................. $ 10
Educational discounts are available for schools, universities, etc.
Special terms are available for consultants, distributors, & stores.
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With your support, the Hard Disk Menu can continue to be improved and
expanded. The product is distributed by satisfied users. Please help
by giving copies to friends, customers, user groups, your company, or
by uploading to local bulletin boards. Thank you for your support.
Send your comments, suggestions, questions, and registration to:
JIM HASS
MICROFOX COMPANY
P.O. BOX 447
RICHFIELD, OH, USA
44286-0447
ELECTRONIC MAIL
COMPUSERVE: 73057,3113
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HDM 999 6318 4-26-90 1:11p
HDM BAT 70 2-24-90 11:36a
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NECPIN EXE 12337 4-24-90 6:00p
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