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Information about “TUTOR DOS 1 OF 4 (2385-2387 ALSO)”
TUTOR DOS was created by a professional computer instructor to assist
beginners who are trying to learn DOS. It was written with the novice
in mind, and starts with the basics of RAM and DOS before moving on to
topics such as formatting disks, manipulating sub-directories, and
creating batch files.
TUTOR DOS consists of 21 interactive lessons. Students are able to
practice their newfound skills as they acquire them. TUTOR DOS will
recognize a variety of answers to its questions and prompts users with
hints. Each lesson ends with a short quiz to help students review what
they have learned. At the end of the program, students take a
multiple-choice test to evaluate their knowledge. Based on this test,
TUTOR DOS either recommends lessons for review or rewards the student
with a custom printed certificate.
FILE2384.TXT
Disk No: 2384
Disk Title: TUTOR DOS 1 of 4 (2385-2387 also)
PC-SIG Version: S1
Program Title: TUTOR DOS
Author Version: 1.1
Author Registration: $10.00
Special Requirements: None.
TUTOR DOS was created by a professional computer instructor to assist
beginners who are trying to learn DOS. It was written with the novice
in mind, and starts with the basics of RAM and DOS before moving on to
topics such as formatting disks, manipulating sub-directories, and even
creating batch files.
TUTOR DOS consists of 21 interactive lessons. Students are able to
practice their newfound skills as they acquire them. TUTOR DOS will
recognize a variety of answers to it's questions and prompts users with
hints. Each lesson ends with a short quiz to help students review what
they have learned. At the end of the program students take a
multiple-choice test to evaluate their knowledge. Based on this test,
TUTOR DOS either recommends lessons for review or rewards the student
with a custom printed certificate.
No license fee is required for public schools and other federal or state
sponsored learning facilities. Corporate licensing rates and customized
versions are also available.
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
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║ To install TUTOR DOS to your hard drive type: INSTALL ║
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║ To run TUTOR DOS, type: TUTORDOS ║
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║ To print the documentation, type: TUTORDOS.DOC ║
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(c) Copyright 1990, PC-SIG Inc.
TUTORDOS.DOC
TUTOR DOS
Copyright (C) 1989
Kevin L. Cummings
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
This program is distributed 'as is' without warranty of any kind,
either express or implied.
The author of this software shall not be liable to the user or
any other person or entity with respect to any liability, loss,
or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly
by this software.
TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MS-DOS and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines.
Que is a registered trademark of Que Corporation.
McGraw-Hill is a registered trademark of McGraw-Hill Corporation.
Video Professor is a registered trademark of Video Professor
Corporation.
WordPerfect is a registered trademark of WordPerfect Corporation.
Lotus and 1-2-3 are registered trademarks of Lotus Development
Corporation.
LICENSE AGREEMENT
License to use this software is limited to private individuals in
homes and use by public, non-profit, educational institutions
(including, but not limited to; public elementary and secondary
schools, public colleges and universities, and state and
federally operated training facilities).
ANY OTHER USE WILL BE CONSIDERED TO CONSTITUTE WILLFUL COPYRIGHT
VIOLATION.
Use of this program shall constitute agreement to these terms.
This program may be freely copied and distributed so long as no
fee (expect for media costs, under $7.00 U.S. per disk) is
charged, and the program is not modified in any way.
INTRODUCTION
Now that we have all of the legal stuff out of the way, I can get
on with telling you about the program. TUTOR DOS is an
interactive, beginner's DOS tutorial. It assumes that the user
knows virtually nothing about MS-DOS.
The program consists of an introduction, twenty-one lessons, a
final test, and a few closing remarks. The program is contained
in twenty-six program files, three batch files, and one
documentation file. (There is a complete list of the names of
these files at the end of this document.)
TUTOR DOS offers several advantages over currently available
commercial tutorials.
*TUTOR DOS was designed to talk 'to' you, rather than
'at' you.
*All of the lessons in TUTOR DOS are quite short and
none of them should take more than twenty to twenty-
five minutes to complete.
*You may use the [ESCAPE] key to exit any lesson at any
time.
*TUTOR DOS has been programmed to accept several
answers to each of its questions.
*If you give the wrong answer to a question, TUTOR
DOS will provide a hint.
*If you can't seem to get the right answer to a
question, keep trying. After you've tried three times,
TUTOR DOS will type the right answer for you.
*Each lesson ends with a quiz. These quizzes will help
you judge how well you've learned the material in each
lesson.
*The course ends with a comprehensive examination.
TUTOR DOS will analyze your answers and (if necessary)
give you a list of lessons to review.
*If you score over eighty percent on the test, TUTOR
DOS will print out a certificate of achievement with
your name on it.
*TUTOR DOS is distributed as SHAREWARE. If you enjoy
it, I ask that you send me a donation of ten dollars.
This is far less expensive than commercial DOS
tutorials which generally cost thirty to fifty dollars.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
TUTOR DOS has been designed with the average user in mind and,
therefore, will work on virtually any PC. The specific
requirements are:
256 K Random Access Memory
DOS 2.1 or higher
There are no other requirements. TUTOR DOS will run from floppy
disk drives (of any size) or from a hard disk drive. It will run
equally well on color and monochrome monitors.
INSTALLING TUTOR DOS
If you do not have a hard disk drive, or do not want to put TUTOR
DOS on your hard disk drive, no installation is necessary.
However, if you want to install TUTOR DOS on your hard disk
drive, all you have to do is follow these instructions:
1) Turn on your PC.
2) Wait for the prompt to appear on the monitor, it
should look something like C:\>, and it will be
followed by a small, blinking cursor.
3) Put TUTOR DOS disk number 1 in your A: disk drive. (If
you have more than one floppy disk drive, you'll have to
figure out which one is the A: disk drive. If your disk
drives are stacked on top of one another, this will be the
top disk drive. If they are side by side, it will be on the
left.)
4) Type A:INSTALL A C and press the [ENTER] key.
5) Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
USING TUTORDOS
If you are using TUTOR DOS from a disk drive, make sure that
TUTOR DOS disk number 1 is in the drive and the door is closed.
Type TUTORDOS and press [ENTER].
If you have installed TUTOR DOS on your hard disk drive, wait for
the C:\> and type TUTORDOS and press [ENTER].
In either case, after a moment, TUTOR DOS will begin to give you
instructions on the screen. From this point on, all you have to
do is follow these instructions.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
I have enjoyed putting this program together and I hope you have
enjoyed using it. If you have comments, please feel free to
write to me at the address given below:
Kevin L. Cummings
155 North Fort Lane "B"
Layton, UT 84041
Thanks for taking the time to use this tutorial and the best of
luck with your PC!
APPENDIX -- COMPLETE FILE LIST FOR TUTOR DOS
[Don't bother reading this unless you're a real computer junkie!]
Disk #1 Disk #2
TUTORDOS.EXE MENUDOS.TBC
MENUDOS.TBC DOS5.TBC
INTRO.TBC DOS6.TBC
DOS1.TBC DOS7.TBC
DOS2.TBC DOS8.TBC
DOS3.TBC DOS9.TBC
DOS4.TBC DOS10.TBC
INSTALL.BAT DOS11.TBC
HARDSTRT.BAT INSTALL.BAT
PRINTDOC.BAT
TUTORDOS.DOC
Disk #3 Disk #4
MENUDOS.TBC MENUDOS.TBC
DOS12.TBC DOS19.TBC
DOS13.TBC DOS20.TBC
DOS14.TBC DOS21.TBC
DOS15.TBC DOSTEST.TBC
DOS16.TBC FINAL.TBC
DOS17.TBC INSTALL.BAT
DOS18.TBC
INSTALL.BAT
The files called MENUDOS.TBC and INSTALL.BAT have been placed on
all four disks to aid beginning users and reduce the amount of
disk swapping.
TUTOR DOS was written using Borland International's TURBO BASIC
version 1.1. Portions of the program make use of Rick
Fothergill's public domain TBWINDO utilities.
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #2384
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
TUTORDOS EXE 82360 8-23-90 11:40a
MENUDOS TBC 29364 8-20-90 11:56a
INTRO TBC 31550 2-09-90 9:46a
DOS1 TBC 40095 2-09-90 9:43a
DOS2 TBC 34518 2-09-90 9:47a
DOS3 TBC 41205 2-09-90 9:48a
DOS4 TBC 65225 2-09-90 9:48a
TUTORDOS DOC 8786 12-08-89 10:22a
HARDSTRT BAT 46 7-31-89 8:49a
INSTALL BAT 2704 11-09-89 1:24p
PRINTDOC BAT 179 11-14-89 9:48a
GO BAT 24 10-03-90 1:40a
GO TXT 962 10-04-90 3:34a
FILE2384 TXT 2443 10-03-90 1:05p
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