-------------*------------- Quarto Software Study Guide -------------*------------- William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" -------------*------------- ---------------------- Purpose of the program ---------------------- This all-graphic (GUI) program is an electronic guide to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The guide includes the complete text of the play, extensive introductory and supplementary material, a thorough glossary, comments, variant readings, a quiz and over eighty illustrations. The program provides the capability to display the text of the play in several different fonts and formats, search for all occurrences of specified words, and append additional notes. Sections are included on the play, Elizabethan theaters, language, text, critical comments, possible sources, editors, dates, Shakespeare's times, a collection of famous Shakespearean quotes and an introduction to "The Tempest". ------------ Requirements ------------ IBM-compatible PC, 640K, an EGA or VGA monitor, MS-DOS or Windows, and approximately 1.6 megabytes of disk space. A mouse is optional. --------------------- Status of the Program --------------------- Freeware ------------------- Distribution Status ------------------- Freely distributed -- copying of the program is encouraged. ------ Author ------ Donald L. Stoneman, Quarto Software, P.O. Box 93, Bent Mountain, Va. 24059-0093 USA 105547.1450@compuserve.com ---------- To Install ---------- . Insert disk in drive A. . If you received this program on a distribution disk from Quarto Software (or a copy thereof), simply do the following: For MS-DOS... At the C\> prompt, type.. a: At the A\> prompt, type.. install For Windows... From the Program Manager, Choose File (Alt-F) Choose Run (R) then type.. a:install Either method will create a directory named "SG" on the hard drive (C:) and expand all files into that directory. . If you received this program as a PKZIP file (i.e. with a .ZIP extension on the file name), PKZIP 2.04 (or higher) will be required to unzip the file. It is recommended that the unzip be done into a directory named "SG". ------------------------------- To Run the Program under MS-DOS ------------------------------- At the C\> prompt, type.. cd\sg At the C\SG> prompt, type.. sg ------------------------------- To Add as an Icon under Windows ------------------------------- From the Program Manager, choose: File (Alt-F) New (N) Program Group (G) OK (Return) for the Description, type.. Study Guide for the Group File, type.. \sg\sg.grp OK (Return) -------------------------------- To Run the Program under Windows -------------------------------- Double click on the icon. ------------------------ To Uninstall the Program ------------------------ When you have finished using the program, you can remove it from your hard drive by doing the following... If you added the icon under Windows, first single click on the Shakespeare icon. Once the program description is highlighted, press the delete key and respond "YES" (Y) to the deletion message. After this is done, press the delete key again to delete the program group and once again respond "YES" (Y) to the deletion message. If you did not install under Windows or did not add the icon to the Program Manager, omit this step. To complete the uninstall, delete the directory "SG" and all its files from the hard drive. You can do this in one of two ways: For MS-DOS... At the C\> prompt, type.. cd\sg At the C\SG> prompt, type.. del *.* ** WARNING ** make certain you are in the "SG" directory. Respond "Y" to the warning message about deleting all the files in the directory, then... At the C\SG> prompt, type.. cd\ At the C\ prompt, type.. rd\sg For Windows... From the Program Manager, Double click on the "File Manager" filing cabinet icon. Single click on the "SG" directory on the left side of the display. ** WARNING ** make certain you have the "SG" directory name highlighted then choose: File (Alt-F) Delete (D) OK (Return) Yes to All (A) Yes to All (A)