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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION
SECTION 2 WHAT IS SHAREWARE?
SECTION 3 INSTALLATION
SECTION 4 DOS OPERATION & FUNCTIONS
SECTION 5 WINDOWS OPERATION & FUNCTIONS
SECTION 6 THANK YOUS
INTRODUCTION
Hello, Thank You for your purchase of Phoenix Publishing's VERSION 5.0
CD-ROM, our latest collection of Public Domain & Shareware programs.
Before you begin, let us take a second to inform you that we have made
several major enhancements to our operating program. For those of you who
have purchased our previous versions, we are pleased to offer you VERSION
5.0. We trust you will be as thrilled with using VERSION 5.0 as we are in
presenting it with all its features & latest software to you.
Our first change is that we now require an install to be done prior to
its actual use. This installation serves two purposes. First, a normal DOS
based installation allows this CD-ROM to be accessed directly from a DOS
prompt. Second, a few files will be installed which will allow VERSION 5.0
to be run under your Program Manager setup under WINDOWS. That is correct,
now PHOENIX PUBLISHING offers DUAL operating options in one, painless
installation step. Third, for those of you who are using Windows in your
computer, our Windows interface has two extra special features. A key word
search through your current index file. Our second enhancement allows you
to view files contained within a .zip file & unzip only those files. These
extras features are explained in more detail in our Windows Section below.
WHAT IS SHAREWARE?
Shareware constitutes a low cost alternative to many IBM programs.
Its greatest advantage is that you get to try a program before you buy it.
There are no hassles in obtaining a RMA from a store manager or having to
present your sales slip. Shareware is a method of product distribution &
its overall quality & functionality is improving rapidly.
This is only happening since many users support Shareware products
by sending in their registration fees when they find a software item which
suits their needs, applications or desires. In reality, if you use any
shareware product past its trial period without registering it, you are
violating Shareware laws & in effect, stealing it from an author.
You should know that many Shareware programs found on your PHOENIX
CD-ROM come from many hundreds of skilled Shareware authors not only from
America, yet from dozens of other countries worldwide.
Your support is important & is greatly appreciated by each individual
author. With it, Shareware authors are encouraged to design & distribute
new products. Without it, a great deal of high quality, low cost software
will cease to be readily available as a commercial software alternative.
We hope many of these Shareware products on our CD-ROM become a part
of your system & we urge you to evaluate other Shareware products when you
decide to add additional software to your system.
Please, register all Shareware that you use. It is only right.
Following is a brief observation & commentary about new trends in
Shareware Distribution & how it relates to CD-ROM publishing. It is not
intended to offend anybody. We publically apologize if it does. We are
only attempting to inform Endusers about current actions & how an Enduser
may be affected by those actions.
We would like to make mention of current events as far as this whole
concept of Shareware Distribution & how it relates to CD-ROM. In recent
months some Shareware Authors have been becoming very restrictive as far
as having their individual programs grouped as part of a CD-ROM. PHOENIX
would like you to know that we (CD-ROM Publishers) are providing a service
to both people. Both people? YES, Authors, by helping to get YOUR programs
into more households for evaluation. Hopefully that this will increase
an Author's number of registered users. We also help Individual people by
offering THOUSANDS of programs on a trial basis. We expose them to Fresh,
New Authors, New Programs, Updated Software & much more for only a small
fraction of a cost per CD-ROM as opposed to many Authors distributing them
via any other media.
We here at PHOENIX have spent many hours trying to make sure we did
not go against an Author's distribution plan. We believe we have conformed
to as many directives as possible that we knew about when this CD-ROM was
released into production. If you are a Shareware Author & object to having
your work included on this CD-ROM, please notify us so that we can remove
it from our library & discontinue it from future releases.
* A quick note about our file dates & File Authenticity Error:
Most of these files are late 1993 & early 1994 dates. We have tried
to remove comment notes from files obtained from BBS systems. We also
tried to make an effort to insure that all files are contained within
each package. That is why many of our dates are 4-7-94. We are trying
to present a quality CD-ROM product. This is also why you may see an
error stating File Authenticity Failed. This is not a serious error,
it usually happens when we have stripped a comment from a file. We
did nothing to alter files in any form.
INSTALLATION
Let's walk through installing VERSION 5.0 right now. This way you can
have a pretty good idea of what to expect & how this CD-ROM will function.
We will assume that right now you are doing your installation from DOS. In
a few seconds, we will give you instructions how to include PHOENIX under
your Program Manager under Windows 3.X. First of all, switch to your CDROM
drive letter. For our example here, we will pretend it is letter P. From
your P prompt, just type install & press enter, like so: INSTALL [ENTER].
Install will now ask you what drive you want put your operating files on.
For this example, we will say it is drive C. All you need to do is type C.
In a few seconds, install will make add new sub-directory on your C drive
called WINROM & five files will be copied in there. They are:
1. PHOENIX.EXE < Use this command from your DOS prompt.
2. VBRUN300.DLL < Required for operation under Windows 3.X.
3. VZIP.EXE < An extra feature for Windows users.
4. WINROM.CFG < Your Windows configuration file.
5. WINROM.EXE < A command line for Windows Program Manager.
For those of you who wish to add PHOENIX VERSION 5.0 to your Windows
Program Manager here is all you have to do:
1. <ALT> F
2. Choose NEW
3. Select Program Item & press [ENTER]
Set as follows:
Description: WINROM
Command Line: WINROM.EXE
Working Directory: C:\WINROM <Remember, C is where Install went>
4. Press [ENTER] & you will add a CD-ROM inside of a jewel case
to your desktop set of icons.
You have now completed installation of our CD-ROM into your computer.
We will now walk through our basic commands & functions so you can begin
enjoying our latest (& best) addition to your CD-ROM library. This section
will explain how this CD-ROM will operate from your DOS prompt. Next, we
are going to explain how this CD will function as a Windows application.
There are differences between both of these styles, so you may want to try
both of them to find out which you prefer or is more suited to your needs.
DOS OPERATION GUIDELINES
At your DOS prompt, type CD\WINROM & press [ENTER]. This will change
to our working WINROM directory. You should see C:\WINROM> All you have to
do here is just type PHOENIX [ENTER]. This will bring up our new main menu
which includes several new topic areas not previously released by PHOENIX.
You will see our 42 main topic selections. Here, only three functions are
available for your use. They are as follows [D]isplay, [S]upport & [Q]uit.
MAIN MENU SELECTIONS
[D]isplay will ask you to enter a number of a directory that you are
interested in looking at. For example, if you want to see what files can
be found in ANIMATION, press D, then 1.
[S]upport brings up a small screen which indicates where you can get
technical support for PHOENIX.EXE & WINROM.EXE. There is also a mailing
address for authors to send their new material for being submitted in our
future CD-ROM versions. We do accept files on either 3.5 or 5.25 floppys &
both high & low density formats.
[Q]uit will allow you to escape from PHOENIX.EXE to DOS.
DISPLAY MENU SELECTIONS
We will spend a few minutes to fully explain how our [D]isplay option
works. After you have entered D & then 1, you will see a listing of files
available to you in Animation. Your choice of options at this point are:
[R]etrieve, [C]opy, [F]orward, [B]ackward & [Q]uit.
[R]etrieve is used to unzip a file from our CD-ROM onto your system.
If you press [R], you will be asked for a number to match which file you
want to unzip from our CD-ROM. [R]etrieve will offer you a suggested sub-
directory as a destination. Y or N is all you need to select. If you pick
N, you will then be given an option to unzip your file into any drive &
sub-directory you desire. If you enter a subdirectory which does not exist
on your target drive, [R]etrieve will make it for you.
* In order for [R]etrieve to properly function, you must be sure that
you have a current copy of PKUNZIP.EXE in your path. If you do not have a
copy, we have provided it in our PKWARE sub-directory. Pkunzip & its other
files are Shareware programs & require proper registration to Pkware, Inc.
[C]opy will copy a file from our CD-ROM onto your hard drive (In its
zipped form). If you choose [C], you will be asked for a file number to
copy. After entering your file number, you will be asked for a destination
path (Drive letter & sub-directory, For example: C:\SAMPLE). In case you
enter a target path which does not exist on your target drive, [C]opy will
make it automatically for you.
[F]orward displays another successive screen (If available) of file
names & descriptions. You will see a page # of # counter in our upper
right hand corner of this display.
[B]ackward displays a previous screen (If available) of file names &
descriptions. You will see a page # of # counter in our upper right hand
corner of this display.
[Q]uit will return you from this screen to our Main Topic Menu.
WINDOWS OPERATION GUIDELINES
This section offers guidelines for operation under Windows 3.X. Since
your first-time installation has also installed a Windows-based interface,
we are assuming that you already are familiar with using Windows. While we
offer a Windows interface, we do not require it for accessing VERSION 5.0.
We repeated our Windows installation process if you missed it earlier.
For those of you who wish to add PHOENIX VERSION 5.0 to your Windows
Program Manager here is all you have to do:
1. <ALT> F
2. Choose NEW
3. Select Program Item & press [ENTER]
Set as follows:
Description: WINROM
Command Line: WINROM.EXE
Working Directory: C:\WINROM <Remember, C is where Install went>
4. Press [ENTER] & you will add a CD-ROM inside of a jewel case
to your desktop set of icons.
First of all, start up your Windows program & go to Program Manager.
Double click on our WINROM icon. It is that really sharp-looking CD-ROM
inside of a jewel case!
WINDOWS MAIN MENU SELECTIONS
On this screen you will see four choice buttons. They are: Run, Help,
Support, & Exit.
Double clicking on Run will lead you into our files on VERSION 5.0.
Help brings up a single screen of help tips, all are covered here.
Support brings up a small screen which indicates where you can get
technical support for PHOENIX.EXE & WINROM.EXE. There is also a mailing
address for authors to send their new material for being submitted in our
future CD-ROM versions. We do accept files on either 3.5 or 5.25 floppys &
both high & low density formats.
Exit runs you to Program Manager under Windows.
WINDOWS RUN MENU SELECTIONS
Double-click on RUN button & three choices appear, Log, Help, & Quit.
Log brings up our 42 topic areas to choose from. Remember to use your
mouse or trackball arrows to view our entire list. To select a given topic
area, move your cursor over it & highlight it by clicking on your choice.
A green bar will appear & your Log Menu Selections will now be available.
Help brings up a single screen of help tips, all are covered here.
Quit returns you to our Main Menu Selections.
LOG MENU SELECTIONS
When you click our Log button, six options appear. They are Retrieve,
View, Copy, Search, Help, & Quit.
To avoid repeating ourselves & making this file longer & more boring
than it already is, Retrieve, Copy, Help, & Quit will not be explained in
this section. You can learn about them under DOS DISPLAY MENU SELECTION.
An important note for Windows users: Be sure that xcopy.exe is in
your DOS sub directory path. Xcopy is needed for Copy function to work.
Two features under our Windows interface & not DOS are View & Search.
View allows you to look at individual files contained within a .zip.
You may decide to Retrieve an individual file or more from within a zipped
file by highlighting them & using Retrieve as described above.
Search is a key word search feature which will scan through a current
displayed listing for any word you decide to search for. This will make a
short listing of files & descriptions with your match if any are found.
THANK YOUS
We here at PHOENIX PUBLISHING wish to extend a personal THANK YOU to
each of these folks listed below for their time & effort to contribute to
help make VERSION 5.0 superior to any other Shareware CD-ROM sold today:
Each & every Shareware author & writer who generously contributed
their program to us to help make VERSION 5.0 a rousing success.
Jeffrey Anderson for his time & effort in assembling both our Windows
& DOS interfaces & support programs.
Mike at Universal Computers for his help in making our WINROM icon.