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- CIA Hypertext is a production of BSA.
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- CIA Hypertext
- Copyright (c) 1993 by BSA
- All Rights Reserved
-
- CIA is a hypertext version of the 1993 World Fact Book by the
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.
- For full information, please consult the "About" section of the
- hypertext book.
-
- CIA Hypertext is copyright in all countries. You may use this program
- for up to 30 days without obligation. If you continue to use CIA
- Hypertext after 30 days, you must register your copy with BSA. Details
- of how to order can be found in the ORDER.DOC file contained in the
- CIA Hypertext distribution archives or diskettes, and in the program
- itself from the main menu. Corporations or government agencies using
- CIA Hypertext must register the program. Special site license fees are
- available.
-
- Those registering CIA Hypertext will receive early notice and a
- discount on CIA94 Hypertext as soon as it is available.
-
- Hypertext "books" are meant to be easy and self-explanatory. This
- document will thus be short. If you have questions, this is a fault of
- the hypertext, not of this document. PLEASE send any suggestions you
- have to Bangkok Security Associates PO Box 5-121 Bangkok, Thailand
- 10500 Fax (66-2) 253-6868 War on Virus BBS (66-2) 437-2085 (V.32bis,
- 24 hours)
-
- You also can contact BSA via Compuserve, at 76420,3053.
-
- CIA Hypertext - Description
- =============
- CIA Hypertext is an easy-to-use version of The World Fact
- Book, by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It is a
- standard for US and foreign governments seeking data on any
- country or area in the world. The Fact Book is an up-to-date
- source of economic, geographical and political data on more than
- 260 countries and areas of the world.
-
- CIA Hypertext contains the full text of The World Fact Book,
- in easy-to-access form. Data can be viewed, saved, printed or
- pasted into other applications as needed. No special computer
- knowledge is required, and you can begin to use CIA Hypertext
- immediately after installation.
-
- CIA Hypertext Evaluation is distributed on four disks, or in four
- archive files. You MUST have all four files before using it.
- After you complete the installation, the hypertext book requires
- two disk files, which are created during the process:
- CIA.EXE -- the hypertext "front end" program
- CIA.HTX -- the actual hypertext
-
- CIA Hypertext requires a minimum of 1.8MB of disk space. It
- is approximately 300KB smaller than the ASCII version of the
- Factbook. It contains not only the full text of The World Fact
- Book, but several additional features, including tables and
- comparisons. These features are exclusive to CIA Hypertext. No
- other version of the World Fact Book has these comparison tables.
-
- CIA Hypertext also requires approximately 100K of RAM in
- standalone mode. The hypertext program can also be loaded as a
- TSR using as little as 0 (zero) bytes of conventional RAM. (See below).
-
- Creating and Starting CIA
- =========================
- You must begin with the four hypertext parts. These are called
- CIA.001
- CIA.002
- CIA.003
- CIA.004
- The distribution version of CIA Hypertext includes a batch
- program called INSTALL.BAT. Place the four files above in a
- sub-directory of your hard disk, and type the command:
-
- INSTALL [ENTER]
-
- Assuming no corruption or other errors, INSTALL will make a single
- hypertext file called CIA.HTX. (For technical people, this file is
- made by simple concatenation of the four CIA Hypertext file parts,
- using the DOS command COPY /B.) Now you are ready to look at the
- Factbook. Simply type
-
- CIA [ENTER]
-
- This should bring the hypertext to your screen with a welcome message
- and some initial choices. To move to the section highlighted, simply
- press Enter. Move around the screen with the Tab or arrow
- keys. Menu items can be accessed with the Alt keys.
-
- Press F1 at any time for help. A full list of program features,
- and available keys and command are available in the Help Sections.
-
- Using CIA Hypertext as a TSR.
- ============================
- You can have the full hypertext manual available at a keystroke by
- loading CIA Hypertext in TSR mode. If you have above-1K memory,
- this will take 1K or less of standard RAM, perhaps much, much less.
-
- ┌───────────────────────────┐
- │ The hot key for CIA is │
- ▓ Ctrl-. ▓
- │ (Ctrl and the period) │
- └───────────────────────────┘
-
- From the DOS prompt, the straight command to load the World
- Factbook as a TSR is:
-
- CIA -tsr [ENTER]
-
- This will use more memory than you want to use. There are
- several tested possibilities to use instead of this.
-
- 1. If you have "LIM-standard" memory (most of us do these
- days) the following vanilla command may be what you want:
- CIA -lim [ENTER]
-
- 2. If you have DOS 5.0, you can use LOADHIGH as a space-saver.
- LH CIA -tsr [ENTER]
-
- NOTE: This may produce the message
- "Made resident in lower memory"
- from the Hypertext program. This is often a LIE.
- On test machines, this method used NO lower memory in most cases.
-
- 3. If you are using QEMM (tested) or other memory managers,
- you should use their version of the LOADHI(GH) commands.
- For example:
- c:\qemm\LOADHI CIA -tsr [ENTER]
- worked on our test machines.
-
-
-