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SH-Quote 1.0 by S. Hufnagel - 01/09/94 - This program is free.
ABOUT SH-QUOTE - This program is a quote database program for Windows 3.1
that contains over 400 quotes. These quotes can very easily be searched
by keyword, author, or quote number. Quotes can be pasted to the
Clipboard so you can paste them into your Windows word processor. You
can even paste quotes into the program from the Clipboard.
Quotes can be easily added and easily deleted. Quotes can even be easily
modified, if you feel so inclined.
INSTALLATION - Run the SETUP.EXE program. This will create a directory named
SHQUOTE which will contain 3 files:
SHQUOTE.WRI (what you're reading now)
SHQUOTE.EXE (the executable program)
SHQUOTE.MDB (the quote database)
In addition, the setup program will copy 4 files to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory. This is necessary so you can use the database.
MSAES110.DLL
MSAJT110.DLL
VBDB300.DLL
VBRUN300.DLL
I'm telling you this because I hate programs that just dump files all over
my machine without telling me.
The installation program should create a directory and place an icon
in a new group in your Program Manager.
INSTRUCTIONS - I think the program is self-explanatory and most people could
figure it out just by playing around with it. I understand that some people
are better at this than others, but give it a try. Poke around. You can't
break anything. At worst, if you deleted something from the database,
then just reinstall the program.
There are a few things that might need a quick explanation:
COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS - There are 3 command line parameters:
/M - If you use this and place SH-Quote in your STARTUP
group in Program Manager, SH-Quote will pick a quote at random from
its database and make this quote the line of text displayed by the Windows
Marquee screen saver. Check with your Windows documentation if you don't
know what I'm talking about. It won't display any sort of message when it
does this and the program terminates as soon as its done.
/D - If you use this and place SH-Quote in your STARTUP
group in Program Manager, SH-Quote will pick a quote at random from
its database and display this quote in a message box when Windows starts
up. The program terminates after displaying this message.
/? - Displays the explanation of the above 2 command line parameters.
DISCLAIMER - I wrote this program for myself and thought it would be nice to
share it with others. Some of the quotes here are odd, some are stupid,
a few are annoying, some are wise. Maybe you'll like all of them. Maybe
not. If you don't like any you are free to delete them from your copy.
This program should be well-behaved when running on your system.
I wrote this using Visual Basic 3.0 and the database used here is the
Microsoft Access 1.1 format. It works for me. I hope it works for you,
but we must make a deal:
The deal here is that I promise I wrote a program that I feel safe running
on my machine. You must promise that if something does screw up, I'm
liable for nothing. If you can't promise me this, then DO NOT USE THIS
PROGRAM!
OTHER STUFF - Many of them have `Unknown' listed as author. If you know who
said a particular quote, you can fix it in your copy and let me know.
If you have any questions, comments or quotes you think I might like,
you can send them to me via Compuserve. My user ID is 72632,2107.
This software is free and I can't promise any support, but I'll do what I can.
I'm not on Compuserve much, so if you do send me mail, I might not get it
for awhile.
A word of thanks goes out to the people who said the words I put into this
program.