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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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- This file contains information that updates, clarifies, or
- emphasizes information found in the User's Guide (GUIDE.TXT).
- Please see the User's Guide for complete details on using Magic
- Desk.
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- INSTALLING MAGIC DESK: Magic Desk is distributed in a compressed
- format and cannot be run directly as is. You must first install
- it on your hard drive. To install it:
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- 1. When you see the C> prompt (or a similar prompt that
- identifies your hard drive), insert the program disk in disk drive
- A (or B).
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- 2. Type A:INSTALL (or B:INSTALL) and press the ENTER key.
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- 3. Follow the instructions on the screen.
-
- (Magic Desk may also be installed from your hard drive if you have
- already copied the compressed files onto your hard drive.)
-
- STARTING MAGIC DESK: After installation, the command to start
- Magic Desk is MAGIC. This runs the MAGIC.BAT file that kicks
- things off. Do not start the program with the MDMAIN command.
- Running MDMAIN.EXE directly will appear to work fine until you try
- to launch a program from Magic Desk. At that point, the program
- will simply terminate and leave you at the DOS prompt.
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- USING MICROSOFT WINDOWS ICONS: To use a Windows icon in Magic
- Desk you must first read it into Painter, the icon editor built
- into Magic Desk. After reading the icon and making any desired
- changes to it, write it back to disk without the ICO extension.
- Magic Desk will create a new icon file with an ICN extension, then
- you can use it. NOTE: Magic Desk includes 30 sample icons that
- have a ICN extension. These are already in Magic Desk format and
- do not need to be imported through Painter. The registered
- version of Magic Desk includes a collection of 400 Windows icons,
- as well as a utility that will convert all the Windows icons in a
- specified directory to Magic Desk format in a single pass.
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- RUNNING BATCH FILES: If you are running a batch file (a file with
- a BAT extension) from Magic Desk, be sure you have set the Batch
- File button for that program to YES. If the Batch File button is
- set to NO, Magic Desk will not reappear after the batch file is
- finished.
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- REARRANGING ICON BUTTONS: You can change the arrangement of the
- icon buttons on the screen by dragging them around with the mouse
- or keyboard. See the User's Guide for details. After you've put
- the buttons fairly close to the position, you can press ALT+A to
- have Magic Desk line them up neatly in the new order.
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- RUNNING DOS 6.0 MEMMAKER: If you have commands in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file to automatically run Magic Desk when you turn on
- your system (as described in the User's Guide), you may need to
- temporarily remove the commands while running the MEMMAKER program
- included with DOS 6.0.
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- SEE UTILITY: This disk includes the SEE file viewing program. It
- is a very useful utility for viewing and printing text files (such
- as this README.TXT file). The SEE program was created by Pinnacle
- Software and is used by permission. For more information about
- Pinnacle Software, please see the text file AMAZE.TXT.
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