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MICROFORUM MFG. INC.
CD VOLUME I
This CD is a collection of many programs. In order to be able to fit
more programs on the disc, each program is compressed into a ZIP file.
Therefore each zip file really contains many files.
In order to run a program in your computer, you must first UNZIP it,
we have provided a small utility program to help you do this. Remember you
can only unzip, or run programs that have a .ZIP extension. If you see
other files with other extensions such as .GIF, they are usually picture
files that you can only bring up with programs that support that particular
extension. The description file included in each CD, gives you a good idea
of what the file is.
TO READ the description for each program on this CD, go to the DOS prompt
and type READ (press return).
Once you read the description of the programs and you have decided which
ones to try, write down their names and go out from the description file,
(by pressing ESCAPE) to the DOS prompt, and type INSTALL (press return).
Once you have typed install, the computer will ask under which letter is
your CD configured under.
Answer by simply entering the letter of your CD drive, (and press return)
You will then see a menu. Select option # 2 to go to the main menu.
From the main menu, select option # 1 to install a program.
The computer will then ask you for the program name, answer by simply
entering the name of the file that you want to install onto your hard
drive. Example: TEST.ZIP (remember to enter the name of the file with
the *.ZIP extension)
At this point the program will ask you for the name of directory where
you want to copy the program under. EXAMPLE: C:\TEST
Once you have entered the name of the directory (remember the hard drive
letter has to proceed the name of the directory) the program will
automatically unzip the program into that directory and show you will
files where uncompressed and automatically display all the files with
extension .EXE, .COM, or .BAT.
(If only the name of the directory appears, that means that the particular
program that you have just installed has not executable files, therefore
you should read the documentation files)
You will then have the option to go out to the DOS prompt and try to run
the program by typing the name of one of the files that end with one of
these three extensions : .EXE, .COM, or .BAT. Usually the file to run is
the one that has a similar name of the program, or they usually have a file
name GO.BAT or START.BAT, etc.
Most programs also have text files with documentation for the software.
Most documentation files end with the .TXT or .DOC extension.
To access those files simply call the DOS edit program with the name of the
file, or you can use the browse program found on this disc.
Example:
Edit DOC.TXT (will allow you to read the doc.txt file)
or by copying BROSE.COM from the CD into the program directory, and by
typing BROWSE DOC.TXT.
To go back to the DOS prompt press ESCAPE.