Acorn User 3/AUCD3.iso/airport/support/qmenu/!QMenu/!Help

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QMenu 0.01 by Matthew Bloch, August 1996
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This program is written for users of Newsbase and Director to do
something with that seemingly useless 'Show Queues...' option on the
Newsbase main menu; it actually makes it show the queued mail and
news.  To install, copy !QMenu somewhere where it will be Filer_Booted
(i.e. Newsbase.AutoBoot) so that Newsbase can find it.  Then edit the
!Newsbase.Support.showqueue file, and change whatever is there to:

 If "<QMenu$Dir>"<>"" then WimpTask <QMenu$Dir>.!Run

This should then work, providing Director is loaded as well (you'll get
an error if it isn't).  If you're not using !POP 0.993 and
!FreeNews 1.01, you'll need to edit the !Run file to change
where the program looks for queued mail and news articles.  Director is
needed to bring the menu up; for those in the dark, Director is a
spankingly good desktop utility which nobody should be without.  I like
it, anyway.  You can get it from:

  ftp://mic2.hensa.ac.uk/micros/arch/riscos/c/c141/

or contact Nick Craig-Wood, the author: [e-mail] .

Hope that's some help; BASIC programmers can hack away to their heart's
content to change what the menus look like.  It really is a shockingly
simple program, very easy to alter etc.

This program is FREEWARE which means you may copy to whomsoever you
want, providing you do not charge for the program itself.  The copyright
remains mine at all times.

Apologies for the technical content of this help file, but Newsbase
never was the easiest program to set up anyway :-)  If you need to
contact me, for questions, bug reports or spoon-feeding,

        email me on: [e-mail]
           homepage: http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/

Have fun,

Matthew