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THE OTHER PROGRAMS ON THIS DISK
ORDER.EXE
You can make a special file called ORDER.FRM for use with
ORDER.EXE which will allow your readers to print out your own
custom order form. Registered users of Writer's Dream may
distribute ORDER.EXE with their books.
To use it, make an ordinary ASCII file called ORDER.FRM.
The first five lines in the file will be printed whenever a
reader types ORDER at the DOS prompt. Then the reader's name,
address, phone number and required disk size will be printed.
Then the remaining lines of text within ORDER.FRM will be
printed. You should be careful to include no more lines than
will fit on a single sheet of 8.5" by 11" paper.
For best results with the widest variety of printers, use
a 10 character left margin and 10 character right margin (60
characters per line).
To understand this program better, try the example which
is Another Company's ORDER.FRM. Type ORDER at your DOS
prompt to see it work. Then examine our ORDER.FRM with your
word processor. Copy it and change it to suit your tastes.
You can now list ORDER.EXE in the WRITER'S DREAM menu
with the BUILD program and your users can print an order form
with the greatest of ease.
SPACE.EXE
Many people like the appearance of a text file in which the
lines of text are about 60 characters wide and centered on
the screen, such as this file you are now reading. Lines of
60 characters width or less are less tiring on the eyes, too.
SPACE.EXE helps you add that look to your own documents.
Start by creating a file in which your left margin is set to
1 and the right margin is 60 columns. When the file is done,
run SPACE.EXE. It will ask you to type the name of your
file. It will create a duplicate of that file, but with a
left margin. You will have to type a name for the duplicate
file. For instance, if your original file is called
CHAPTER.1, you can call the new one CH.1. Then you will be
asked to type a number of spaces to add to the left edge of
the lines of text. Type 10. Voila, CH.1 becomes a
professional looking file!
If you use Word Perfect or Microsoft Word, when your
files are converted to ASCII, left justification (margin) is
stripped off. SPACE.EXE will restore your left margin.
REPAIR.EXE
REPAIR.EXE makes copies of your text files, but in the
process attempts to repair non-ASCII text. It does not work
with the default mode files created by all word processing
programs, but works with many. Fortunately, almost all word
processing programs have their own way to create ordinary
ASCII text. If your word processor does not do a good job of
it, try using REPAIR.EXE. Type REPAIR at your DOS prompt.
The program is super-easy-to-use.
All of these programs are for royalty-free use by registered
users of Writer's Dream.
VGAORTXT.EXE
I have had two cases where authors wanted to run
MSHOW.EXE a multimedia presentation program from MEDIA
MAGIC, which would run in VGA on their customers' computers
which were equipped to handle VGA, but would run a text
presentation with Writer's Dream on the other computers. For
those two cases, and the others which are sure to come along
(perhaps yours?), I have written a small program called
VGAORTXT.EXE which determines whether an end user's computer
has VGA capability. If it does, VGAORTXT will automatically
run MSHOW.EXE with the first filename following VGAORTXT on
the command line or within a batch file. If the end user's
computer does not have VGA, then VGAORTXT runs DREAM.EXE with
the second filename following VGAORTXT. Here's an example of
a BEGIN.BAT:
VGAORTXT MAINSHOW BOOK.CFG
When the end user types BEGIN, the computer starts MSHOW.EXE
and displays MAINSHOW if the computer is VGA-equipped, or it
runs DREAM.EXE with the standard BOOK.CFG if not.
CUSTOM PROGRAMS
Sometimes it is more cost-effective to have a custom
program made than to struggle with incorrect software. I do
custom programming! If you need something special, please
contact me for an estimate. Prices from $200. - Jeff -
503-482-3611, or via CompuServe 71022,175.
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