HDM IV v2.7 by MicroFox Registration $ 50.00 UTIL FEB91 HDM HARD DISK MENU DOSSHELL FILES: hdm427.sdn Update This program is a DOS shell that hides the underlying operating system from the uninitiated user, yet does not get in the way of the expert user. The basic system consist of up to one thousand menu files with ten menu pages each, and each page has ten entries for a total of 100,000 entries to choose from. You can start an entry by pointing to it with the cursor or the mouse, then press the key or the left mouse button, or you can simply press the number key associated with that entry. Each entry can start a program, run a batch file, or execute any DOS command. An entry can also have multiple steps which can include any or all of the possibilities above plus special HDM functions and macros. You can change menu pages by pressing the through keys or the through keys to go directly to page "A" through "J" or use the and keys. Each page and each entry on each page has a user definable description. You can go to another Menu File by using the action function {MENU ###}. The Menu Files are numbered from zero to 999. The key displays a horizontal menu at the top of the screen. The choices from the menu include: Menu, Page, Security, Local, Global, or Exit. Help can be selected any time and presents you with another menu and screens that explain how to use the Hard Disk Menu System. MENU allows you to add, change, delete, move, or copy the menu entry descriptions and their associated menu action. PAGE lets you change the description of a Page Index entry, import pages, switch pages, or delete pages. SECURITY allows you to set up user logons and password protect menu entries. LOCAL lets you set up variables in the current menu file and GLOBAL lets you set up variables that affect all menu files. EXIT leaves HDM and returns you to the DOS prompt or opens a DOS window where you can run any DOS command, program, or batch file. Other commands in the Top Menu allow you to set up macros, menu titles, change colors and window borders, set mouse sensitivity, set communications parameters, set time for automatic blanking of the menu screen, and set up hands off timed execution of any menu entry any time of the day, week, or month. The user defined menu entries consist of two parts. The first one is a 48 character description that is displayed on the screen and can be anything you want. This is what you choose to start a menu entry from the main menu. The second part of this menu entry is the menu action. This tells HDM what to do when this menu entry is started. The menu action can contain anything that you would normally put in a DOS batch file, plus functions and macros that give you additional flexibility, ease of use, and capabilities beyond DOS and other menu systems. Help is always available. Press from anywhere in the Hard Disk Menu to get the help menu and help screens. Help topics are displayed at the left side of the screen and a description of each topic is displayed on the right side of the screen. _____________________________________________________________ (SDA format (c)Copyright 1990 The SDN Project - SDNet/Works!) _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________