The Simple Series An (ASP) Approved Vendor
168 Plaistow Road
Plaistow, NH 03865
(603) 382-3344
We have provided this file for those of you who are new
to Shareware. We would suggest that you spend some time
reading about DOS commands and compression utilities.
The Simple Series is dedicated to providing the authors
we serve with the highest quality distribution services we
can. We are constantly looking for new programs to add to
our library any author wishing to submit their work to us may
do so at the address listed above.
The (ASP) Association of Shareware Professionals
We are proud to be an approved vendor of the (ASP). It
is our goal to be considered as a leader in quality and
service as a Shareware distributor. We believe strongly in
the Shareware system as we hope you do. We expect that those
of you who purchase our disks, and use them, will register with
the author. The (ASP) is working hard to set standards for
both authors and distributors. We are committed to enforcing
that these standards are met.
This document is only meant to give some basic guidance.
We suggest you read additional material to fully understand
DOS and how to work with your computer.
1.) DOS COMMANDS
A.) COPY - The copy command allows you to copy files
[from a location] [to a location]. A location simply being a
storage device, which would be a floppy disk or a hard disk.
Examples and explanations:
The DOS prompt is critical to this operation it will look like
this A:\> or C:\>.
A:\>COPY A:*.* B:
Will copy all files on drive A: to B:.
A:\>COPY A:read.me B:
Will copy the file read.me from A: to B:.
A:\>COPY A:*.dat B:
Will copy all files with the extension .dat to B:.
C:\>COPY C:\wp\*.doc C:\doc\
Will copy all .doc files stored in the subdirectory
\wp\ to the subdirectory \doc\.
B.) DIR - This command will allow you to list to the
screen the files located on a drive or disk.
Examples and explanations:
C:\>DIR
Will list the files on the root directory.
C:\>DIR/P
Will list the files to the screen but will pause when the
screen fills and you will be prompted to press a key to
continue.
A:\>DIR/W
Will list the files to the screen in a wide screen
format, slightly different than the others listed.
C.) TYPE - The TYPE command is used to view text
files on screen.
Examples and explanations:
C:\>TYPE A:read.me
This will list the file read.me to the screen to stop it
from scrolling hold the CTRL key and press the SCROLL
LOCK key press any key to continue viewing. If you have
an enhanced keyboard you can use the PAUSE key.
C:\>TYPE A:read.me|more
This will do the same as above, the more option causes
the file to scroll one page at a time.
D.) PRINT - Allows you to print files to your printer.
Examples and explanations:
C:\>PRINT A:\temp\read.me
Will print the file read.me which is located in the
subdirectory \temp\.
The print command will prompt you for NAME OF LIST
DEVICE [PRN]: if your print is connected to LPT1 or the
standard parallel port just hit ENTER. If this does not
work we would suggest that you contact your hardware
dealer to find out which port your printer is connected
to. The normal connection for the printer is to LPT1 and
you won't have a problem.
F.) DISKCOPY - Allows you to copy an entire disk.
Examples and explanations:
C:\>DISKCOPY A: A:
This will copy a master disk inserted in A: to A:.
The system will prompt you when to insert the master and
when to insert the blank.
A:\>DISKCOPY A: B:
This will copy a master disk in A: to B:.
ARCHIVED FILES
or
COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING FILES
Archiving is used very heavily in the Shareware industry
and the reason for this is simple, saving precious disk
space. When you do a directory listing of your disk and you
see file extensions like .ARC .LZH .PAK .ZIP you know that
file is in an archived format. The Simple Series has tried
to make our library as uniform as possible. We have selected
PKZIP as our primary compression utility. On each disk we
supply that is Zipped you should have PKUNZIP. PKUNZIP
allows you to extract the file.
Examples and explanations:
A:\>PKUNZIP
This by itself won't do anything other than to bring up
a help screen for using PKUNZIP. You may want to refer to
this for further help.
A:\>PKUNZIP *.zip B:
This will extract all .zip files on drive A: to B:
A:\>PKUNZIP test c:\temp\
This will extract all files from test.zip to the
subdirectory \temp\.
The easiest method for doing this is to copy the disk
you have received to a subdirectory on your hard drive and
then issue the command PKUNZIP *.zip.
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