XMENU (tm) Menu Manager Version 3.22 Copyright 1988-1993 Gary W. Wood All Rights Reserved. XMENU /h for usage You are free to use, copy and distribute XLIST for personal use and shareware distribution IN ITS ORIGINAL, UNMODIFIED FORM PROVIDED NO FEE BEYOND REASONABLE MEDIA AND/OR SHIPPING CHARGES IS LEVIED. Gary W. Wood disclaims all warranties as to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchant- ability, fitness for a particular purpose, functionality or data integrity or protection. This program may not be used in a business, corporation, organization, government or agency environment without a negotiated site license. See documentation for further disclaimers and information. If you find XMENU fast, easy, and convenient to use, a registration of $25 would be appreciated. If you send $25 or more you will receive, when available, the next version of XMENU. Please state the version of the software that you currently have. This program may not be used in a business, corporation, organization, government or agency environment without a negotiated site license. Send check or money order to: Gary W. Wood 5401 Lakeview Road North Little Rock, AR 72116 ******************************************************************************* WELCOME! This is the PC-DOS release of XMENU. This will be the most powerful version of XMENU ever released. It has new features as outlined below. INVENTORY of ZIP file. README.322 This file. XMENU.EXE Main program (DOS Version) XMENU.DOC Documentation DOS.HLP Sample text help text MAINMENU.MNU Sample initial menu DOS.MNU Sample menu XCRYPT.EXE Encryption / De-encryption Utility for Menus XSETUP.EXE Create User Application Menu XSETUP.INF XSETUP configuration file ENVIRONMENT PARAMETERS: For best performance of XMENU, set the following environment parameters before using XMENU. This is where the program will page memory used by XMENU to this directory. SET TMP=D:\ <-- Set to a virtual disk or temp. directory. SET LIST=[browse utility] <-- Enter name of favorite browse utility such as, Van Buerg's List program. SET XMENU=[location of XMENU] <-- Optional location of XMENU in order to search for control menus. If not specified XMENU will use the PATH environment parameter. NEW FEATURES: Version 3.00 --- Changed screen design layout. Added Mouse support. Changed environment parameter names. Compiled with Microsoft "C" 6.00A. XSETUP.EXE utility to create user application menu. Changed XMENU.CNF file to XMENU.INI (NOTE: XMENU.INI is created at the first execution of XMENU.EXE). Added user-defined headings set at installation into XMENU.INI. Version 3.00A --- Change back to originating DOS drive and directory after executing DOS command. Search for .MNU & .INI using the SET XMENU= environment parameter when present. Bug associated with "C" optimization caused last menu item to be from next page corrected. Version 3.10 --- Enhancement to write DOS commands to a DOS batch file when the first command is the "ECHO [ON|OFF]" or "@ECHO [ON|OFF]" batch command. This will allow you to utilize batch commands within option command strings. Enhancement to add a maintenance & access password. If the maintenance password is forgotten you must use the XCRYPT.EXE program to de-encrypt the menu and manually remove the password and re-encrypt the menu. Enhancement to add a function key (i.e. F3) to shell to DOS. Enhancement to put a function key help line on the last row on the display. Disable blinking color attributes within XMENU, thereby allowing use of high intensity colors. Search for .MNU & .INI & help files & log files will look at the XMENU= environment parameter first before searching the PATH= environment parameter. Corrected consistency of using XMENU= environment parameter when present instead of PATH= environment parameter. Support of the COUNTRY= command in PC-DOS CONFIG.SYS to select the format for date & time displayed. Screen blanking after a number of seconds set at the command prompt with the /B[nnnn] parameter. Version 3.11 --- August 28, 1991 Will use EMS expanded memory when available to shrink XMENU to use on 7K of memory. Version 3.20 --- January 27, 1992 Registration prompt at startup of program. (Unregistered Version Only) Link program without using /EXEPACK to keep from hanging running under MS DOS 5.0 when loaded in low memory locations. Version 3.21 --- March 24, 1992 Problem with loading initial menu when the PROMPT= environment parameter is present. Version 3.22 --- February 8, 1993 Allow the menu names to be full drive/directory filenames. New parameters allow Xmenu to only use 10K of memory using EMS or Extended memory or disk. Added feature to handle unsafe interrupts when shrinking memory usage. If you get the "Unsafe interrupt..." message when executing commands load the "TSRINT.EXE" TSR program prior to executing XMenu.