+==============================================================+ | INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR | +==============================================================+ +===================+ | S H A R E W A R E | +===================+ THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR IS SHAREWARE, NOT FREEWARE! The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor is not free. You are granted a limited license of 7 days of free use so that you can evaluate the program fully. If you continue to make use of the program beyond the 7 days, you are required to purchase the program using one of the 3 options outlined in SPELL.DOC. If after the 7 days you decide not to purchase the program, you must remove all of its files from your system, while you may continue to distribute the original package to friends, BBSes, etcetera. THE SPELLBOUND! SOFTWARE SUPER DUPER, NEW AND IMPROVED, ALL PURPOSE SHAREWARE CURSE OR -- "WHO IS WELDON?" To discourage use of the program beyond the 7 day evaluation period, we been sadly (sigh), forced to employ the timeworn device of "cursing" dishonest users of our product. For further information, and for an answer to the burning question: "Who is this Weldon guy, and what is his name doing in the documentation?" see SPELL.DOC! FULLY FUNCTIONAL, NOT DISABLED! This shareware or evaluation copy of The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor has not been disabled in any way. All of the functions available in the Registered version are fully functional in this version. The only difference is the presence of the shareware screens in the shareware version to remind you of your obligation to register and not to use the program beyond the 7 day evaluation period without registering. INVOICE AND MAILER AUTOMATICALLY TOTALED AND PRINTED To make the task of purchase completely painless, you will be presented with a data entry screen as you exit the program into which you may type all of the ordering information. From this information, an invoice will be totaled and printed (or sent to a file for further editing if you prefer). In addition, a pre-addressed mailer containing your return address and the address of SPELLBOUND! Software will be printed. Just answer all of the questions from your keyboard, choose what printer port or file to which it should be sent, assemble the simple mailer, insert your check with the invoice, staple, stamp, and mail! MasterCard and Visa are accepted. IMMEDIATE CONVERSION TO REGISTERED VERSION BY PHONE! If you have a MasterCard or Visa, you may have your copy converted to the registered version immediately if you wish simply by calling SPELLBOUND! Software at (517) 828-6520 with the program running on your computer. We will give to you a special code which when entered into the program will make the conversion. Remote registration removes all of the shareware screens as well as the termination screens. The cost is a minimum $15.00 registration fee for this service. If you desire the additional word lists or the latest version the charge is slightly higher. See SPELL.DOC for further information on registration. +===========================+ | I N S T A L L A T I O N | +===========================+ PROBLEMS If you have any problems while installing the program, call SPELLBOUND! Software Customer Support at: (517) 828-6520. We will be happy to help you to evaluate our program! REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLATION The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor requires 384k free memory, DOS 3.00 or above, CGA, EGA, or VGA monitor (or Hercules (R) card with a CGA simulation program), two floppy disk drives OR one of the following single drive systems: Hard drive, 720k floppy, 1.2meg floppy, 1.44meg floppy. PRINTING THE DOCUMENTATION To print out the documention for "The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor", install the program according to the directions given in this documentation. Once you have started the program, press F1 to bring up context-sensitive help. Press F1 once again to bring up the documentation in the file viewer. Press F9 to print the file being displayed, in this case, SPELL.DOC. Enter your parallel printer port number when prompted. Make sure you have about 40 sheets of paper. To print this file now, enter the following command from the DOS prompt: COPY README.1ST PRN PRINTING WITH THE BOTHSIDES TEXT FORMATTER Even better, if you have SPELLBOUND! Software's "BothSides Text Formatter", Just type: BOTH SPELL.DOC FF. When the processing is finished, type: COPY SPELL.ONE PRN and when side one is finished, turn the paper over, reinsert it into the printer and type: COPY SPELL.TWO PRN. The documentation will print to both sides of the paper. Instead of 40 sheets of paper, you will only need 20! READING THE DOCUMENTATION FROM WITHIN THE SPELLING TUTOR To read the documentation online, Press F1 once to bring up context sensitive help. While the help box is displayed, press F1 once more. The file viewer will immediately display SPELL.DOC. SPELL.DOC must be in the PROGRAM or DATA directory. Press F9 to print it. PREPARING THE INSTALL DISKETTE FOR INSTALLATION TO FLOPPY DISKS The INSTALL program requires the availability of "COMMAND.COM" (your command interpreter). If you do not have a hard drive or you boot your computer from drive A:, you will need to copy "COMMAND.COM" from your DOS "System" disk to the Spelling Tutor installation diskette before proceeding with the installation. If installing to floppies, COMMAND.COM will be automatically copied to your program diskette by the INSTALL program as well, so that the transient portion of COMMAND.COM can be refreshed when terminating the Spelling Tutor. This prevents the message, "Insert disk with COMMAND.COM into drive A: and press any key". This will enable you to make use of an external editor in addition to allowing you to SHELL to Dos from within the program. If in rare circumstances you are not using COMMAND.COM, substitute the command interpreter for the operating system you are using. If you are unsure, type: "SET" at the Dos prompt and press ENTER. Look for the words: "COMSPEC=". The file name to the right of the equal sign is the name and path to your command interpreter. +============================================================+ | I N S T A L L A T I O N -- 2 F L O P P Y S Y S T E M | +============================================================+ (1.) Format two blank floppy diskettes in the following manner: Place your DOS diskette containing FORMAT.COM into drive A: and a blank diskette into drive B:. Type "A:FORMAT B:" press ENTER. This will be your PROGRAM diskette. When it is finished, format another diskette in the same way. This will be your DATA diskette. (2.) Place the SPELLBOUND! diskette into drive A: and with the blank formatted PROGRAM diskette still in drive B:, do the following. Type: "A:INSTALL" press ENTER, read all of the instructions and follow the prompts. Both destination diskettes will be inserted into drive B: at the proper time. (3.) If everything went okay, your program is now ready to run! Place the PROGRAM diskette into drive A:, the DATA diskette (containing SPELL.WDS, SPELL.DOC, etc. into drive B:, type: "B:" (this will change you to drive B:) and then type: "SPELL" and press ENTER. +===============================================================+ | I N S T A L L A T I O N -- H A R D O R H D D R I V E | +===============================================================+ (1.) Place the distribution diskette into drive A: and do the following: a: Type: "A:INSTALL" (without quotes) press ENTER. b: Read all of the instructions, and follow the prompts. The INSTALL program can make some very necessary changes to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS for you, or you can make them yourself if you are leery of having installation programs mess with your system. If you choose to have the program do it for you, the original copies of your programs will be backed up first, so the changes are reversible. If you have the program make these changes for you, then skip step (2.). (2.) Add the program directory to your PATH environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT or at the DOS prompt. If you already have a PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT, then append a semicolon before appending the directory. Example: PATH C:\DOS;C:\UTIL;C:\WP;C:\SPELL If there is no PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then you must enter the following: (Assuming the PROGRAM files were installed in "C:\SPELL") PATH C:\SPELL The PATH environment variable tells DOS where to search for commands it cannot find in the current directory. When you type "SPELL" from the DATA directory, DOS will not be able to find SPELL.EXE in the current directory. It will look through the directories listed in the PATH statement. IMPORTANT! If you have a hard drive system with a single High density drive, you will first have to install to a single directory on your hard drive, and then copy all the files from that directory to the diskette. +=====================================+ | Y O U R F I R S T S E S S I O N | +=====================================+ To start SPELLBOUND!, make the data directory your current directory. For example, if the data directory were C:\SPELL\CLASSONE, you would type: "C:" press ENTER and then "CD \SPELL\CLASSONE" press ENTER. When you have done this, type: "SPELL" press ENTER, and the program will begin. In your first session you will be presented with a couple of questions. The first is whether students will have access to functions which allow access to files or to the operating system. The other is whether you would like password protection so that students may only view their own records. Once installation is finished, the only person who will be able to change these settings is the person who logs on as "TEACHER". TEACHER must always enter a password to gain entrance. If a student were allowed to log in as teacher, he would be able to view other students' passwords, print out reports of their progress etcetera, so you may not disable password protection for the TEACHER. To change these initial settings at any time: (1.) Log in as TEACHER, and enter your password. (2.) Press ESC while at the MAIN MENU (3.) Key in "DEFAULT", then enter your "TEACHER" password again. (4.) While logged in as "DEFAULT", set up the configuration as you wish each new student to be configured the first time on. You may even run the Spelling Tutor and change the colors there. (Just press F1 in Spelling Tutor to see how to do this.) (5.) When the configuration is complete, either press F10 to quit or return to the Login screen and log in under your own name or "Teacher". The configuration you create as default is saved to DEFAULT.CFG in the program directory. This will be the initial configuration each student will receive the first time he logs in. If you have many classes (each class in its own directory), this configuration will affect all classes.