
DOS Manager is a program designed to help you perform many
useful operations with your disks, files, and directories.
A user-friendly menu structure makes DOS Manager easy to
use.  You can view directories on your hard disk and floppy
disks; copy, rename, move, and delete files; and examine
text, database, spreadsheet and other common types of files.
Small text files can be edited with DOS Manager.  You can
even run other programs from within DOS Manager.


^C^IGETTING STARTED

To start running this program now, press F10.  To run it
from outside the ON DISK MONTHLY menu system, you can type
DOSMAN from the DOS prompt.  It is strongly suggested that
you install DOS Manager to a hard disk, in a directory that
is somewhere in your DOS PATH (as set in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file), so that you can run it at any time.


^C^IADVANCED COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS

You can follow the name "DOSMAN" with any of the following
command switches for special options:

     DOSMAN /M          runs in monochrome mode.
                        [e.g., for LCD screens on which
                        the normal colors are hard to read]

     DOSMAN /NOMOUSE    Disables the mouse.  Use if you
                        are having compatibility problems
                        due to your system's mouse driver,
                        or if you just don't want to use
                        your mouse for whatever reason.

     DOSMAN /?          See all possible command switches.

In addition, you can specify a particular directory to start
at by typing its name in the command line:

^1     DOSMAN C:\FILES\

If you specify a filename, you will go straight into file-
viewing mode with that particular file, then exit to DOS
when the viewing is finished; this lets DOS Manager be used
as a command-line-accessible file lister:

^1     DOSMAN C:\FILES\TEST.TXT

If you include the command switch /EDIT and specify a
filename, you will go straight into the built-in text editor
to edit the file you have selected:

^1     DOSMAN /EDIT C:\FILES\TEST2.DOC

Of course, you do not need to use any of these advanced
parameter options; all functions, including file viewing and
editing, are accessible in a menu-driven way within DOS
Manager.  These options merely provide another means by
which advanced users may make use of the power of DOS
Manager.


^C^IARE YOU SICK OF THIS TEXT?

To stop this text from displaying every time you run DOS
Manager, select the "Toggle Opening Info Text" item from the
Options menu (from the main screen, press Alt-O then I).
From then on, this text will not display at the start of
each run, until you select that menu item again to re-enable
this option.  (Typing DOSMAN /Q from the DOS prompt also
turns off the opening info text, and DOSMAN /INFO re-enables
it.)

The "Opening Info Text" feature is one of several things
which are saved to disk so that they retain their status
through different runs of this program.  Other saved
parameters are the Sound vs. Silence setting (toggled using
F2), and the chosen type of directory sorting (set by
pressing F6).


^C^IAND NOW...

Press F10 to get into DOS Manager now.  Press F9 twice in a
row to bring up this text again.

Press F1 at most places within this program to see a
context-sensitive help screen.  Press F1 again while a help
screen is visible (except while viewing another scrollable
text file such as this one) to see the full instructions for
DOS Manager. 
