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   Distribution

   This program  is  FREEWARE/SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved by  the
   author. It may be freely  distributed if you copy the doc file, too .
   It's FORBIDDEN  to  gain  any  profit  by  distributing or/and using
   this program without my written permission !
   Intros you have created with this program may be  freely  distributed
   also with commercial software.A remark about 'Boot Intro Construction
   Set' would be nice.



   Purpose

   'Boot Intros' are small programs (1012 bytes)  which  are  put on the
   bootblock of a disk. They  appear if insert a disk into the drive for
   booting.  'Boot Intros'  are often  used  for important  messages  or
   notices. These intros cannot be installed on a hard disk !




   Instructions

   Just double click the icon or enter the name as a CLI command.It will
   open its own screen with  eight lines  for text (up to 44 characters)
   and a string gadget at the bottom for the text of the scrolling line.
   The number (1-8) of  that  line is defined  at  the left side  of the
   string gadget. You may also change the colour of a line by  click its
   colour gadget on the right side. If you use the freeware version  the
   scrolling line is always line 7 and line 5,6 & 8 are missing ! At the
   top you'll find the following eight gadgets :

   Read me : try it !
   Author  : try it !
   Clear   : clear all text gadgets
   Quit    : guess ?
   Read    : Read a previously created intro and copy it to the buffer.
   Write   : Write the intro to a disk.
   Install : Install a disk and delete an intro on the bootblock.
   Show    : Show the intro


   'Read', 'Write' and 'Install' will open  a requester and  ask you for
   the drive number. If you just have one drive then it's time  for  you
   to insert the  disk. 'Boot Intro Construction Set'  will  verify  the
   bootblock after writing. If you get a verify error, be careful! There
   are two possible reasons :a virus is running and intercepts the write
   command or a virus killer does the same - check it out !
   'Write' and  'Show' will put up the  intro and will check if the code
   and whole text will fit into 1012 bytes (about 200 bytes are reserved
   for characters). If  it  doesn't  fit you will  get   the  number  of
   overlapping characters. To exit the intro   just press the left mouse
   button  and move the mouse pointer  away from  the gadget  before you
   release the button.PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WRITING A NEW BOOT BLOCK WILL
   DESTORY THE OLD ONE. SO SOME PROGRAMS WHICH USE THE BOOT  BLOCK  WILL
   BE  DESTROYED  BY  WRITING  A  BOOT  INTRO  -  YOU   USE  "BOOT INTRO
   CONSTRUCTION SET" AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!




   NTSC & PAL

   The intros will run on NTSC and PAL machines. The  eighth  line won't
   be visible on NTSC screens. In this case you should use black without
   any text otherwise you'll see the colour on the top of the intro.