StartE v1.1
		     © 1996 Brain Destruction S/W
			  Written By Burnsy

1.  Introduction             - What does StartE do?

2.  Usage                    - How do I use StartE?

3.  Author                   - All about Burnsy

4.  Other S/W                - Other Brain Destruction releases

5.  Hard Rock Studio

1.  StartE/Introduction

Do you have a program on your HD that needs as much memory as it can grab?
Does this mean you have to resort a tiny Startup-Sequence and/or rubbish
preferences, to save as much memory as possible upon booting? Well you need
do this no-longer.

StartE lets you have an extra 10 Startup-Sequences, that can be used to do
anything.  Take my 5 extra for example...

 Huge Startup                - A nice huge memory hogging fancy one.
 Tiny Startup                - A small Workbench that uses little RAM.
 AWeb Startup                - Boots straight into AWeb browser.
 The Settlers Startup        - Just runs The Settlers
 Pinball Fantasies Startup   - Just runs Pinball Fantasies

These 5 startup sequences all work wonderfully, but having to rename them as
Startup-Sequence each time I wanted to use them, would become tedious.  This
is where StartE comes in.



2.  StartE/Usage

StartE is very simple to use.  The StartE program which should accompany
these docs does not have an icon, and should be copied to the C directory.
Then the following should be added to your Startup-Sequence...

 C:StartE
 If EXISTS RAM:Temp.BAT
    Execute RAM:Temp.BAT
 EndIf
 ...

This means, when you first boot, StartE will be run, it will check to see if
the right mouse button is held down, if so then the program will continue,
if not then it will quit back to your Startup-Sequence. Since RAM:Temp.BAT
will not exist, your startup will continue as normal. If however you hold
the right mouse button down during booting, then the program will attempt to
look for a file called S:StartupPrefs. If this is not found, StartE will
return an error.  S:StartupPrefs contains the information for your boot
menu. S:StartupPrefs can be created/edited using any ASCII text editor like
ED.  The first line of the file should be the menu title, with the remaining
lines made up as follows.

One line containingg the menu text for that option, then a line containing
the corresponding script file to use as the new Startup-Sequnce.

So my S:StartupPrefs is as follows

 Burnsy's Startup Enhancer
 Huge Startup
 S:Startups/Huge
 Tiny Startup
 S:Startups/Tiny
 AWeb Browser
 S:Startups/AWeb
 The Settlers
 S:Startups/Sett
 Pinball
 S:Startups/Pinball

StartE will then present you with the options, and wait for you to press the
corresponding number key, or the ESC key to abort.  If for example you
presses '2' to use the Tiny startup, then the file S:Startups/Tiny will be
copied to RAM:Temp.BAT, and so it would be executed.  So my startup would
consist of the contents of S:Startups/Tiny which is...

 LoadWB
 EndCLI

It's a good idea to end all your startups with EndCLI to prevent them from
returning to your original Startup-Sequence.

That's about it, if you have any problems mail me.



3.  StartE/Author

This program was written by Anthony Burns. (Burnsy) I can be contacted for
flames, requests (no suicide ones please), job offers :) or just to say Hi,
at the following address's.

 FidoNet           2:256/505.4

 Internet          aburnsy@ncl-coll.ac.uk        (Until July 1996)

 Internet          Anthony.Burnsy@p4.f505.n256.z2.fidonet.org

 Snail             8, Ennerdale,
		   Albany,
		   Washingon,
		   Tyne & Wear,
		   NE37 1BN
		   ENGLAND

Or I can be contacted at the Hard Rock Studio (See END)


4.  StartE/Other BD Releases

RealTime v1.2                - For users without a battery backed up clock
			       It emulates the Time preferences program,
			       but saves the time to a file on disk for
			       future use.

256Colour v1.0               - Icon colour correction, stops MagicWB icons
			       looking wierd on screens with more than
			       eight colours.

ExtraScreen v1.9ß            - Opens intelligent public screen everytime
			       a program requests it. (Beta Version)

AltNTab v1.0                 - Switches between windows using a hot key,
			       similar to Alt & Tab on MS Windows

Future Releases...

Chord                        - Guitar chord database.  Including guitar
			       tuner.

CXxxxx                       - Many small commodities programs.

NanoBlank                    - The worlds smallest screen blanker.

All programs can be downloaded from the excellant Hard Rock Studio


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