QDOC.TXT :                           Copyright 1993 QUART, Inc.

Users' Manual for QDOC.EXE - 
           Documentation Utility for QCDRUN (TM) CD-ROM Library



        QDOC.EXE is the Documentation Utility for the QCDRUN CD-ROM 
Library System for Microsoft Windows. QDOC allows you to read and
print on-line the Users' Manuals and other documentation files
installed to your hard disk with QCDRUN. 

         QDOC is a viewing shell that calls NOTEPAD (which it 
assumes is located in your Windows directory) to let you read ASCII 
documentation files from your hard disk and print them out. (You may 
prefer to use QDOC to print them all out and remove the documentation 
files from your hard drive to save space.) The one exception is the 
"Print Registration Form" function, which instead calls Windows WRITE 
(which it again assumes is located in your Windows directory) to 
complete and print out a formatted registration form, stamped with 
date, time, and identification information (your name and company 
name) as you entered during QCDRUN installation. 

    
        QDOC: Initial Operation:

        Click "Yes" in the menu item "Do You Want to Print or Read
           Documentation?" from within QINSTALL, QCD, or QLIB.      

        
        QDOC : General Instructions and Operations

Please be aware:        

        At any prompt in QDOC - Clicking "Cancel" unconditionally
terminates the program and returns control to the calling subroutine.

        All mouse operations in QDOC use the (standard) left mouse
button.

        Any timed Message or Display window (without an "OK" button) 
can be closed, allowing the program to proceed ahead to the set 
time (which is a maximum of 5 seconds), by placing the cursor in 
the window and clicking the left mouse button. 
 
                 
        After the initial menu ("Do You Want to Read or Print 
Documentation?") QDOC displays a menu of the available options.
  
        These are:
                - Summary Description - file FILE_ID.DIZ
                - QCDRUN Release Notes and License
                                      - file README.TXT
                - QCD Manual          - file QCD.TXT
                - QDOC Manual         - file QDOC.TXT (this file)
                - QINSTALL Manual     - file QINST.TXT
                - QLIB Manual         - file QLIB.TXT
                - Registration Form   - file REGISFRM.WRI
           and  - Exit to Main Program
           
         All documentation files except REGISFRM.WRI are in pure 
ASCII form and viewed or printed through NOTEPAD.EXE. (An ASCII 
Registration Form, REGISFRM.TXT, is supplied separately in the QCDRUN 
working directory.) REGISFRM.WRI is viewed and printed using WRITE.EXE 
to allow Clipboard text insertions not available in NOTEPAD. Requesting 
any of these displays the file in the left half of your screen. The 
file display window can be maximized to fill your display, resized 
or moved around the display, or scrolled to allow you to read the 
full file on-screen, in the normal Windows manner. 

        After you have selected and displayed your file, a menu 
appears in the middle of the display offering three options 
        
        - View Another File;
        - Print Current File; OR
        - Exit to Main Program.
        
        If the menu obstructs your view of the file, it can be 
dragged elsewhere on the screen by the mouse in the normal Windows 
manner.        
        
        You can read the current file on-screen without making 
another specific menu selection. 

        Selecting "View Another File" closes the file displayed 
and calls up the file selection menu.
 
        Selecting "Print Current File" sends the appropriate key 
commands to NOTEPAD to print out the file being displayed and exit 
back to the file selection menu. 

        A variation of "Print Current File" is "Print Registration
Form", which appears in the menu only when REGISFRM.WRI is being 
viewed. Selecting this inserts the date and time, your name, and 
your company name into the on-screen Registration Form, pauses 
execution to allow you to complete the form on-screen from the 
keyboard. Pressing F10 resumes processing, printing out the 
Registration Form before exiting back to the file selection menu. 

        Selecting "Exit to Main Program" completes the current 
operations and returns control to the calling program (QINSTALL, 
QLIB, or QCD).                                                                 


                          ENJOY YOUR CD-ROMs!