
GUITAR TEACHER 1.70 for Windows
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Author: Michael Fenemore - Celista Software

Guitar Teacher is a system for displaying guitar-chord diagrams.

Features:  * Seven chord formulas
             (major, major 7, minor, minor 7, 7, suspended 4, 7 suspended 4)

           * Six alternatives for each chord

           * 504 chord diagrams in total

           * Formula and voicing displayed

           * Right- or left-handed fingering

           * Hear the notes of each chord through the computer's speaker

           * Includes a guitar tuner

           * Instruction on tuning and chord structure


Hardware and software requirements
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  Computer: IBM or compatible running Microsoft Windows 3.1
  Video:    VGA color or better, supports all screen resolutions
  Other:    Mouse required
            VBRUN200.DLL required (see below)


Installing Guitar Teacher
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Pre-installation
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If you have a copy of VBRUN200.DLL in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, then
skip this section and continue at the sub-heading "Installation".

Guitar Teacher requires the file named VBRUN200.DLL to be copied into your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory BEFORE running the install program.  This file may
not be present with the copy of Guitar Teacher you have aquired.  If it is,
use the DOS COPY command or the Windows File Manager to copy it.

Example:

               copy  a:\vbrun200.dll  c:\windows\system


VBRUN200.DLL may instead be present in compressed form as VBRUN200.EXE.
This is a self-extracting file that must be expanded into the WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory.  VBRUN200.DLL is created by running VBRUN200.EXE.  The expansion
operation must be executed from DOS.  (See instructions below.)

If VBRUN200.DLL is not present in either form, then it will have to be
aquired from another source.  Check your usual sources for shareware.


Creating VBRUN200.DLL from DOS
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1. Set the current default directory to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
   The following is most likely what you need to type:

               c:
               cd c:\windows\system

2. Specify the location (path) for VBRUN200.EXE followed by the the command
   to run it.  If VBRUN200.EXE is stored on a diskette in drive A:, in a
   sub-directory called GT, type:

               a:\gt\vbrun200

These commands assume:

  1. That your copy of Windows is on drive C:.
  2. That you are installing Guitar Teacher from a diskette in drive A:
       where VBRUN200.EXE is stored in a sub-directory called GT.


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Installation
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Guitar Teacher must be installed from Windows, not DOS.  To install Guitar
Teacher using the Windows File Manager, select the directory where the
compressed Guitar Teacher files are stored and double-click the file called
GTSETUP.EXE.


Files before installation:

  3D.VB_
  CHORDS.DA_
  DEMO.TX_
  ENHANCE.EX_
  GT.CFG
  GT.EX_
  GTSETUP.EXE
  HZ.DAT
  INDEX.DAT
  ORDERFRM.EX_
  README.TXT
  SETUPKIT.DLL
  STRUCT.TX_
  TUNING.TX_
  TV.EX_
  USING.TX_
  VBRUN200.EXE


Files installed to the Guitar Teacher directory:

  3D.VBX
  CHORDS.DAT    Guitar Teacher chord database.
  DEMO.TXT      Sample text file that is long enough and wide enough to
                  demonstrate all of Text View's features.
  ENHANCE.EXE   An advanced version of Guitar Teacher called "Guitar Pro" is
                  available.  ENHANCE.EXE previews Guitar Pro's
                  enhancements.
  GT.CFG        Guitar Teacher configuration file.
  GT.EXE        Guitar Teacher.
  HZ.DAT        Guitar Teacher data file.
  INDEX.DAT     Guitar Teacher data file.
  ORDERFRM.EXE  Order form printing utility.
  README.TXT    This file.
  STRUCT.TXT    Instruction on chord structure.
  TUNING.TXT    Instruction on tuning.
  TV.EXE        Text View.
  USING.TXT     Instruction on using Guitar Teacher.

  Text View creates a file called TEXTVIEW.INI and stores it in the Windows
    directory.


Text View Options
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You may wish to copy Text View's icon into another program group, for
instance, whichever group you use to hold all of your Windows accessories.

In the Windows Program Manager:

  Click (not double-click) Text View's icon so its caption is highlighted,
  then choose the following:

    File
    Copy...

  Then choose the group you want to copy to.  You can now run Text View from
  the Guitar Teacher group or the group containing the new copy.

When you double-click the Text View icon (with the caption "Read Me") in
Guitar Teacher's program group, the file README.TXT is automatically loaded
into Text View on start up.  This feature is controlled by setting Text
View's command line.  It's best to leave the copy in the Guitar Teacher
group as is, but for an icon you copy to another program group, you can
change Text View's command line so that it doesn't load a file on start up.

In the Windows Program Manager:

  Click (not double click) Text View's icon so its caption is highlighted,
  then choose the following:

    File
    Properties...
    Command line:

  Remove the filename at the end of the command line.

  You can cause Text View to load any text (ASCII) file.

	Command line syntax:

		TV [[drive:][path]filename]

	Example:

		c:\gtwin.170\tv c:\txtfiles\maillist.txt

  This example assumes you have a sub-directory named TXTFILES which stores
  a file named MAILLIST.TXT.


Large Fonts
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Text View uses the Windows "Terminal" font so that extended ASCII code
graphic characters will be displayed properly.  An error can occur if you
have used your video card software to display "large fonts".  Using large
fonts causes other problems for Text View and Guitar Teacher as well.  If
you are using large fonts, use your video card software to reset Windows to
use "normal fonts".


Association
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You can "associate" filename extensions with Text View.  For example, the
extension "TXT" is usually associated with the Windows Notepad editor.  This
means that any time you double-click a filename with a TXT extension in the
Windows File Manager, Notepad automatically starts and loads the file you
clicked.  If you spend more time viewing text files than you do editing
them, you may wish to associate the TXT extension with Text View.  Run the
File Manager for help on associating.