DOS DOORWAY 1.1
                           Copyright 1993 by:
                        Studio, Eh? Productions
                          All rights reserved

        DOS Doorway is a small utility written in Visual Basic 3.0 (Pro) for
Windows.  It is essentially an icon that, when you double-click on it,
launches a DOS window.

                              REQUIREMENTS

        A computer running Windows 3.1

        A copy of VBRUN300.DLL somewhere on your path.  The best place
is in the windows\system directory.

                              INSTALLATION

        Make a directory for the executable.  I put mine in
C:\WINDOWS\DOSDOOR, but you can put it wherever you please.

        Put DOSDOOR.PIF into your Windows main directory (this is where
Windows looks for .pif's by default).  Again, mine is C:\WINDOWS, but
you could have your machine set up altogetherly different.

        Put SYSMENU.VBX into your \windows\system directory.

        If you'd like DOS Doorway to come up automatically when you load
Windows, edit your WIN.INI file so that the load= line includes the full
path and filename of the program.  In my case, I have three things that
autoload from there so the line looks like:

      load=progrm1.exe progrm2.exe c:\windows\dosdoor\dosdoor.exe]

        That's it!

        NOTE: that if you are using something other than COMMAND.COM
you'll have to go into the Pif editor and edit DOSDOOR.PIF to reflect
whatever command processor you use.

                               TO USE IT

        Double-click on the icon.  Pause a moment.  There's your DOS
window!

        To close it, just single click the icon and choose Close from
the menu.

                                HISTORY

                           December 14, 1993
        Version 1.1 released.  Contains one small bugfix and the
SYSMENU.VBX, which allows the About Box.

                           November 12, 1993
        Version 1.0 released.

                               GUARANTEE

        I guarantee nothing except that this works fine on my machine
and it'll certainly take up about 9k on YOUR harddisk too!

        Neither the author nor Studio, Eh? Productions will be held
liable for any damage incurred by the use of this program.

                                 PRICE

        I'm releasing DOS Doorway as FreeWare.  If you like it you could
drop me a postcard at the address below, but there are NO fees nor
restrictions on how many computers you can run it on, etc.

        If you REALLY insist on it... you can send me a couple of bucks
to pay for my coffee or ale habits!  :)

        Send correspondence to:

                                Mark Alan Pruitt
                                c/o Studio, Eh? Productions
                                2318 2nd Ave #337-A
                                Seattle, WA  98121

                                 -=*=-
        I'd like to extend my special thanks to the nice fella at
Microsoft's Visual Basic Technical Support line for helping me overcome
the "how do I do it from an icon?" problem.

        Also special thanks to Paul Fremantle in England who wrote the
wonderful SYSMENU.VBX and then went through so much trouble to get it to
me.
                                 -=*=-

        Enjoy!

Mark Pruitt
Seattle, WA
December 14, 1993