This file contains information about other software products available from ChaoSoft. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// File Manager StepUp v.2.0 for Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - dramatically improves File Manager. Provides standard FM's dialog boxes with additional useful elements ('history' lists, 'verify' check boxes, etc.); shows the dialogs with 3D effects; brings customizable Quick Menu and Execute Menu; allows to easily view, edit, or print arbitrary files; contains useful utilities (calculating the size of dirs including their subdirs, etc.). FM StepUp makes the File Manager an actually user friendly application. Try it - and you won't believe you worked without FM StepUp before. The way software should be! "FM StepUp ... does all manner of clever things. It adds 3D effects (a la Word 6 or Excel 5) to the dialog boxes, gives you a command-line history in all sorts of places ... and provides right-click pop-up menus in a variety of useful places ... FM StepUp is certainly good enough to try." Windows User UK, June 1994 Long description: ----------------- This is a MAJOR upgrade to the versions 1.x. If you tried any of the previous versions of the FM StepUp and did not like it by any reason, try this one - we hope you'll change your mind! SPECIAL NOTE for those who do not like registration reminders and love to evaluate shareware for long time: unlike many other shareware producers, we are using a passive reminder in this version -- you don't have to press any key or wait for some time to turn it off. SPECIAL NOTE for Windows for Workgroups users: if you tried and had given up the FM StepUp ver.1.x because of the conflict between FM StepUp and Toolbar, please take a look at the new version. That bug has been fixed and they (FM StepUp and Toolbar) enjoy each the other now. SPECIAL NOTE for network system administrators: now you can restrict File Manager in the same way as you do it for Program Manager - through [restrictions] section in a file. SPECIAL NOTE for registered users: thanks to your support, we have found the possibility to make the UPGRADE FROM ANY PREVIOUS VERSION OF FM STEPUP to version 2.0 FREE! If you are a registered user of the FM StepUp 1.x, you will receive new disk from us shortly. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Welcome to File Manager StepUp! // // the File Manager Extender // for Microsoft(R) Windows(tm) 3.1, 3.11 // and Windows for Workgroups(tm) 3.11 // // Version 2.0 // Shareware edition // // Copyright (c) 1994, ChaoSoft. // All rights reserved. // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- 1.1. About FM StepUp 1.2. What's new in version 2.0 1.3. Features of the FM StepUp 2.0 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 1.1 About File Manager StepUp ----------------------------- File Manager StepUp (or, briefly, FM StepUp) is a utility that dramatically improves File Manager. Instead of replacing File Manager, FM StepUp simply makes it better. When you install FM StepUp, additional commands are added to File Manager's menus, and existing commands are enhanced. FM StepUp makes the File Manager an actually user friendly application. With FM StepUp installed in your system you will perform various file management operations easier and faster. FM StepUp enhances standard dialog boxes of the File Manager, providing them with additional useful features (history lists, remembering you previous commands; 'verify' check boxes; 'browse' buttons; etc.). FM StepUp allows you to combine most frequently used commands of File Manager into Quick Menu, so that you can access them just pressing the right button of your mouse. FM StepUp makes your able to easily create, view, edit, or print arbitrary files, not necessarily associated with an application, and you can assign your favorite viewer or editor to do this. FM StepUp provides you with some unique or hard-to-find commands, allowing you, for example, to figure out the total size of a directory, including all its subdirectories; change date or time of the file; run the default screen saver whenever you want it to; etc. FM StepUp allows you to add your own commands to the File Manager and easily execute them. You may use this possibility to launch frequently used applications (such as Control Panel or Clipboard viewer) directly from File Manager menu, or to perform preprogrammed operations over files selected in a File Manager's window (UnZip or UnArj, for example). If you are a network administrator, FM StepUp can help you to restrict some of the File Manager's capabilities (in almost the same way as you do it for the Program Manager), allowing you to prevent your users from performing potentially dangerous or undesirable commands. After all, FM StepUp is highly customizable. You are in charge of almost every aspect of its functionality - from the size of the history lists to contents of the Quick Menu and Execute Menu. Try it - and you won't believe you worked without FM StepUp before. The way software should be! 1.2. What's new in the version 2.0 ---------------------------------- A LOT! New features (please see detailed list below), new documentation, new installation utility, new registration encouragement policy. No new bugs (hopefully!). The only old thing is the price. Yes, due to success of the FM StepUp ver.1.x and support of our registered users, we were able to significantly improve FM StepUp and keep the same low registration fee. 1.3. Features of the FM StepUp v.2.0 ------------------------------------ The following is the list of features the File Manager obtains after installing the FM StepUp. The signs 'NEW!' and 'UPDATED:' are used to mark new or updated features in comparison with previous versions of the FM StepUp. UPDATED: 1. 14 standard dialog boxes of the File Manager are now updated by the FM StepUp (and you are able to prevent any of them from updating, if you like!). Almost ALL the edit controls of the dialog boxes are provided with history lists keeping track of the text you typed into edit boxes. With FM StepUp you are able to recall any of them and edit it, if necessary, without typing all the text from scratch. (Before version 2.0 only a few specific dialog boxes were enhanced with the history lists). 2. The following dialog boxes: Move, Copy, and Copy Disk, are provided with the 'Verify' check boxes which enable you to easily set the verify mode on or off (with the same effect as entering command VERIFY ON/OFF at the DOS command prompt) before performing the operations. NEW! 3. The Run dialog box is supplied with two additional buttons, 'Command' and 'Argument', allowing you to browse your disks and choose a file to run or supply its filename as an argument for the command line. 4. The Move and Copy dialog boxes are provided with an additional button, 'Browse', in case you forgot the name of the directory to copy/move files in. 5. Print dialog is now provided with: 1) check box 'Copy to PRN' which makes you able to quickly print plain ASCII files, not necessarily associated with applications, or binary files obtained with using the 'Print to file' (or the like) option provided by many applications; NEW! 2) check box 'Eject', allowing you to specify whether to eject the last page or not, that is convenient for some printers; NEW! 3) edit box 'Copies', where you can specify the number of copies to make. The controls 2) and 3) above are activated and used only when using the 'Copy to PRN' mode. 6. The main menu of the File Manager is getting a new item, StepUp, containing a number of additional commands: New File - to instantaneously create a new file; View File - to view the contents of the file currently selected in the File Manager Directory Window using the Default Viewer; Edit File - to edit the contents of a selected file using the Default Editor. You are specifying the applications to be used as Default Editor and Viewer in the 'Preferences' dialog box of the FM StepUp; NEW! Execute - to perform a user-defined action on the currently selected file or to launch an application. By default it contains the following commands: Control Panel - to launch the Windows Control Panel from the File Manager; Clipboard - to run the Windows Clipboard viewer; DOS Prompt - to start the DOS session from the File Manager; PIF Editor - to run the PIF Editor; UnZip - to run the PKUNZIP utility for the currently selected file (assuming it's a ZIP archive); UnArj - to perform the 'ARJ x' command for the currently selected file (assuming it's an archive produced by the ARJ utility); You can change the commands of the 'Execute' menu, add new commands and otherwise customize it using the 'Preferences' dialog box of the FM StepUp. Special - to perform some useful operations: UPDATED: Total Size - to calculate the total length and space occupied for all the selected files and directories, including all the subdirectories; the directory to be analyzed can be selected in either Directory or Tree window of the File Manager; UPDATED: Change Date/Time - to change the date and/or time of all the selected files (not for just one file); NEW! Run Screen Saver - to launch the default Windows Screen Saver (usually specified with the Control Panel) any time you want to leave your machine (if you are using a screen saver with the password protection - you don't have to wait 5 min. to activate it!); Return to DOS, Restart Windows, Reboot System - name says it all; Preferences - to customize FM StepUp: UPDATED: - change the Default Viewer and/or Editor; you can now browse the directories to find the application you wish to use as the Default Viewer or Editor; NEW! - set up the desired way of dealing with the associated files; - specify the size of the 'history' lists; NEW! - choose the way of displaying new icon for the File Manager; UPDATED: - specify new name for the FM StepUp's menu item in the File Manager's main menu; NEW! - customize the Quick Menu; NEW! - customize the Execute Menu; UPDATED: - set up the desired appearance of the dialog boxes: (a) choose which standard dialog boxes of the File Manager (out of 14) you want to be updated by the FM StepUp (by maintaining history lists, verify check boxes, etc.); (b) specify the using the 3-D effects when displaying the controls; (c) specify the using the extended user interface when working with history lists; UPDATED:Help - to get detailed information on how to use the FM StepUp. About - to get information about the version of the FM UPDATED: StepUp and the person it's registered to (registered version only). 7. The right button of the mouse is now used to activate the Quick Menu - a set of frequently used commands, so that you don't have to spend time finding them in the File Manager's menu now. Starting from version 2.0, the Quick Menu consists of two portions: Top portion: the fixed set of the File Manager commands, collected in one place for your convenience. You UPDATED: can customize that part using the Preference dialog box. Any commands can be made easily accessible, even those created by you to be used in the 'Execute' menu; NEW! Bottom portion: the history list of the commands used. The most frequently used commands are accumulated here automatically and can be easily re-used. NEW! You can also specify the most convenient way of choosing commands from the Quick Menu - with the left or right button of mouse! UPDATED: 8. All the dialog boxes of the File Manager are now displayed with 3D effects (like that of Excel and some other applications). The bug which displayed improper 3D effects with some video drivers has been fixed. NEW! 9. FM StepUp comes with new cool icon for File Manager and you can specify its using with the Preferences dialog box; NEW! 10. For Network System Administrators: With the File Manager StepUp v.2.0 you can restrict the user's access to some of the features of the File Manager. (Microsoft has made it possible to restrict the Program Manager but somehow forgot to do it for the File Manager!) With the FM StepUp, you can place the file FMSTEPUP.SYS in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, make the [Restriction] section in that file, and add the following boolean entries to it (standard rules for specifying boolean entries of the win.ini and system.ini files apply here; particularly, 1/ON/TRUE/YES can be used interchangeably to turn the mode on, 0/OFF/FALSE/NO - to turn it off): NoShowHiddenSysFiles - to disable the 'Show Hidden/System Files' check box of the 'By File Type' dialog box; NoChangeFileAttrib - to disable the 'Attributes' group of the 'Properties' dialog box (and prevent users from changing attributes of files) NoRun - to disable 'OK' button of the 'Run' dialog box and prevent users from running applications using it; NoSaveFMSettings - to prevent users from saving the current settings of the File Manager on exit; NoCloseFileManager - to prevent user from closing the File Manager (with some restrictions); NoChangeFileDateTime - to disable 'OK' button on the Change Date/Time dialog and prevent users from modifying these file attributes; NoUninstallStepUp - to prevent user from uninstalling the FM StepUp (with some restrictions); NoSaveStepUpSettings - to prevent users from saving the current settings of the FM StepUp on exit; NoCustomizeExecMenu - to prevent users from customizing the 'Execute' menu of the FM StepUp; NoCustomizeQuickMenu - to prevent users from customizing the Quick Menu of the FM StepUp; NoChangeViewerEditor - to prevent users from changing the default viewer and editor in the Preferences dialog box; For more information please see on-line Help. Thank you for trying File Manager StepUp! ----------------------------- cut here --------------------------- ORDER / REGISTRATION FORM ________________________________________________________________ |[_] Yes! Send me just 1 package of the File Manager StepUp | software (the latest version) for my own use only, on the P| [_] 3.5" or [_] 5.25" disk for $19.95. l| e| [_] I've registered one of the previous versions of a| FM StepUp and, therefore, I am entitled to 50% s| discount, that is I am paying only $9.97 ! e|--------------------------------------------------------------- |[_] Yes! I and my friend(s) want to save. Send me ____ (more c| than one) packages of the FM StepUp software for only h| $14.95 each. We need ____ 3.5" and/or ____ 5.25" disks. e| I'm enclosing the list of my friends' names and addresses; c| all of them become the registered users of FM StepUp. k|--------------------------------------------------------------- |[_] Yes! I would like to order the File Manager StepUp software o| under a site license arrangement for ____ (more than 5) n| users, allowing my company or organization to legally e| install the FM StepUp on multiple computers. Send me the | installation disk of the [_] 3.5" or [_] 5.25" format. | The payment $9.95 for each user is enclosed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Payment amount for File Manager StepUp software (depending on your choice above): . . . . . . . . . . $ _________ Maine residents add 6% sales tax: . . . . . . . . . . $ _________ Shipping & Handling: (Continental U.S.: $1.00, AK,HI,Canada,Mexico: $2.00, International: $4.00) . . $ _________ TOTAL: $ _________ My [_] check, [_] Money order (payable to Chaosoft, U.S. funds, U.S. bank) or [_] U.S. currency is enclosed: NAME: _________________________ Phone: (_____)_______________ ADDRESS: COMPANY: Email address: Mail to: ChaoSoft, P.O.Box 43, Old Town, ME 04468-0043 Thank you for registering FM StepUp! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////