WELCOME TO WINBATCH! This disk contains the WinBatch Interpreter version 3.2B *** LATE-BREAKING NEWS *** Announcing WinBatch, a complete honest-to-goodness Windows 3.0 batch language. WinBatch allows you to create sophisticated batch language files to control your Windows environment. WinBatch has nearly two hundred different functions to manipulate files, directories, windows, and other window applications. WinBatch even has a SENDKEY statement that allows you to send keystrokes to other windows applications. WinBatch supports DDE, Networks, and all Multimedia devices. WinBatch has dialog box capability for real Windows dialog boxes. The new WinMacro facility allows you to have menuitems on any and/or all applications, and to have HotKeys defined to do most any task. Be sure to read the NEWSTUFF.MAN file where all the latest additions are documented. *** Be sure the following files win up in a directory defined in your DOS PATH statement. WINBATCH.EXE WINMACRO.EXE WWWD0406.DLL WINMACHK.DLL WWWDEALR.DLL Also check the extensions section of the WIN.INI file to be sure the WBT extension points to the directory where WINBATCH is installed. *** Announcing the WinBatch Compiler *** Also available is our "WinBatch Compiler". With the WinBatch compiler, you can turn your WBT files into standalone EXE files that you can distribute on a royalty-free basis. Have a BIG network? Want all your users to run your WBT files? Compile the WBT files with the WinBatch Compiler and put the EXE's up on the server. Making specialized WinBatch files for clients? Don't want them modifying your files? Just compile the WBT files, and give the EXE to your client. Are you the "corporate guru". Get a compiler. Compile those WBT files and hand them out like candy. The WinBatch compiler, a separate product from the WinBatch Interpreter contained in these files, is available for $395.00, plus shipping, if applicable. PACKING LIST: Most files will end in a $. Some of them have been compressed and will be expanded by the setup program. README TXT This File README2 TXT ...continued... WSETUP EXE The Windows-based setup program. WSETUP INF Information file for the setup program. WB__VER ??? A dummy file. ??? is the current version number. WBINXZ EXE More of the setup program. The following files *might* be in a WINBATCH subdirectory. WINBATCH EXE The main WinBatch EXE file WWWD0406 DLL A required Dynamic Link Library WWWDLANG.DLL Language strings. WINMACRO EXE The main WinMacro EXE file WINMACHK DLL A required Dynamic Link Library WWWDEALR.DLL A required Dynamic Link Library WININFO EXE A utility to help determine window size and position for the WinPlace function. BROWSER EXE A handy file viewing utility WIL HLP A Windows helpfile on the WIL language. WINBATCH MAN The disk-based manual. Possibly compressed. NEWSTUFF MAN Additions since the manual was printed. DOSPASTE WBT Sample WBT file. How-2 paste to DOS apps. STONES WBT Sample WBT file. "Stones" game -- Can you count? STONES WTX Text file used by STONES.WBT for instructions ZOOMER WBT Sample WBT file. Runs apps from ProgMan as maximized. SOL WBT Sample WBT file. Solitaire with a timer. PKUNZIP WBT Sample WBT file. PKUNZIP shell. PKUNZUP WDG Dialog box definition for PKUNZIP shell. INTACTV WBT Sample WBT file. Allows for interactive commands. SYSINFO WBT Displays system information. INIEDIT WBT Easy INI file Editor. PLAYMIDI WBT Sample WBT file. Plays MIDI files. MCITEST WBT Sample WBT file. Allows interactive control of Multimedia devices. PLAY-CD WBT Sample WBT file. Plays Audio CD's. GLOBAL WDF Sample Macro definition file. For ALL applications. NOTEPAD WDF Sample Macro definition file. For NOTEPAD app only. SIMPLE WBT Sample Macro file. Just a simple little WBT file. STRANGE WBT Sample Macro file. Just a strange little WBT file. RUNGEN WBT Sample Macro file. A generic WBT file launcher. RUNPARM WBT Sample Macro file. A special WBT file launcher. RUNPARM WLS Sample ASCII file of assorted WBT files with parameters. OPENALL WBM Sample Macro file. Opens Notepad filebox as *.* DATETIME WBM Sample Macro file. Inserts date/time into notepad. HOW TO INSTALL WINBATCH >>>AUTOMAGIC INSTALL Use our WSETUP.EXE program, which will copy the files for you and install a WINBATCH group in the program manager with various sample files. To use our WSETUP.EXE program... (Manual install instructions below) 1) Close down all extraneous Windows applications. 2) Double-Click on the WSETUP.EXE program 3) When the setup program asks for a directory, specify initial directory, or accept the given default (C:\WINDOWS). NOTE: If you are updating from a previous version, and made any of the WinBatch files READ-ONLY, remove the read-only attribute from the files before running setup. (Or else the setup process will hang) >>>MANUAL INSTALL The manual install is not actually recommended, but here is a little information you may need if you insist on doing a manual install. Any file ending with a $ MAY be a compressed file which needs to be expanded with the provided WEXPAND.EXE program before use. (This is mostly done with the disk based version of the product, not the ZipFile version) E.G. WEXPAND.EXE WINBATCH.EX$ WINBATCH.EXE For the basic installation, all you have to do is get the following files into a directory mentioned in your DOS path statement. WINBATCH.EXE WINBATHK.DLL WINMACRO.EXE WINMACHK.EXE WININFO.EXE (Optional) and GLOBAL.WDF NOTEPAD.WDF You will probably also want any file whose extension begins with W, as in *.W*