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//  Welcome to File Manager StepUp (16-bit version)
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//  *the* File Manager Extender for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 3.1/3.11,
//  Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and Windows 95/98
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//  Version 3.51 (16-bit)          Last updated: December 20, 1999
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//  Copyright (c) 1994-99, WinAbility.Com. All rights reserved.
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//  http://www.winability.com/  "The Way Software Should Be!" (tm)
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This file contains introductory information regarding FM StepUp.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1.  Introduction

    1.1.  About FM StepUp
    1.2.  What's new in this version 
    1.3.  This is FREE software!
    1.4.  Make File Manager recognize and use 
          Long File Names under Windows 95/98!
    
2.  Installing FM StepUp

    2.1.  Using SETUP utility

      2.1.1.  How to quickly try out this program
      2.1.2.  Installing on a hard disk or network drive
      2.1.3.  Uninstalling FM StepUp

    2.2.  Manual installation/deinstallation
    2.3.  A note about [Restrictions] for File Manager

3.  Acknowledgements

4.  Obtaining the latest version of the program

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//      1.  INTRODUCTION
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1.1  About File Manager StepUp
------------------------------

File Manager StepUp (or FM StepUp) is a utility that improves File
Manager dramatically.  Instead of replacing File Manager, FM StepUp
simply makes it better.  When you install FM StepUp, additional
commands are added to the menus of the File Manager, and existing
commands are enhanced.

Featured in the January 1995, WINDOWS Magazine, Superior Shareware
section and rated FIVE STARS by Ziff-Davis Interactive!

   "[WinAbility] accomplishes what Microsoft couldn't ...  
    an excellent shareware product that enhances the power and 
    usefulness of Windows' [File Manager] ..." - Scott A. May, 
    Columbia Daily Tribune, 10/94
        
   "FM StepUp ...  does all manner of clever things...  FM StepUp is
    certainly good enough to try." - Mike Hardaker, Windows User UK,
    06/94
        
   "Once you have started using it you'll never want to give it up!"
    - Matt McLeod, Australian PC User, 06/94
         
   "File Manager StepUp ...  is chock full of excellent features.
    It easily rates among the best available FM add-ins..." - Steven
    J.Cohen, WinOnLine Review, 2/95
        
Here is the list of features File Manager gets with FM StepUp:

o    Enhanced dialog boxes, including history lists, browse
     buttons, verify check boxes, etc.

o    Commands to easily create, view, edit or print arbitrary
     files, not necessarily associated with an application.

o    Customizable Execute Menu, that provides an easy way to
     access frequently used applications and perform
     pre-programmed operations on currently selected files.

o    Customizable Quick Menu, instantly accessible with the right
     mouse button, contains the most frequently used commands and
     keeps track of the execution history of other commands.

o    Several special commands are provided to make you more
     productive:  

     1.  Total Size, allows you to figure out the size of a
         directory, including all subdirectories; 

     2.  Change Date/Time, allows you to change date or time
         attributes for a file;

     3.  Run Screen Saver; 

     4.  Return To DOS; Restart Windows; Reboot System, etc.

o    Complete context-sensitive Help is available from all
     dialog boxes.  The Help file provides a complete user's
     guide for FM StepUp.

o    FM StepUp is highly customizable. A user can control virtually
     every aspect of FM StepUp, from choosing a name for its menu
     to specifying which dialog boxes to enhance.

Try it - You won't believe how you were able to work without FM
StepUp.

"The way software should be!"(tm)

1.2.  What's new in this version:
----------------------------------

- You no longer have to pay for using FM StepUp.
  It's "freeware" now!

- The documentation to the program has been updated.

1.3. This is FREE software
----------------------------------

You are no longer required to pay the licensing fee for 
continued use of this software. Enjoy!

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1.4.  Make File Manager recognize and use Long File Names 
      under Windows 95/98!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FM StepUp now supports long file names under Windows 95/98. Although
File Manager itself does not display long file names under Windows
95/98, there is a third-party utility, FMLFNS, which adds long file
name support to File Manager under Windows 95/98.

With FMLFNS, File Manager displays long file names in its windows
and uses long file names in its commands.  The evaluation versions
of FMLFNS and many other useful utilities produced by Prifling
Software are available at most online sources.  For the latest
information, point your web browser to:

   http://www.wincorner.com

Note: FMLFNS is NOT a part of FM StepUp.  The FMLFNS utility is
produced by a software vendor independent on and in no way
affiliated with WinAbility.Com.  The reference to FMLFNS is provided 
here solely for your convenience.  Continued use of FMLFNS requires
separate registration with its author.  Please refer to FMLFNS
documentation for more information.

If you are using Windows 95/98, you may find many features of FM StepUp
in Explorer (right-button menus, history lists in dialog boxes,
Quick View facility, etc.) However, you may still find the *old*
File Manager, enhanced with FM StepUp, to be a good addition to your
arcenal of file management tools.

Here is a short list of advantages of using File Manager with FM StepUp:

- File Manager runs *much* faster than Explorer;

- File Manager is a MDI (Multiple Document Interface) application,
  that provides easy access to different directories at the same
  time;
  
- FM StepUp provides a number of features absent in Explorer, like
  the 'Total Size' command and customizable 'Execute' menu.
  
File Manager is not made available automatically when you install
Windows 95/98, however you can easily add it to your Desktop - just
create a new shortcut and specify 'WINFILE.EXE' in its command line.

Of course, please keep in mind that FM StepUp was designed to be
used under Windows 3.1/3.11, so some of its features may become
useless or not functioning under Windows 95/98. 

We also offer separate products, Singularity and StepUp, designed 
specifically to improve the user interface of Windows 95/98. 
Please visit http://www.winability.com/ for more information.

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//      2.  INSTALLING File Manager StepUp
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Unlike most other Windows applications, FM StepUp is not a stand-
alone program; there is no special executable file you would run to
start FM StepUp.  To use the program, all you need is to properly
install it and, every time your run File Manager, FM StepUp will run
automatically.

2.1. Using Setup utility
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FM StepUp comes with an automatic SETUP utility.  Use SETUP when
you want to temporarily activate/deactivate the software or install
it onto your hard disk or network drive for permanent use.

2.1.1. HOW TO QUICKLY TRY OUT FM StepUp
---------------------------------------

If you obtained FM StepUp on a diskette or CD-ROM and want to take a
look at the utility without installing it onto your hard disk, run
SETUP.EXE from the FMSTEPUP directory on the diskette or CD-ROM and
choose the 'Activate' button when prompted.

  - to run SETUP.EXE, choose File | Run from main menu of Program 
    Manager or File Manager and type into the 'Run' dialog box:  

        A:\FMSTEPUP\SETUP.EXE

    (assuming that the diskette is inserted into the 'A' floppy 
    drive) 

After that, run File Manager.  You should see a new entry in the
main menu, 'StepUp' (Note: If there is no such entry, FM StepUp has
not been activated; see information below for possible reasons.) Of
course, be sure that the diskette or CD with FM StepUp is available
while File Manager is loading!

Try this:

- place the mouse cursor in a File Manager window and click with 
  the right button.  The Quick Menu should pop up with a number of 
  choices; try some of them.  

- open 'StepUp' submenu and choose 'Special'; try commands from it;

- open standard dialog boxes of the File Manager: e.g., Run, Copy, 
  Move,  etc.  Don't they look better with 3-D effects?  Are the 
  history lists next to the editable fields handy?

- choose StepUp | Preferences: what do you want to customize?  Try 
  buttons: Dialogs; Quick Menu; Execute Menu; try to change the 
  menu name 'StepUp' to something else.  

Now, if you see that FM StepUp is not what you need, run SETUP.EXE
and choose the 'Deactivate' button.  In addition, to completely
clean your system, you should delete the FMSTEPUP.INI file from your
WINDOWS directory.

On the other hand, if you want to give the program a longer trial
and wish to install it onto your hard disk or network drive, choose
the 'Install' button when SETUP.EXE prompts you.  Please see the
next section for more information.

2.1.2. Installing on a hard disk or network drive
-------------------------------------------------

If you've already copied all files from the FM StepUp package onto
your hard disk (for instance, you have extracted the files from an
archive), run SETUP.EXE and choose the 'Activate' button.

If you don't have the FM StepUp files on the hard disk, choose
'Install' instead.  Then enter the path to the directory where you
want FM StepUp to be installed.  In this case, SETUP.EXE will copy
all the files to the new location and then activate them.  In
addition, you'll be prompted to create a separate program group for
FM StepUp.  It isn't essential to have such a group, but it may be
convenient.  In any case, it's your decision!

2.1.3. Uninstalling FM StepUp
-----------------------------

To prevent File Manager from loading and using FM StepUp, run
SETUP.EXE and choose the 'Deactivate' button.  If you decide to
start using FM StepUp later on, run SETUP.EXE and choose 'Activate'.

Otherwise, to completely remove FM StepUp from your system,
deactivate it with the SETUP.EXE utility (see above) and remove all
the files from the directory on your hard disk or network drive
where you have installed FM StepUp.  In addition, erase file
FMSTEPUP.INI from your WINDOWS directory and, if you created it
during installation, delete the 'FMStepUp' program group from the
Program Manager.

2.2. Manual installation/deinstallation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If the automatic installation fails for any reason, you may install
FM StepUp manually:

1.  Create a directory for FM StepUp on your hard disk, say
    C:\FMSTEPUP, and copy all the files from the FM StepUp
    installation disk into that directory.  If you obtained the FM
    StepUp files compressed in an archive, extract all the files
    from it.

2.  Close File Manager.

3.  Open file WINFILE.INI for editing (using Notepad or any other
    ASCII text editor).  This file is located in the WINDOWS
    directory on your hard disk (or the directory you specified when
    installing Windows).  Please note: The file you need is
    WINFILE.INI, not the WIN.INI file!

    Find the section [AddOns] in this file and enter the following 
    line right after the string [AddOns]:

        FM StepUp=C:\FMSTEPUP\FMSTEPUP.DLL

    (or specify the directory you copied FM StepUp's files into, 
    if other than FMSTEPUP).

    The resulting portion of the WINFILE.INI should look like 
    this:

        ...
        [AddOns]
        FM StepUp=C:\FMSTEPUP\FMSTEPUP.DLL
        ...

    (... means other lines of the file).  Save the file.  

5.  Run File Manager.

If the installation has been completed successfully, you should see
a new menu item, 'StepUp,' among the other items in the main menu of
the File Manager.  If you don't see the 'StepUp' entry in the main
menu of File Manager, an error has occurred.  Please verify that you
have done all the steps above and, in particular, you specified the
correct path in the [AddOns] section of the WINFILE.INI file.  Also,
make sure that the files have not been corrupted when they were
copied onto your hard disk.  (Each file should be the same size as
each file on the installation diskette)

To manually uninstall FM StepUp:

1.  Close File Manager and remove the line 'FM StepUp=...' from the
    WINFILE.INI file (using Notepad, for example).  After that, when
    you restart File Manager, FM StepUp will not be loaded.  If you
    decide later to start using FM StepUp again, enter the line
    'FMStepUp=...' specifying the complete DOS path to FMSTEPUP.DLL
    file, in the [AddOn] section of the WINFILE.INI file.

The following steps should be completed only if you wish to remove
FM StepUp from your system permanently:

2.  Delete all the files from the directory on your hard disk where
    you installed FM StepUp;

3.  Delete file FMSTEPUP.INI from the WINDOWS directory; 

4.  Delete program group 'FMStepUp' in the Program manager window, 
    if there is one.  

We hope you'll change your mind!  

2.3. A note about [Restrictions] for File Manager
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you're a System Administrator, you may find that FM StepUp gives
too much power to Windows users.  That's why we made FM StepUp able
to restrict itself.  With FM StepUp, you may also restrict a user's
access to some of the features of the File Manager in the same way
as Program Manager.

  NOTE: FM StepUp is not intended to provide a comprehensive set of
  [Restrictions] for File Manager.  A separate utility, FM Guard,
  specifically designed for this purpose, is available from
  WinAbility.Com.  FM Guard allows you to disable any command in File
  Manager, limit user access to any drive of your choice, prevent
  closing of File Manager, etc.  For more information about 'FM
  Guard,' please our web site.

To restrict FM StepUp, create a file, 'FMSTEPUP.SYS' in the
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, insert a [Restrictions] section in the
file and add desired Boolean entries listed below to it.

      Standard rules for specifying BOOLEAN entries of the WIN.INI
      and SYSTEM.INI files apply here: 1/ON/TRUE/YES may be used
      interchangeably to turn the mode on; 0/OFF/FALSE/NO - to turn
      it off.

      Note: the settings that affect standard dialog boxes (By File
      Type, Properties, Run, etc.) of File Manager require
      corresponding dialog boxes to be enabled through the
      'Preferences | Dialogs' command.

NoShowHiddenSysFiles=BOOLEAN
  disables the Show Hidden/System Files check box in the By File 
  Type dialog box so that users will be unable to see any files 
  you don't want them to; 

NoChangeFileAttrib=BOOLEAN  
  disables the Attributes group of the Properties dialog box and 
  prevents users from changing attributes of files, so that all 
  the files made hidden by you will remain hidden; 

NoChangeFileDateTime=BOOLEAN  
  disables OK button in the Change Date/Time dialog and prevents 
  users from modifying these file attributes; 

NoUninstallStepUp=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from uninstalling FM StepUp, i.e. if a user 
  modifies the WINFILE.INI and removes the 'FM StepUp=' entry, this
  entry will be added again by FM StepUp automatically when 
  exiting File Manager and FM StepUp will be loaded during the 
  next run of File Manager.

NoSaveStepUpSettings=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from saving the current settings of FM StepUp 
  on exit or on choosing File | Exit while the holding SHIFT key 
  down (undocumented 'Save Settings Now' command); 

NoCustomizeExecMenu=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from customizing the Execute Menu of FM StepUp; 

NoDialogs=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from using the Preferences | Dialogs command; 

NoCustomizeQuickMenu=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from customizing the Quick Menu of FM StepUp; 

NoChangeViewerEditor=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from changing the default viewer and editor 
  through the Preferences dialog box (so they won't be able to 
  run undesirable programs this way!); 

NoRunDOSprog=BOOLEAN  
  disables 'OK' button in the Run DOS Program dialog box and 
  prevents users from using this command.

NoExitWindows=BOOLEAN  
  prevents users from using commands Return To DOS, Restart 
  Windows, and Reboot System from StepUp|Special menu. This 
  does not prevent, though, from exiting Windows by other means, 
  via closing Program Manager, for instance.

NoRunScreenSaver=BOOLEAN  
  disables command StepUp | Special | Run Screen Saver.  

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//      3.  Acknowledgements
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I would like to thank Hale K. Darling for his valuable help in 
preparing the documentation for this utility.

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//      4. Obtaining the latest version of the software
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downloaded from our web site:

    http://www.winability.com/

An evaluation version may be converted into the licensed version 
by entering a valid registration code.

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