INTRODUCTION TO THE TURBO PASCAL TUTOR.
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This software has been prepared to help in the presentation of Turbo
Pascal training courses and is now made available as shareware. Please
freely distribute to friends and colleagues.
If however you do use the programs to advantage, please send a donation
of œ5 to one of the following charities:

       Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
       OXFAM.
       Guide Dogs for the Blind.
       Arthritis Research Council.

A letter, fully addressed to the selected charity, will be created
directly on your printer from the DOS prompt by typing A:REGISTER and
pressing the ENTER key. You will then be asked to provide your name,
organisation name and address and to select the charity. Please send a
copy to the author of the programs and any comments, both critical and
favourable, in order that improvements can be made to the presentation.
If requiring an acknowledgement or answers to qestions, please send a
stamped addressed envelope.


The author's name and address are:     R Shaw
                                       Shaw Software
                                       56a Maidenhead Road
                                       Stratford-upon-Avon
                                       Warwickshire
                                       CV37 6XT     (telephone 0789 295150)

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The hardware requirements are any IBM PC compatible machine from XT
upwards, with 640kb memory and a VGA colour monitor.


There are 92 files on this diskette, which is labelled PASCALTUTOR.

86 of these files are in the subdirectory \TP\TUTOR and relate to the
display of Turbo Pascal tutorial notes and example programs using the
object-oriented code of Turbo Vision. The example programs can also be
run from the Run examples submenu. The screen display can be adjusted
using the Windows submenu and mouse and colour options can be set using
the Options submenu.


The Notes are in files with the extension name .TXT, whilst the examples
are available as both source code (.PAS) and executable files (.EXE).
The main program that controls the display is TUTOR.EXE and so the command
is just TUTOR if the correct subdirectory has already been selected.

There are 6 files in the root directory of this diskette:

The README file is this one being read, by the batch file INTRO.BAT

The DOS file CONFIG.SYS is provided to allow a meaningful operation of the
program DOSOPS.PAS if run from drive A:

The batch file RUN.BAT allows operation directly from the diskette drive A:
by typing A:RUN and pressing the ENTER key.

The batch file INST.BAT transfers all the files in the A:\TP\TUTOR
subdirectory to the hard disk drive C: in the subdirectory C:\TP\TUTOR
which is first created by the batch file. The command is A:INST followed by
the ENTER key.

The executable file REGISTER.EXE creates a letter to a selected charity.


The tutorial runs in Turbo Vision, which provides an environment similar
to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of Turbo Pascal. Readers
who are not familiar with the IDE should run the program TPTOUR.EXE which
is provided by Borland on the Turbo Pascal diskettes.

The initial screen display shows a Menu Bar at the top of the screen and
a Status Line at the bottom. The Status Line always provides essential
advice, typically that the function key F10 will access the Menu. Then
the arrow keys can be used to select the required menu item and the
sub-menu pulled down by pressing the ENTER key. The arrow keys can again
be used to select the required sub-menu option and that option activated
by pressing the ENTER key. The function key F1 always provides context
sensitive help, including any hot-key short cuts.
The hot-key combination Alt-X will immediately cause an exit to DOS.



README.  Revised 17.5.93