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iNpUTer V.0,02.
Copyright 1996-1997 Jon Wickmann
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

YOU HAVE TO READ THIS

I wrote this software therefore I have all the rights to this software,
I do not give away this software or any rights to it. However, I grant
you the right to use this software if you accept all the conditions in
this documentation and in the file 'support.me'.

Disclaimer -- NO WARRANTY

This software is distributed "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, either expressed or implied. Without ANY warranties
of merchantability or fitness for ANY particular purpose. 
The user (YOU) ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK of using this software.

IN NO EVENT SHALL Jon Wickmann BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
CAUSED BY using THIS SOFTWARE.

Licence

This software is FreeWare for private users (You do not have to pay).
People that earn money by using this software (business, governmental,
professionals) have to pay (mail me and we will make a deal).

IMPORTANT!! Under no circumstances may You or any one else try to 
disassemble, uncompile or reverseengineer this software in any way, 
to gain any knowledge of the way this software works.
If You want to know how my software did something send a mail 
and I'll see what I can do.

If you would like to distribute this software on CD-ROM, BBS, floppies
or any other mediae please mail me with a pointer to where it is distributed
from (e.g. BBS name and number). IMPORTANT NOTE!! If you distribute
this software you may not charge any more than the cost of distributing this
software. What you can charge for is the medium it is distributed on and the
maintenance of your archive. If you have been charged for more than this
please mail me and tell me about it.

Contact information

You can reach me by email at: wickmann@sn.no
By web: http://home.sn.no/~wickmann/inputer.html

But please remember that I plan to move
to an other ISP around 5th of May (1997).
However I have a backup email account at wickmann@hotmail.com
An accurate link to my homepage can always be found at
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/wickmann/index.html

What does it do?

Well it can either catch key-presses and return them as exit codes.
Or it can build menus where the user selects a menu witch then are
returned as an exit code.
The main usage would be in a batch file where it would be used to get 
input from the user and put it in exit codes that a batch file could 
use to decide what to do.

How to make it do what it can?

The switches

You can use both slashes (/) and minuses (-) before the commands.

Key Input
To get input from the key-presses (like MS-DOS's 'choice') then 
simply issue the command inputer /i.
The key-pressed will be returned as an exit code. A=1 B=2 and so forth.

Menu Input
If You would like iNpUTer to take input trough a menu then the
command line should be inputer /m x y item1 item2
Where x and y is the screen coordinates for the upper left corner
of the menu, following comes the items. The items are separated with a
space. If you would like to have a space between two words on one line
you could use the ALT-key + 255.

To make iNpUTer silent use /s. 
E.g. inputer /si
To get my email address you issue the command inputer /c.
If you need help then just inputer /h.

The magic it can do in a batch file

If You would like a batch file to do something when the user has touch 
a key, You could use a batch file similarly  to this below:

- - ----cut--
@echo off
Echo Give me Your Input
inputer /si
IF ERRORLEVEL = 3 GOTO ccc
IF ERRORLEVEL = 2 GOTO bbb
IF ERRORLEVEL = 1 GOTO aaa
GOTO END
:aaa
rem Whatever You wish to do when A is pressed
GOTO END
:bbb
rem Whatever You wish to do when B is pressed
GOTO END
:ccc
rem Whatever You wish to do when C is pressed
GOTO END
:END
- - ----cut--

If You would like a batch file to build a menu to get input
then make a batch file like the following:

- - ----cut--
@echo off
CLS
rem It is important to clear the screen first
rem Cause iNpUTer does not do that its self.
ECHO Do You want Coffee, Tea or Water?
inputer /m 10 10 Coffee Tea Water
IF ERRORLEVEL = 3 GOTO ccc
IF ERRORLEVEL = 2 GOTO bbb
IF ERRORLEVEL = 1 GOTO aaa
GOTO END
:aaa
rem Whatever You wish to do when the user has selected Coffee
GOTO END
:bbb
rem Whatever You wish to do when the user has selected Tea
GOTO END
:ccc
rem Whatever You wish to do when the user has selected Water
GOTO END
:END
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It did not work?

It is not so very much I can do with that. Maybe you had some 
Antivirus utile running that blocked iNpUTer or maybe some
other security utile on your system, if you encounter this more
than once, please mail me and tell about it. 

Note !! iNpUTer will give the exit code 255 on an error.

What does it mean that this file is PGP signed?

I have signed this file and inputer.com (inputer.sig) with my PGP
signature, so that You have the opportunity to check wherever
some one has changed these files before you got them. Please report
by mail to me if they where. You can get my PGP public key
from my web page and public key servers.

Comments, Improvements

If you have some mail them to me.



Copyright 1996-1997 Jon Wickmann
Brands and product names mentioned above and in iNpUTer V.0,02.
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.


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