; ; $Revision: 1.6 $ ; $Date: 10 Nov 1988 16:38:50 $ ; ; ************************************************************************** ; * Copyright (C) 1988 by Phoenix Technologies Ltd. This program ; * contains proprietary and confidential information. All rights reserved ; * except as may be permitted by prior written consent. ; ************************************************************************** ; HELP.MSG ; These messages are used by the PRD menu help system. The format is: ; $ XX "yyy" ; Where XX represents the message number and yyy is the help text. The $ must ; always precede the number and be followed by a space. In addition the ; text is always delimited by quotes so embedded are not permitted. ; ------------------------------------------------------ ; Index to help numbers ; ; Opening Screen 1 ; ; Configuration 2 ; Install 7 ; Automatic 8 ; Confirm AC 40 ; View 9 ; Change 10 ; Backup 11 ; Restore 12 ; ; Disk Utilities 4 ; Backup PRD Disk 13 ; Park Head 16 ; Disk Cache 14 ; Install 17 ; View 18 ; Change 19 ; Low Level Format 15 ; ; Feature Control 5 ; Date and Time 20 ; Passwords 21 ; Set Power-on 27 ; Change Power-on 28 ; Remove Power-on 29 ; Keyboard 30 ; Installation 33 ; Usage 34 ; Network 31 ; Keyboard Speed 22 ; ; ------------------------------------------------------ $ 1 "The Phoenix Reference Diskette (PRD) is composed of menus that help you configure your computer, use the disk utilities, and set the time, date, and system passwords. PRD divides these menus into three groups, each with a different purpose:   Configuration - Contains menus to add or change the adapter board CMOS settings, to save and restore CMOS memory, and to automatically configure all the CMOS settings.   Disk Utilities - Contains menus to backup the PRD diskette, to park the fixed disk head, to install and maintain the disk caching utility, and to perform a low-level format on the fixed disk.   Feature Control - Contains menus to set the system date and time, set the power-on and network passwords, and change the keyboard speed between fast and normal." $ 2 "Configuration informs your computer about the adapter cards installed in your system. The information about the adapter cards and their settings are saved in CMOS, and then used to initialize the cards when the computer is turned on. By configuring the system, you allow your computer to recognize and use the adapter cards properly.  Configuration gets the information about the adapter cards and all their possible settings from an Adapter Description File (ADF). The original PRD diskette already contains ADFs for some of the more common adapter cards, but new adapter cards will have to have their ADFs copied to the PRD diskette before they can be used properly by your computer. To copy these new ADFs, just select Install from the Configuration Menu and follow the prompts.  PRD can also perform an Automatic Configuration for all the adapter cards in the computer. This will change CMOS (using each adapter cards ADF) to the first non-conflicting setting for each adapter card. This allows the computer to use many complex and possibly conflicting adapter cards. If an ADF is missing for an adapter card in the computer, Automatic Configuration will give a warnings message and configure the remaining adapter cards.  You can also just View the settings of all the adapter cards or Change those settings and then save them to CMOS.  Selecting Configuration on the MAIN MENU and pressing ENTER takes you to the Configuration Menu. " $ 4 "The Phoenix Reference Diskette (PRD) Disk Utilities contains four menus:   Backup - Makes a backup copy of the PRD diskette.  Disk Cache - Installs and maintains a disk optimization utility.  Park Head - Parks the fixed disk head for transportation.  Low Level Format - Isolates defective areas on the fixed disk.  Selecting Disk Utilities on the MAIN MENU and pressing ENTER takes you to the Disk Utilities Menu. " $ 5 "The Feature Control section contains three menus:   Date and Time - Changes the system Date and Time .  Passwords - Installs and maintains the system passwords.  Keyboard Speed - Changes the keyboard speed between Normal and Fast.  Selecting Feature Control on the MAIN MENU and pressing ENTER takes you to the Feature Control Menu. " $ 7 "PRD will issue a warning if an new adapter card is installed in the system and it has no Adapter Description File (ADF) for this card. Use the Install option to update PRD with the ADF from the diskette supplied by the adapter card manufacturer." $ 8 "When you select the Automatic option, PRD will set the adapter cards along with the system board to the first functional configuration.  This is done by setting all the adapter cards to their default configurations (as described in their Adapter Description Files) and automatically resolving any conflicts that arise.  Automatic configuration then saves all the configuration settings in CMOS RAM so that the next time the computer is started these configurations will be used to initialize the adapter cards to the new configuration settings." $ 9 "The View option allows you to look at (but not change) all current configuration settings for your computer. Each expansion slot number is listed, and the name of the adapter card that occupies that slot is listed also. If the slot is not used, EMPTY is displayed next to the slot number. The configuration settings are shown for each occupied slot. If there is a conflict between two or more configuration settings, an asterisk denotes the conflicting settings." $ 10 "The Change option is used to manually change conflicting switch settings for adapter cards. Conflicting switch settings will be indicated by an asterisk." $ 11 "Use the Backup option to copy your current configuration settings to your PRD diskette, so you will always have a copy of these settings in case your computer's battery stops working and CMOS RAM is corrupted. You should always back up configuration settings every time you change your computer's configuration. Note that Backup will not save the Date or Time from CMOS RAM, nor will it save the current Power-on Password." $ 12 "The Restore option restores the configuration in CMOS to the most recent configuration saved with the Backup option. If you plan on replacing the CMOS battery (which would lose the configuration stored in CMOS) use the Configuration Backup option to save the configuration to disk. After replacing the battery use the Configuration Restore option to restore the configuration to its original condition. Note that Restore will not restore the Date or Time, nor will it restore a Power-on Password." $ 13 " Use this option to make a backup copy of the Phoenix Reference Diskette (PRD). If you have installed PRD already, then you will have a backup copy from the installation process. If you wish to make an additional copy of PRD then use this option to copy PRD to another disk. Remember every time you install a new Adapter card with the 'Configuration - Install' option, your current PRD disk gets updated, and will be different from your last backup copy. It would be prudent at that point to update the backup copy of PRD." $ 14 "Use the disk caching utility to speed up your computer if your use of the computer includes a lot of fixed disk access. The PRD disk cache utility program allows you to set aside part of the computer's RAM (random-access memory) as a buffer for fixed disk I/O. Since RAM access is much faster than fixed disk I/O, having some of the most commonly-used fixed disk data in memory will speed up your computer applications. The computer need only read that data from memory rather than from the fixed disk itself. You will probably have to try several different settings of the Main Memory Cache Size and Least Frequently Used Depth parameters to optimize disk caching performance. In general, the larger the disk cache, the more fixed disk data can be stored in memory; the larger the Least Frequently Used Depth, the more fixed disk sectors can be swapped in and out of memory. However, the more disk caching RAM you specify, the less RAM is available for your applications. The larger the value in the Least Frequently Used Depth parameter, the more fixed disk I/O you allow. Too large a value negates any performance gain that disk caching brings." $ 15 "Low Level Format destroys all data on your fixed disk. Use this utility only when initially configuring your computer, when replacing a fixed disk, or if you are absolutely sure that the data on the fixed disk has been corrupted. Be sure to backup the fixed disk before using this utility." $ 16 "Use the Park Head utility program to move the fixed disk heads to a safe storage position within the fixed disk drive. Use this utility before you move your computer, even when moving the computer a foot on your desk. After using this utility, turn off the computer and move it. Turning the computer on will automatically unpark the fixed disk heads." $ 17 "The Install option copies the disk cache utility programs from the Phoenix Reference Diskette (PRD) to the fixed disk. Answer Y to the questions on installing cache.com on C:\ and writing the Cache installation command to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Select at least 64k for the Main memory cache size, and 0 for the extended and expanded memory cache sizes. These are the default values." $ 18 "The View option allows you to look at (but not change) the disk cache utility settings." $ 19 "The Change option allows you to modify any of the disk cache utility settings. Move the cursor to the appropriate line and type in the new value." $ 20 "The Date and Time option allows you to enter the date and/ or time. Set the date and time when you initially configure your computer, when you change the battery, or when CMOS RAM fails. To set the date: Enter the date in MM-DD-YY format and press ENTER. To set the time, enter the time in HH:MM:SS format and press ENTER. The default time setting is a 24-hour clock." $ 21 " Passwords allow you to limit access to your computer. Three types of passwords may be set:  1. Power-on password: If a power-on password is set, you must enter the correct password every time the computer is turned on.  2. Keyboard password: If a keyboard password is set, the keyboard and mouse will not be available until you type in the correct password.  3. Network Server Mode: Not a password, it is either active or not active. If active, others can access information on your computer in a network environment if you have correctly typed in the power-on password.  The default setting is no passwords. If a power-on password is typed in, the same password is the default keyboard password." $ 22 "Keyboard speed refers to two factors:  how quickly a key is repeated when pressed and held down, and how quickly a keystroke is recorded and echoed to the screen. There are two keyboard speeds: NORMAL (the default setting) and FAST." $ 27 "When the power-on password feature is activated, you must enter the correct power-on password every time you turn on the computer.  The power-on password can be from 1-7 characters; any keyboard character is valid and either upper or lower-case characters, in any combination, are valid.  Your computer interprets passwords very strictly; exactly the same keys must be pressed in exactly the same order. l (lowercase L) cannot be substituted for 1; the 2 on the numeric keypad is NOT the same as the 2 on the top row of the keyboard.  Be careful not to make any typos when entering your password, since the password is not echoed to the screen. Use the backspace key if you do make a mistake.  Verify that the password is correct by typing a Y at the next prompt." $ 28 "You can change the power-on password at the power-on password prompt. Type the old password followed by a slash, then the 1-7 characters of the new password, then press ENTER.  Type the new password in carefully; it is not echoed to the screen and you cannot see if you made a mistake." $ 29 "The power-on password can be removed at the power-on password prompt. At the power-on password prompt, type in the old password followed by a slash, and press ENTER." $ 30 "When the keyboard password is activated, your computer will not process input from the keyboard or mouse until the keyboard password is typed in.  The power-on password is the default keyboard password until you change the keyboard password.  To install the keyboard password program, select the Keyboard option and then select the 'Installation' option from the Keyboard Menu. Enter the specified drive and path name, and press ENTER.  To activate the keyboard password, type 'kp' and press ENTER while at the DOS prompt. If there is no power-on password installed, or if you type 'kp/c', you are next prompted for a keyboard password, which must be 1-7 characters.  To activate the keyboard password and blank the screen, type 'kp/b'.  To deactivate the keyboard password, type in your keyboard password, or simply turn off your computer. The keyboard password is lost each time the computer is turned off." $ 31 "Network Server Mode allows your computer to be accessed by other computers in a network environment. To activate Network Server Mode, select 'Network', type 'Y', and press ENTER." $ 33 "You must install the keyboard password program (kp.exe) on your computer's fixed disk before you can use the keyboard password. To install kp.exe, select the Installation option on this menu. Type in the drive and path name where you want the keyboard password program to reside, and press ENTER." $ 34 "Select the Usage option from this menu to get a description of how the keyboard password works." $ 35 " Non-standard Fixed Disk drives can be supported by entering specific information about the drives physical characteristics. This information is saved in extended CMOS for the BIOS to use the next time the system boots. Only ST506 adapters (not ESDI adapters) can be supported with these non-standard drive parameters. " $ 40 "If you allow PRD to execute the configuration process for you, PRD will automatically resolve any conflicts in the switch settings for the various adapter cards in your system, and will automatically generate an appropriate system configuration for your computer. "