MAS Program Library

   The obviously unrealistic assumption is that you have brought formatted
disks and have read the abstracts and have decided which program(s) you want.

   The MAS Library is constructed so that 1.44mb 3 1/2", 1.2mb 5 1/4", 720kb
3 1/2" or 360kb 5 1/4" floppy disks can be used.  3 1/2" disks are preferred
since the IBM computers tend to come with that size disks.  If 5 1/4" drives
are not available you will have to provide formatted 3 1/2" disks.  The menu
indicates the size of the program and the number of disks required.

PLEASE *** DO NOT *** UNCOMPRESS ANY FILES - YOU SPOIL THINGS FOR OTHERS   
   
   The copying of programs is done by a series of batch files which use XCOPY
to copy PKZIP compressed files to a floppy drive designated by "d:", where d:
is the letter of the DRIVE COPIED TO.

   XCOPY does not split files across disks.  XCOPY will give a message that 
the disk is full and the batch file will ask you to insert a new formatted 
disk and will continue with the copy until it is complete.  If the program 
you want to copy requires 5 disks you will have to have five formatted disks.  
If some space remains you can try to put another program on the same disk.  
This will not erase the existing programs already on disk. Afterwards you can 
examine your disks with DIR or CHKDSK to see how much room remains on them.
 
   To uncompress the files, which are in the form FILENAME.EXE, just type
FILENAME<enter> and the files will be extracted.  Make certain you have enough
disk space (blank disk or hard disk) as uncompressed files take anywhere from
2 to 10 times the space that compressed files do.  A better scheme is to use
XCOPY to put the program on your hard disk in an appropriate directory.  For
example XCOPY a:\*.* c: /S will create a directory on your drive c: which is
the same directory used on drive a: (generally the program name) and will put
into it the self extracting file(s) stored on drive a:.  For example, if you
have copied CITZAF3 onto 2 360kb disks XCOPY a:\*.* c: /S will create the
following structure when you have run it on each disk in drive a:.
	      Note: This is in the root directory of C:       
			C:\CITZAF3\CITZAF1.EXE
			C:\CITZAF3\CITZAF2.EXE
			C:\CITZAF3\CITZAF3.EXE
			C:\CITZAF3\CITZAFV3.ABS

   Another approach is to use XCOPY a:\*.* c:\maslib /S
This will create a MASLIB subdirectory on your hard drive c: and a structure
			C:\MASLIB\CITZAF3\CITZAF1.EXE
			C:\MASLIB\CITZAF3\CITZAF2.EXE
			C:\MASLIB\CITZAF3\CITZAF3.EXE
			C:\MASLIB\CITZAF3\CITZAFV3.ABS
You can then uncompress the files in the hard disk directory you want and then
erase the self extracting file afterwards.