As our native language is German, there are without doubt numerous mistakes in grammar in this text and/or in the help texts of INSIDE. But if you don't understand German but English, an English documentation with some typos and worse style should be more useful for you than only the German one. The program itself was written in English, because most computer users understand English, many terms are much shorter in English than in German, and most computer-related terms are English.
I tried to avoid the use of too much technical terms in this text, in some parts there are explanations for real beginners.
You should read this text with an actual browser (Netscape 3.0+, MS Internet Explorer 3.0+), because otherwise e.g. tables are not displayed correctly. The documentation was designed for a screen resolution of at least 640x480 pixels. With 11 point fonts (Times New Roman and Courier New), the documentation can be displayed in full width in the Netscape Navigator 4.01. We could not respect smaller resolutions and/or larger fonts. If you can't get on well with 11 point fonts and 640x480 resolution, you must accept a horizontal scroll bar.
You use INSIDE on your OWN RISK !!!
INSIDE is a very complex diagnostic program, that can cause damage if it is used improperly. Therefore read this documentation very carefully, even if it seems to hard to you because of the length of this file. If you are not sure whether a test can cause damage or not, do not execute it respectively disable it. Read Chapter 3.2., "INSIDE.INI file", for how to disable or enable specific tests. If your computer behaves strange or hangs, switch it off and on again or execute a cold boot (push the reset switch or switch the computer off and on again, do not press [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Del]).
If the computer hangs during initialisation of INSIDE, you can most times read a hint how to solve this problem in the last line of the screen.
The usage of INSIDE is very easy although the program is very complex. The few keys that you need to operate INSIDE can be read on the title page, help texts for the particular pages can be called of by pressing the [F1] key.
Although this documentation was written by Hendrik Foken, terms like "I" and "Me" relate to Alexander Foken the programmer of INSIDE. Terms like "We" relate to Alexander and Hendrik Foken.
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Documentation: Copyright © 1997 by Hendrik Foken
Program:
Copyright © 1997 by Alexander Foken