Nesting "Groups" in HDM

For those who may be using Harry Konstas' HDM DOS program launcher, here's a tip to help you organize all the icons. Simply put, use one icon to "HDM-launch" a copy of HDM that contains a group of icons. The effect is similar to creating a folder on Win9x/NT's desktop and putting a lot of the other desktop icons in the folder: it reduces "eye clutter" and brings some order to the chaos. For example, you could have an icon for Card Games that would take you to another screen of card games. Pressing Esc on the Card Games screen brings you back to the main menu screen. The HDM program does take up a little extra memory space each time it is loaded--about 5K bytes on average. This means that you should be careful when running memory hungry programs from a second or third level HDM menu. There may not be enough memory left to run the programs.

Chris Randle , chris@AMLOG.DEMON.CO.UK