Freeman Installer & Uninstaller for NT v1.50 Copyright (C) 1994 Freeman-Teresa Software All Rights Reserved Introduction ============ - Automatically install your NT applications onto your users' system. - Native NT Win32 installer built (almost) from the ground up. - Optional automatical uninstall. You just install one more file and your users just have one more program item. - Changes made to the users' system will be logged and will be displayed in the uninstaller. - NT Registry support. - NT file security limited support. - Selective install. Your users can choose which part to install. - File version checking. - Optionally execute external programs. - 3D dialogs and controls (ctl3d32.dll). - GUI interface letting you specify your installation with just point'n'click. No more script writing. - Displays dialog boxes while copying files. Bitmaps can be used as ordinary controls in those dialogs. - INI entry setting. - Usual stuff like file compress/decompress, program item creation. - Optionally generates C++ source code to compile and link to get an integrated and customized EXE, minimizing the size of the installer. You can also customize the code by simply editing the generated C++ file, no more DLLs! - Four step-by-step tutorials are included. Lots of screen shots leading you through every procedure. I promise when you finish with those tutorials, you will be ready to work on your real installation. - Common Q&A for trouble shooting. The tutorials are high recommended. They will get you up and running in no time. They take up some space though, you can delete them when you are done. Installation Procedures ======================= 1. Create a temporary directory on your hard disk, i.e., md temp 2. unzip finst15.zip to that direcotry, i.e., cd temp pkunzip a:finst15 3. run install.exe, i.e., install Requirements ============ This software requires Windows NT 3.5 or later. It is untested on NT 3.1 Author ====== Kent Tong Mail Box 20 Wentworth Building University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Internet email: tongk@arch.su.edu.au CompuServe email: 100351,3364 ph & fax: (61) (2) 2116314