ROCKBASE Plus: Version 2.00

Thank you for purchasing RockBase Plus, we hope and trust that you will find
it easy, fun and useful. The program has been developed over a period of two
and a half years and at the time of going to press we know of no problems
however, in common with most other software developers, Cravenplan Computers
Limited can accept no responsibility for any bugs or other problems caused
by the use of this program. If you find any problems or if you have any
suggestions for improvements please call Chris Stanbury on 01895 444603.

Alternatively please fax your suggestions/problems on 01895 449599

We strongly suggest you view the help screen "Quick Introduction" (it only
takes a minute), this will give you a lot of useful tips on getting the best
from RockBase Plus.

The Name and Address information asked for on installation is used only to
save writing your details on the corrections sheets which you may wish to
send to Terry Hounsome in order to add to the data. The only Mandatory fields
are Name and Phone Number, if you object to giving these then feel free to
enter a false name and number. Please return the registration card to
Cravenplan Computers Limited, it costs nothing and will enable us to keep
you informed about special offers on new releases etc.

The program and any VBX's or DLL's required are all loaded into the Rockbase
Directory. To remove RockBase Plus from your system all you need to do is
remove this directory. The only exception to this rule is a small amendment
to the file VB.INI in the windows directory. If you are not running Visual
Basic this file will be added for you when RockBase Plus is installed and
can be deleted if you remove RockBase Plus from your system.




Installation:

Installation other the the minimum option, will create directories as follows,
and put the following files onto your hard disk.

Assuming you choose C:\ROCKBASE as your install directory, 

C:
|
|_____ROCKBASE
|     |___DATA
|         |___FULL     (Serious User installation Only)
|     
|
|_____WINDOWS
|
      Etc



In C:\ROCKBASE
        CLST.RPT
        CMDIALOG.VBX
        COMMDLG.DLL
        CRPE.DLL
        CRYSTAL.VBX
        CRXLATE.DLL
        CTL3D.DLL
        GAUGE.VBX
        INTRO.WAV
        MAIN.RPT
        MMSYSTEM.DLL
        MSAFINX.DLLP
        MSABC200.DLL
        MSAES110.DLL
        MSAJT112.DLL
        MSAJT200.DLL
        PDBJET.DLL
        PDCTJET.DLL
        PDIRJET.DLL
        RBADD.DAT
        README.TXT    (This file)
        ROCKBASE.EXE
        ROCKBASE.HLP
        SSDATA2.VBX
        THREED.VBX
        TRACKS.RPT
        TRUEGRID.VBX
        VBASM.DLL
        VBDB300.DLL
        VBRUN300.DLL

C:\ROCKBASE\DATA\FULL   (Serious User installation Only)
        ROCKBASE.MDB
        ROCKBASE.MDA
        ROCKMAIN.LDB
        ROCKMAIN.MDB

C:\WINDOWS
        ROCKBASE.INI
        VB.INI




Removing RockBase Plus:

Files are installed as above for your convenience, so that to delete the
complete RockBase Plus installation, you need only remove the ROCKBASE
directory and it's sub-directories, plus contents. If you have limited
disk space, you may at your own risk, if you identify duplicate files
(likely to be .VBX or .DLL files)(name, size and date) in \ROCKBASE and
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, remove the duplicates from \ROCKBASE, NOT from
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.  This is the only method recommended; if you remove one 
file too many, and RockBase Plus fails to operate, you can then re-install 
RockBase Plus.  We take no responsibility for any errors that you make 
deleting files from ANY OTHER DIRECTORY.




SHARE.EXE:

It is necessary to install SHARE.EXE or it's equivalent (see below) in
your AUTOEXEC.BAT for database access to work.  RockBase Plus installation
will install this for you, if it cannot find it in your AUTOEXEC file. If it
carries out the installation, you will need to reboot your computer to 
make it effective.  Since the installation does not know where SHARE.EXE
resides on your computer, it places SHARE.EXE after any PATH command, in
the expectation that PATH will allow SHARE to come from a directory 
in your PATH eg C:\DOS or similar.  

If by chance SHARE.EXE is not found on re-boot, you will need to modify 
the AUTOEXEC.BAT entry to for example C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE /L:500, including 
the full path as it actually is.

If your AUTOEXEC.BAT has been amended, the older version will have been 
saved as AUTOEXEC.RB.  Hence if you have any problems after installation,
please compare these files.

On newer versions of Windows (3.11), and on Windows 3.1, if you are 
running in 386 enhanced mode, you may have VSHARE.386 in place which
fulfills the function of SHARE.EXE and makes it redundant.  If you 
are SURE that this is the case you can remove SHARE.EXE from your
AUTOEXEC.BAT.


VB.INI:

You will see that the RockBase Plus installation will install a very small
file called VB.INI in your WINDOWS directory.  This is necessary for some
of the printing options to function.

If you are a Visual Basic user, and have this file already, it may have 
added a small entry to your existing file.  In that case it will have saved
the existing file as VB.RB for you to refer to.  Only if you are a Visual
Basic programmer, who is programming with Databases, may you have had an
existing entry with possible conflict.  In that case, you will have seen a
warning issued by RockBase Plus during installation. If you change the
SytsemDB entry from the entry made by Rockbase, you will need to restore
the RockBase entry for RockBase to work. We assume that if you need this 
information, and need to act on it, that you are an experienced programmer, 
and are able to edit the VB.INI file for yourself.  Alternatively,
re-installing RockBase Plus will restore VB.INI to the status required.