1. INTRODUCTION:    

    This is a demonstration version of AutoMate/PRO.  It will run AutoCAD 
    for 15 minutes before suspending digitizer input to AutoCAD.  You will
    be warned at about the 13 minute mark via a dialog box that you have 
    only several minutes left.  Upon completion of the demonstration, another
    dialog box will inform you that you do have keyboard control as a means  
    of exiting AutoCAD.

    This should be extracted into it's own directory so that you can easily 
    remove it later (for example c:\automate).

2.  QUICK INSTALL FOR AUTOCAD R12 USERS:
    
    If you have AutoCAD Release 12, you can begin running AutoMate/PRO by:
        
        - Copying VMIDEMO.EXE to its own directory. Ex. C:\AutoMate

        - Change to that directory and type VMIDEMO to extract files.

        - Adding the Automate directory to the ACADDRV environment variable,
          ie. SET ACADDRV=C:\Automate;C:\ACAD12\DRV (if ACAD12 is installed
          in root directory on C: called ACAD12).
        - Starting AutoCAD with acad -r
        - Selecting AutoMate/PRO ADI 4.2 from the configuration menu (choice 
          3 - video drivers to bring up list).

3. HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY:

   A. Computer - DOS-based 386 or 486 PC with 640K base memory plus a minimum
                 of 4-Megabytes Extended memory. More extended memory is
                 preferred especially for AutoCAD 12. If you are working with
                 large drawings (1 Meg or more) then we recommend that you
                 have a minimum of 8-Megabytes of Extended memory. You should
                 also have a minimum of 5-Megabytes of free disk space on 
                 the hard drive that you are using for AutoCAD swap files.

   B. Graphics Card - This version of AutoMate/PRO is compatible with the fol-
                      lowing types of Graphics Adapters:

          a. Tseng Labs ET4000 based Super VGA cards.
          b. S3 based Super VGA cards.
          c. ATI Ultra or Ultra/PRO
          d. Compaq QVision
          e. Video 7 VRAMII
          f. Standard IBM compatible VGA cards (640 x 480 resolution).
          g. 100% VESA compatible Super VGA cards (256 color modes only).
          h. 100% TIGA (Version 2.0 or greater) compatible graphics cards.

4. SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY:

     This demonstration version of AutoMate/PRO is compatible with the
     following Autodesk applications:

               A. AutoCAD 386 Release 10_c10
               B. AutoCAD 386 Release 11
               C. AutoCAD 386 Release 12
               D. AutoCAD 12's AVE-Render


5. INSTALLING AutoMate/PRO for DOS v8.10 demonstation version:

     To begin the AutoMate/PRO software installation:

        a. Copy VMIDEMO.EXE to its own directory. Ex. C:\AutoMate

        b. Change to that directory and type VMIDEMO to extract files.

        c. Next you will need to set environment variables used by AutoCAD.
           These settings may be stored in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or .BAT
           file used to start AutoCAD. Actual settings depend on the version
           of AutoCAD in use:

           Attention AutoCAD 12 users:
           ----------------------------
            The AutoCAD environment variable "ACADDRV" must be set (as
            shown in the example below) to tell AutoCAD 12 where to find the
            AutoMate/PRO Display/Rendering driver and the Digitizer and
            Plotter drivers.

                SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD12\DRV;C:\AUTOMATE

            CAUTION !!!!

              If you have multiple "SET ACADDRV" statements, the last one 
              executed will override any previous ones. 


           Attention AutoCAD 11 or AutoCAD 10_c10 users:
           ---------------------------------------------
            The AutoCAD environment variable "DSPADI" must be set (as
            shown in the example below) to tell AutoCAD the name of and 
            where to find the AutoMate/PRO Display driver.

                      SET DSPADI=C:\AUTOMATE\AUTOMATE.EXP

        d. After you have completed the installation, re-boot your system
           so that the changes in Autoexec.bat will take effect. If you are
           using a batch file (i.e. ACAD386 or ACADR12) to start AutoCAD make
           sure the batch file contains all the commands required for loading
           AutoMate/PRO.

        e. Start AutoCAD with the -r switch, to configure AutoCAD to use the
           AutoMATE/PRO for DOS v8.10 ADI 4.2 driver. Select AutoMate/PRO -
           4.2 display/rendering driver from the list of choices in the video
           driver menu.