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Release notes for the Microsoft Office (tm) Document Compressor Kit

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1996
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NOTE
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Please read the license agreement for this product. It is in the license.txt
file.

DESCRIPTION
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The Microsoft Office Document Compressor Kit is a freely distributable
utility package that allows you to build self-extracting program files
(self-exe's) containing one or more compressed Office (tm) documents.
The self-exe's will be much smaller than the uncompressed documents,
especially if they contain a number of graphics. When a self-exe is run on a
user's machine from a local or network drive, it will extract the document(s)
to the temp directory in the sequence that they were compressed. It will then
load the first document into the appropriate application. For example, if the
first document extracted is an Access (tm) database, it will be loaded  into
Access. If there is only one document, it will be deleted from the temp
directory when user exits the application. If there are other documents,
the user will have to open and delete them manually.

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
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The self-exe's created with the Document Compressor Kit will run on
Windows (tm) 3.x, Windows for Workgroups 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT
3.1 and above. However, the Compressor Kit does NOT support documents with long 
file names. 

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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(1)  Create a directory for the Compressor Kit files on your hard drive
 
(2)  Move the files listed below to the directory
	makeexe.bat
        cabinet.ddf
        diamond.exe      
        unpack.exe

(3) Delete dcompkit.exe

BUILDING A SELF-EXE
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(1)  Open cabinet.ddf in Notepad or another text editor.
  
(2)  Add the full paths and filenames for the documents to compress on
individual lines below the comment ";Add your files here". If any of the
documents have long file names, you will need to copy/rename them to 8.3
short filenames before adding them to cabinet.ddf.
 
(3)  makeexe.bat will create a self-exe called selfext.exe in the Compressor
Kit directory by default. To change the path and filename of the self-exe,
open the .bat file in a text editor and substitute the desired path and
filename in the line below the comment "Rem change selfext.exe...".
	
(4)  Create the self-exe by running makeexe.bat from File Manager, the
Windows Explorer or the Command Prompt.