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<Chapter 12:  Installation>
     Before you can run ORCHIS, you need to answer two questions about
your hardware configuration:

     1. What kind of a printer do you have and
     2. How does your computer send data to your printer?

To supply this information to ORCHIS, run the installation utility,
INSTALL.EXE. INSTALL is a simple, menu-driven program, and you should have
no difficulty in using it.

     If you have a hard disk, begin by making a directory for ORCHIS and
copying the contents of your ORCHIS disk into that directory. Then run
INSTALL. If you do not have a hard disk, you can run INSTALL on a diskette
drive. In that case, you should start by making a backup copy of your
ORCHIS disk.

     When you start up INSTALL, you are presented with a short series of
menus. Each menu item begins with a digit. Type the digit of the item you
want to select, and the next menu appears. At any point, you can use the
escape key to cancel the last choice and return to a prior menu. When you
have finished specifying your hardware configuration, INSTALL displays the
choices that you have made and gives you the option of installing those
choices or restarting from the beginning. Later, if you change your
hardware configuration, you can just run INSTALL again. Then you will be
able to use ORCHIS with the new configuration.

     After installing ORCHIS, you will probably want to add the ORCHIS
directory to your DOS path. (Running INSTALL does not change your
CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files). Putting ORCHIS in your DOS path makes
it more convenient to keep org chart data files in directories other than
the ORCHIS home directory.

<Section 12.1:  What kind of a printer do you have?>
     ORCHIS supports six kinds of printer: the IBM graphics printer, the
IBM color printer, the Epson printers (FX80 or later), Postscript printers
(such as the Apple LaserWriter), the HP LaserJet, and the HP DeskJet (and
any printer compatible with one of these).

     If you specify an Epson printer, you have an additional choice. There
are two types of Epson printer: 9 pin and 24 pin. The 24 pin printers
offer higher resolution and faster printing speed. If you choose the 24
pin option, ORCHIS will print at 180 dots per inch resolution. If you
choose the 9 pin option, ORCHIS will print at 144 by 120 dots per inch
resolution. If you have a 24 pin printer, you should select the 24 pin
installation option. (However, you may select the 9 pin option if, for
some reason, you wish to print at the lower resolution.) If you have a 9
pin printer, you must choose the 9 pin option.

     If you specify a Postscript printer, you also have an additional
choice. You need to choose whether to produce color output or black and
white output. Black and white Postscript printers will render colors as
various shades of gray using halftone screens. This is seldom desirable
when printing org charts. If you choose the black and white option here,
the color information is removed before the chart is sent to the printer
so that the entire chart will be printed in solid black. If you use color
in your charts for display purposes, but want to print them in black and
white, you can choose the black and white option here even if you have a
color printer.

<Section 12.2:  How does your computer communicate with your printer?>
     If your printer is connected directly to your computer by either a
parallel or a serial port, specify which port is used. ORCHIS will send
printer data directly to that port, bypassing DOS for maximum printer
speed. Alternatively, you can choose to output via DOS to the printer
device, PRN. You can also choose to capture printer data to a file. If you
choose this option, each time you print from ORCHIS, the print data will
be turned into a file named PRINTER.OUT. You can later copy this file to
your printer.