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- | How To Install? Mon Nov 2 22:03:14 1992 |
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- Installation for AmigaDOS 2.0 or 3.0
- ------------------------------------
-
- If you have a harddisk (and about 3 megabytes free) the easiest way to
- install PowerVisor is to make a subdirectory named 'PowerVisor' and
- extract the PowerVisor archive in that subdirectory. After that
- double click on the 'InstallPV' icon and installation (with many
- confirm options) will start (in another subdirectory). After
- installation simply remove the 'PowerVisor' subdirectory. (Note
- that you must have the 'Installer' program (© Commodore) to use
- the 'InstallPV' script. If you don't have this program you must use
- the manual installation method described below).
-
- If you don't have a harddisk or you don't have enough free harddisk
- space, but you do have a lot of memory you can also make the
- 'PowerVisor' subdirectory on your RAM: disk and repeat the above
- procedure.
-
- If you don't have a harddisk and you don't have enough memory you
- can make use of the fact that the 'Docs' and 'PVDevelop' subdirectories
- need not be on the same disk or volume as the rest of the PowerVisor
- archive. You can easily put 'Docs', 'PVDevelop' or both on another
- disk or volume. The install script will notice the missing subdirectories
- and will ask for the other disk. Please remember that you MUST use
- the subdirectories on these other disks even if the disk only contains
- one sort of files. Thus, the disk with the manual MUST contain
- a 'Docs' subdirectory containing all the manual files.
- Warning! Please give each disk you use another name, otherwise there
- might be problems.
-
-
- Manual installation for AmigaDOS 2.0 or 3.0
- -------------------------------------------
-
- If you don't have 'Installer' or you want to install PowerVisor manually
- (because you distrust my install script) you must install PowerVisor
- manually. Just perform the following steps one by one. Not all steps
- are needed. The advantages of all steps are explained below.
- Note that I assume that your harddisk or disk is called 'work:'. If this
- is not the case just replace 'work:' by the correct name everywhere in
- these steps. Also note that some installation techniques are recommended
- above others. The recommended method is always the one that is also
- compatible with the 1.3 version of PowerVisor unless otherwise noted.
-
- To install a minimal PowerVisor execute the following steps :
-
- o The best way is probably to make a subdirectory (called 'PV' for
- example) where you can put all PowerVisor files.
- Add the following line to your S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence :
-
- assign pv: work:pv
-
- o Make a subdirectory called 'c' in the 'PV' subdirectory and put
- the 'pv' executable there.
-
- o Adjust your path or let c: assign to that subdirectory (with the
- AmigaDOS 2.0 multiple assign feature) like this
- (add to S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence) :
-
- path pv:c add (recommended)
-
- or
-
- assign c: pv:c add
-
- o Copy the 'powervisor.library' to your LIBS: directory (recommended)
- or make a subdirectory 'libs' in the 'PV' subdirectory and put the
- library there. In the last case you must also use the multiple assign
- feature like this (add to S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence) :
-
- assign libs: pv:libs add
-
- You now have a minimal installation of PowerVisor. This is just enough
- to run PowerVisor, but you will have no online help, no error messages
- (only numbers), no manual, no examples, no PowerVisor-startup file
- (containing useful PowerVisor extensions), no menus, no reqtools
- requesters (unless you already have reqtools), ...
-
- Use the following step(s) if you want online help, error messages and
- menus :
-
- o Copy the following files to the same directory where you put the
- executable ('pv') (recommended if you plan to use PowerVisor only
- in AmigaDOS 2.0) or put them in your S: subdirectory (only
- recommended if you plan to use PowerVisor in AmigaDOS 1.3 now and
- then) :
-
- PowerVisor-help.qq (or PowerVisor-help)
- PowerVisor-ctrl
- PowerVisor-menus
- PowerVisor-errors
-
- All files ending with '.qq' are compressed. Use the 'dc' utility
- in the archive to decompress them like this :
-
- dc PowerVisor-help.qq PowerVisor-help 4
- delete PowerVisor-help.qq
-
- You won't need the 'dc' utility for anything else. Delete it when
- you are ready with it (after the installation, you may need it
- once more for parts of the manual).
-
- Use the following step(s) if you want to use reqtools requesters in
- PowerVisor (some of the PowerVisor-scripts and some of the menus use
- these requesters. If reqtools.library (© Nico François) is not available,
- PowerVisor uses very primitive replacements) :
-
- o Copy 'reqtools.library' to LIBS: (recommended) or to the same place
- you put 'powervisor.library'. Note that you must make sure that you
- don't overwrite a more recent version of reqtools. Check the version
- with the following commands :
-
- version reqtools.library
-
- and
-
- (first make sure that the reqtools.library from the PowerVisor
- archive is in RAM:)
- lha x pv.lha libs/reqtools.library ram: (or something like this)
- version ram:reqtools.library file
-
- If the second version is more recent you should copy the newer
- reqtools.library over the old one (probably somewhere in LIBS:)
-
- When PowerVisor starts it will execute the S:PowerVisor-startup file if
- this file exists. The PowerVisor-startup file from the archive is rather
- useful and installs some nice new commands and features. It is highly
- recommended. Note that you should also install all example PowerVisor
- scripts if you install the PowerVisor-startup file because some of these
- example scripts are used in the startup script.
-
- o Copy 'PowerVisor-startup' to your S: directory (recommended)
- or make a subdirectory 's' in the 'PV' subdirectory and put the
- file there. In the last case you must also use the multiple assign
- feature like this (add to S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence) :
-
- assign s: pv:s add
-
- o Make a subdirectory 'pv' somewhere in S:
- Note that it is best to put all PowerVisor scripts (except the
- PowerVisor-startup script) in 'S:pv' because then you don't need
- to type this pathname when you use the 'script' command (PowerVisor
- automatically looks in that subdirectory)
-
- o Put all example scripts from the archive (in subdirectory 's/pv')
- in that new subdirectory
-
- o The included PowerVisor-startup file also needs FD: assigned to
- the subdirectory containing your fd-files. Fd-files are files
- containing information about Amiga library functions. If you don't
- have these files (note that you can find the AmigaDOS 1.3 fd-files
- on the Extras 1.3 disk) you must delete the four lines in the
- PowerVisor-startup file starting with '-lfd', otherwise add
- the following line to your S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence :
-
- assign fd: <subdir for fd-files>
-
- Execute the following steps to install the manual (which can also be
- used as an enhanced online help file if you have MultiView
- (© Commodore) :
-
- o Make a subdirectory called 'docs' in the 'PV' subdirectory (this
- place is only important if you plan to use MultiView. MultiView
- will look for the documentation in 'pv:docs')
-
- o Copy all files from the archive (the complete 'docs' subdirectory)
- to the new 'docs' subdirectory
-
- o It is possible that the 'CommandRef.guide' file is compressed
- (to make it possible that the manual fits on one old filesystem
- disk). If this is the case it will be named 'CommandRef.guide.qq'.
- Decompress it with the 'dc' utility like this :
-
- dc CommandRef.guide.qq CommandRef.guide 4
- delete CommandRef.guide.qq
-
- You won't need the 'dc' utility for anything else. Delete it when
- you are ready with it
-
- o If you have MultiView you can use it to read the documentation.
- You can also start MultiView from within PowerVisor (with 'ahelp',
- 'cmdhelp' and 'funhelp') so you have a magnificent online help
- environment. If this is the case you can delete the following
- files :
-
- ConvertGuide2Doc
- ConvertGuide2Doc.c
- doc.info
- ConvertDoc.script
-
- o If you don't have MultiView but you don't mind the MultiView
- commands in the manual you can also delete the previous files
- like in the previous step
-
- o If you don't have MultiView and you want to convert the manual
- to a more readable (readable with a normal textviewer, that is)
- format you must follow the following procedure :
-
- cd pv:docs
- for each #?.guide file do
-
- ConvertGuide2Doc #?.guide #?.doc (don't use wildcards,
- replace with correct
- filename)
- delete #?.guide
- delete #?.guide.info
- copy doc.info #?.doc.info
-
- After this you can delete the four files like in the previous
- steps
-
- o The 'docs' subdirectory also contains a 'searchit' program. This
- program is used by the 'index' alias defined in the
- PowerVisor-startup file. If you have the 'ixemul.library' it is
- probably best to replace 'searchit' by 'searchit.gcc' because
- this version is much faster and shorter :
-
- copy searchit.gcc searchit
-
- You can delete 'searchit.lc' and 'searchit.gcc' after that.
- You can also delete 'searchit.c' if you don't want to look
- at the source
-
- There are some additional utilities that you can use to enhance some
- features of PowerVisor. Execute the following steps to install them :
-
- o If you want to change the online help (PowerVisor-help) you need
- the 'QuickHelp' utilities. Copy the following files in the same
- subdirectory where the 'pv' executable is located :
-
- MakeHelp
- ArcFiles
- Help
-
- o If you want to make your own structure files (see the 'addstruct'
- command) you must copy the 'MStruct' utility in the same
- subdirectory where the 'pv' executable is located
-
- If you also want to run PowerVisor in AmigaDOS 1.3 (or 1.2) you must
- also copy the 1.3 versions of all executable programs. All 1.3 versions
- have the same name extended with 13.
-
- o Copy the wanted files to the same subdirectory as 'pv' :
-
- pv13
- MStruct13
- MakeHelp13
- ArcFiles13
- Help13
-
- If you want you can also copy the additional 'Examples', 'Source' and
- 'PVDevelop' subdirectories. PowerVisor does not need these. They are
- for your information only.
-
- This concludes the manual installation for AmigaDOS 2.0.
-
-
- Manual installation for AmigaDOS 1.3 (or 1.2)
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- Follow these steps if you want to install PowerVisor for AmigaDOS 1.3.
- Just perform the following steps one by one. Not all steps are needed.
- The advantages of all steps are explained below.
- Note that I assume that your harddisk or disk is called 'work:'. If this
- is not the case just replace 'work:' by the correct name everywhere in
- these steps. Also note that some installation techniques are recommended
- above others. Note that if you install PowerVisor like described below
- you will not be able to run PowerVisor in AmigaDOS 2.0. If you want
- to use PowerVisor in AmigaDOS 2.0 and AmigaDOS 1.3 at the same time you
- must follow the AmigaDOS 2.0 installation procedure.
-
- To install a minimal PowerVisor execute the following steps :
-
- o The best way is probably to make a subdirectory (called 'PV' for
- example) where you can put all PowerVisor files.
- Add the following line to your S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence :
-
- assign pv: work:pv
-
- o Make a subdirectory called 'c' in the 'PV' subdirectory and put
- the 'pv13' executable there (if you want you can rename it to
- 'pv')
-
- o Adjust your path like this (add to S:user-startup or
- S:startup-sequence) :
-
- path pv:c add
-
- o Copy the 'powervisor.library' to your LIBS: directory
-
- You now have a minimal installation of PowerVisor. This is just enough
- to run PowerVisor, but you will have no online help, no error messages
- (only numbers), no manual, no examples, no PowerVisor-startup file
- (containing useful PowerVisor extensions), no reqtools requesters
- (unless you already have reqtools), ...
-
- Use the following step(s) if you want online help, error messages and
- menus :
-
- o Copy the following files to S:
-
- PowerVisor-help.qq (or PowerVisor-help)
- PowerVisor-ctrl
- PowerVisor-errors
-
- All files ending with '.qq' are compressed. Use the 'dc' utility
- in the archive to decompress them like this :
-
- dc PowerVisor-help.qq PowerVisor-help 4
- delete PowerVisor-help.qq
-
- You won't need the 'dc' utility for anything else. Delete it when
- you are ready with it (after the installation, you may need it
- once more for parts of the manual).
-
- Use the following step(s) if you want to use reqtools requesters in
- PowerVisor (some of the PowerVisor-scripts use these requesters. If
- reqtools.library (© Nico François) is not available, PowerVisor uses
- very primitive replacements) :
-
- o Copy 'reqtools.library' to LIBS:
- Note that you must make sure that you don't overwrite a more recent
- version of reqtools. Check the version with the following commands :
-
- version reqtools.library
-
- and
-
- (first make sure that the reqtools.library from the PowerVisor
- archive is in RAM:)
- lha x pv.lha libs/reqtools.library ram: (or something like this)
- type ram:reqtools.library opt h
-
- If the second version is more recent you should copy the newer
- reqtools.library over the old one (in LIBS:)
-
- When PowerVisor starts it will execute the S:PowerVisor-startup file if
- this file exists. The PowerVisor-startup file from the archive is rather
- useful and installs some nice new commands and features. It is highly
- recommended. Note that you should also install all example PowerVisor
- scripts if you install the PowerVisor-startup file because some of these
- example scripts are used in the startup script.
-
- o Copy 'PowerVisor-startup' to your S: directory
-
- o Make a subdirectory 'pv' in S:
- Note that it is best to put all PowerVisor scripts (except the
- PowerVisor-startup script) in 'S:pv' because then you don't need
- to type this pathname when you use the 'script' command (PowerVisor
- automatically looks in that subdirectory)
-
- o Put all example scripts from the archive (in subdirectory 's/pv')
- in that new subdirectory
-
- o The included PowerVisor-startup file also needs FD: assigned to
- the subdirectory containing your fd-files. Fd-files are files
- containing information about Amiga library functions. If you don't
- have these files (note that you can find the AmigaDOS 1.3 fd-files
- on the Extras 1.3 disk) you must delete the four lines in the
- PowerVisor-startup file starting with '-lfd', otherwise add
- the following line to your S:user-startup or S:startup-sequence :
-
- assign fd: <subdir for fd-files>
-
- Execute the following steps to install the manual (which can also be
- used as an enhanced online help file if you have MultiView
- (© Commodore) :
-
- o Make a subdirectory called 'docs' in the 'PV' subdirectory (this
- place is only important if you plan to use MultiView. MultiView
- will look for the documentation in 'pv:docs')
-
- o Copy all manual files from the archive (the complete 'docs' sub-
- directory) to the new 'docs' subdirectory
-
- o It is possible that the 'CommandRef.guide' file is compressed
- (to make it possible that the manual fits on one old filesystem
- disk). If this is the case it will be named 'CommandRef.guide.qq'.
- Decompress it with the 'dc' utility like this :
-
- dc CommandRef.guide.qq CommandRef.guide 4
- delete CommandRef.guide.qq
-
- You won't need the 'dc' utility for anything else. Delete it when
- you are ready with it
-
- o If you have MultiView you can use it to read the documentation.
- You can also start MultiView from within PowerVisor (with 'ahelp',
- 'cmdhelp' and 'funhelp') so you have a magnificent online help
- environment. If this is the case you can delete the following
- files :
-
- ConvertGuide2Doc
- ConvertGuide2Doc.c
- doc.info
- ConvertDoc.script
-
- o If you don't have MultiView but you don't mind the MultiView
- commands in the manual you can also delete the previous files
- like in the previous step
-
- o If you don't have MultiView and you want to convert the manual
- to a more readable (readable with a normal textviewer, that is)
- format you must follow the following procedure :
-
- cd pv:docs
- for each #?.guide file do
-
- ConvertGuide2Doc #?.guide #?.doc (don't use wildcards,
- replace with correct
- filename)
- delete #?.guide
- delete #?.guide.info
- copy doc.info #?.doc.info
-
- After this you can delete the four files like in the previous
- steps
-
- o The 'docs' subdirectory also contains a 'searchit' program. This
- program is used by the 'index' alias defined in the
- PowerVisor-startup file. If you have the 'ixemul.library' it is
- probably best to replace 'searchit' by 'searchit.gcc' because
- this version is much faster and shorter.
-
- copy searchit.gcc searchit
-
- You can delete 'searchit.lc' and 'searchit.gcc' after that.
- You can also delete 'searchit.c' if you don't want to look
- at the source
-
- There are some additional utilities that you can use to enhance some
- features of PowerVisor. Execute the following steps to install them :
-
- o If you want to change the online help (PowerVisor-help) you need
- the 'QuickHelp' utilities. Copy the following files in the same
- subdirectory where the 'pv13' (or 'pv') executable is located :
-
- MakeHelp13
- ArcFiles13
- Help13
-
- If you want you can remove the '13' suffix from their names
-
- o If you want to make your own structure files (see the 'addstruct'
- command) you must copy the 'MStruct13' utility in the same
- subdirectory where the 'pv13' (or 'pv') executable is located
-
-
- If you want you can also copy the additional 'Examples', 'Source' and
- 'PVDevelop' subdirectories. PowerVisor does not need these. They are
- for your information only.
-
- This concludes the manual installation for AmigaDOS 1.3.
-