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- IMPORTANT: INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS!!
-
- To enjoy the reports in the archive ORIGIN15.ZIP,
- unarchive the ZIP file to a directory of your choice. These
- documents are designed to be viewed and printed with REPLICA,
- a state of the art document viewing and printing system for
- Windows that a) eliminates the need to own any Windows word
- processor; and b) preserves most of the formatting, design and
- graphics which were part of the original document. Understand
- that REPLICA is not a word processor: text is locked and you cannot
- edit or change anything.
-
- FIRST, unarchive origin15.zip to a directory of choice. A
- sensible name for such a directory would be \origins. Then start
- Windows if you have not already done so. Open up the directory
- tree display and display the file list window for \origins.
- YOU MUST FIRST START REPLICA ITSELF WHICH IS EMBEDDED IN THE
- FILE INTRO15.EXE. YOU MUST BEGIN WITH INTRO15.EXE AS REPLICA
- IS NOT CONTAINED IN ANY OF THE OTHER FILES IN THIS ARCHIVE.
- If you attempt to view .rpl files in any other text viewer or word
- processsor they either will not open or you will view a great deal
- of garbage on screen and a total loss of formatting and design.
- SIMPLY DOUBLE CLICK ON THE ICON FOR INTRO15.EXE IN THE FILE LISTING
- OF THE \ORIGINS DIRECTORY DISPLAY. THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO IT! REPLICA
- will start and display the file intro15.repl which is embedded in the
- file intro15.exe. You may now view each of the documents that comprise
- the 'book' Origins of Mythology by opening each within REPLICA as you
- would any file from the File Menu. REMEMBER THAT EACH DOCUMENT HAS THE
- EXTENSION .RPL NOT .DOC.
- You may, of course, set up a program item within a group of
- your choice for intro15.exe as you would for any executable. You may
- print any range of pages, or an entire .rpl document, as you would with
- any Windows application by using Print Setup and Print in the usual
- manner. There is on-line Help on the menu bar of REPLICA if you lose your
- way. I strongly recommend that you take a few minutes and read the on-line
- help with REPLICA so that you can orient yourself about viewing,
- selecting text or graphics for cut and past clipboard operations, and
- printing.
-
- ORIGINS OF MYTHOLOGY
-
- There are five files in the shareware archive of
- ORIGINS OF MYTHOLOGY: intro15.exe, readme15.rpl, mat15sh.rpl,
- orig15sh.rpl, and regist15.rpl and I recommend that you read them
- in this order. YOU MUST START WITH INTRO15.EXE AS EXPLAINED ABOVE
- IN ORDER TO INSTALL THE REPLICA VIEWING SYSTEM. Readme15 will give
- you some general background about several issues and introduce
- you to Reality Software. Mat15sh and orig15sh are shareware
- previews of the research reports that comprise the heart of the
- 'book'. Regist15 is a registration form should you wish to
- acquire a copy of the complete study. In the registered
- version of ORIGINS OF MTYHOLOGY, which is not archived, matse15.rpl
- and origin15.rpl are the complete research reports.
-
- ABOUT REPLICA
-
- REPLICA does not preserve the original margins of most
- documents in that the right and left margins on the REPLICA
- viewing screen are usually wider than on the original document
- when it is viewed with the word processor that created it.
- If you find the font size displayed by REPLICA to be smaller than
- you wish, check to see that your video mode is 640 x 480. Such a
- resolution will correct most readablity problems. REPLICA is
- machine intensive. I doubt it will run on a 286 and performance
- will be slow on a 386SX.
-
- Understand that this is the first commercial release of
- REPLICA and the programming challenge was formidable! If you
- don't believe it, ask your friendly neigborhood Windows programmer.
- Reflect that no cross application document viewing system was
- available for Windows until late fall '93 even though the need was
- apparent years ago. Play with the buttons on the tool bar and drop the
- View menu and notice the many choices there. Enjoy the presentation
- and reflect that you now can explore state-of-the-art document viewing
- for Windows. I welcome any and all comments, criticisms and suggestions:
- see addresses on the registration form. Please note the large size of
- this shareware archive and realize that .exe and .rpl files do not
- undergo much compression by PKZIP: the total size of all files in
- this archive is about 1.3Meg. Be certain you have adequate space on
- your drive to hold these files and for ease of use they should all be put
- in the same directory. The registered version of ORIGINS OF
- MYTHOLOGY V1.5 is only available on two high density disks.
-
- The shareware version of REPLICA is embedded within intro15.exe
- and includes an extensive Help file. You may view an unlimited number
- of REPLICA documents (.rpl) but you can only create 5 (five) REPLICA
- document files of your own. Registration of REPLICA is required if
- you wish to create an unlimited number of .rpl files. See About ...
- on the Help menu. Reality Software does sell REPLICA: you must
- contact Farallon Software directly. If you are interested in document
- publishing for Windows I highly recommend REPLICA.
-
-
- Ben Blumenberg
- Reality Software
- P.O. Box 105
- Waldoboro, ME 04572
- January 9,1994
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