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MakeDCE - READ.ME
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Welcome to MakeDCE.
This file contains information you need to install MakeDCE
and additional information not included in the product documentation.
This README file is divided as follows:
- Before You Install MakeDCE
-Software Requirements
- Getting Help
- Installing MakeDCE
- Copyright notices
- Your Satisfaction
- Suggested Example
Before You Install MakeDCE
--------------------------
Software Requirements
---------------------
1. REXX Support.
2. Install on an HPFS file system - not FAT file system !
3. To be able to develop a DCE application you also need:
DCE development Environment (i.e. IDL compiler and libraries)
4. To execute a DCE application you also need:
- DCE Environment, with RPCD (RPC Daemon) running
- TCP/IP running
Getting Help
------------
Documentation
File MakeDCE.INF in the HELP directory. To use do VIEW MAKEDCE, or
use the MakeDCE Reference icon in the MakeDCE container.
Service, Technical Support and Defect Reporting
By e-mail to atal@vnet.ibm.com, ushani@vnet.ibm.com
Installing MakeDCE
------------------
1. Make sure MakeDCE Installation Diskette 1 is in drive A:
2. In an OS/2 command prompt window, type:
a:\install
3. Follow the instructions given by the installation program.
4. The system will require a reboot when the installation ends, so make
sure you exit all your running applications properly before you perform
a shutdown.
Copyright notices
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(c) Copyright International Buisness Machines Corporation 1995. All rights reserved.
This is a Beta release of the MakeDCE product.
THIS SOFTWARE IS MADE AVAILABLE, AS IS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL BUISNESS
MACHINES INCORPORATION DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY ABOUT THE SOFTWARE, ITS
PERFORMANCE, ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR
USE, FREEDOM FROM ANY COMPUTER DISEASES OR ITS CONFORMITY TO ANY
SPECIFICATION. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF
THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE USER.
Copyright of the software and supporting documentation is owned
by International Buisness Machines Incorporated, and free access
is hereby granted as a license to use this software, copy this
software and prepare derivative works based upon this software.
However, any distribution of this software or supporting documentation
must include this copyright notice.
The free use of this software is limited until a time when this product
is announced as generally avialable through regular marketing channels
of the International Buisness Machines Incorporation or affiliated
companies to which the Copyright of this software is legally granted.
Your Satisfaction
-----------------
Your satisfaction with IBM is important to us. If you are not totally
satisfied with this product, please contact us at atal@vnet.ibm.com.
Tell us what is not meeting your expectations and why you are
dissatisfied. Provide your name, your organizations's name, and
your telephone number so that we can contact you. We will work with
you to resolve your concerns.
To contact us, use any of these:
o IBM MAIL: TAL at HAIFASC3 , SHANI at HAIFASC3
o Internet: atal@vnet.ibm.com, ushani@vnet.ibm.com
Suggested Example
-----------------
Command-line tools:
-------------------
To try your first application with MakeDCE you can go to the EXMAPLES
directory and follow instructions in the README file there.
Visual builder tour:
--------------------
1 Click on the PMGlueGen icon on the MakeDCE container.
2 Click on 'New'
3 Click on 'ChDir...'
4 Look for the EXAMPLES\BINOP directory in the MakeDCE installation
directory, and select it.
5 Choose a new model name and fill in some information.
6 On the main menu-bar, select 'Model' and than 'Import APF File...'
7 Select 'BINOP.APF'
8 Click on the three icons in the main container: 'binop', 'client', and 'server'.
and look them up.
9 In 'binop', select the 'Make' page, and then the 'Add Files...' button, and
add MANAGER.C to the list of 'C Files' from which binop.idl is generated.
You can double-click on the file to see its contents.
10 You can now click on 'Create/Edit with PMIdlGen' to work a little with
the visual IDL generation tool.
When you return (IDL file is already prepared), you can continue this
example.
11 In 'client', select the 'Make' page, and then 'Find...' button, to
put BINOP.C as the 'File containing main()'. You can click on 'Edit'
to see the file contents.
12 Close all three notebooks.
13 Select all icons ('binop', 'server', and 'client') via the 'Select all'
submenu under 'Edit' on the menu-bar.
14 Click on 'Selected' in the main menubar, and then perform each of the
actions in its submenu:
- 'Write APF file...' -- choose a new APF file name.
- 'Generate Makefile...' -- choose a name of your choice.
- 'Build...' -- provide again the makefile name selected above. You
will watch how the makefile is performed. A common failure reason
is when DCE is not properly installed, or you are using a FAT file
system which does not allow long file-names as requires.
- 'Run...' will execute the client and server on two separate windows.
Note that you need to have RPCD (the DCE RPC daemon) running, and
also have a properly operational TCP/IP working on your machine, even
though the test will execute as two tasks on the same platform.