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- Installing MCBase from an archive file.
-
-
- ========== I M P O R T A N T ================
-
- SET VALUE FOR "FILES=xxx" IN YOUR SYSTEM'S CONFIG.SYS TO A MINIMUM VALUE
- OF 40, AS IN:
-
- FILES=40
-
- OR HIGHER! SEE "MCBASE REQUIREMENTS" IN THE DOCUMENTATION FILE "MCBASE.DOC"
- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION!
-
- ===================================================
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: this section discribes the installation of MCBase from the
- original "ZIP"-type archive file. It is very lightly that the various BBS-
- sysops will convert this original archive file to a format that is standard
- on their system. Two other common archivers, that you might encounter, are
- ARJ (by Robert K. Jung) with the filetype "ARJ" and LHA (by Haruyasu
- Yoshizaki) with the filetype "LZH".
-
- Normally, you will have received the shareware version of MCBase as the
- archive file MCBxxx.ZIP (xxx = version number). If you did NOT receive
- MCBase as this archive file, then please make sure, you have at least the
- following files after extraction of the archive:
-
- MCBASE.EXE - MCBase executable file, for XT-compatibles and up.
- MCBASE.DOC - MCBase documentation file (as an ASCII-text file).
- ORDER.MCB - MCBase order form.
- LICENSE.MCB - MCBase license agreement.
- REVISION.MCB- MCBase revision history.
- GENMCB.EXE - Utility to create a new (and empty) set of database
- files.
- INSTALL.DOC - MCBase installation guide.
- README.1ST - IMPORTANT MESSAGE ON CONFIG.SYS'S "FILES=xx".
-
- FILE_ID.DIZ - Description file.
- VENDINFO.DIZ- Description file, according to VENDINFO standard.
-
- The following files (a demonstration database set) should also be included:
-
- MCB1.DBF MCB2.DBF MCB3.DBF
- MCB1.DBT MCB2.DBT MCB3.DBT
-
- MCB4.DBF MCB5.DBF MCB6.DBF
- MCB4.DBT MCB5.DBT MCB6.DBT
-
- (Your copy could be incomplete and you might get the wrong idea about the
- performance and documentation of the MCBase system).
-
- You will need PKWare's PKUNZIP.EXE to extract the archive. Use the follo-
- wing command to extract all files:
-
- PKUNZIP MCBxxx.ZIP
-
- In case of an ARJ-file format, use: ARJ x MCBxxx.ARJ
- In case of an LZH-file format, use: LHA e MCBxxx.LZH
-
- Installing MCBase on your system should not be very difficult, if you
- follow these steps:
-
- - 1) Copy the original MCBxxx.ZIP archive file to a floppy disk and store
- it in a safe place.
-
- - 2) Note: Among the extracted files, should be a demonstration database
- set. In case you don't want to use the demonstration database
- (anymore), execute GENMCB.EXE to generate a new set of datafi-
- les. DELETE GENMCB.EXE after use! It generates NEW and EMPTY
- databases, so you wouldn't want to use it after you've been
- entering data. (You can retrieve another copy from the
- MCBxxx.ZIP archive file, should you need it).
-
- - 3) Create a new directory for the MCBase system, place the archive file
- in it and extract all files.
-
- - 4) Start your wordprocessor, import the ASCII-document MCBASE.DOC and
- print it.
-
- - 5) Run MCBase. If missing, the program will now create the neccesary
- index files (MCBxKEYx.NDX) and the configuration file MCBASE.CFG.
-
- Note: If an MCBASE.CFG configuration file was INCLUDED in the copy of
- the MCBxxx.ZIP archive file that you received, then delete this
- MCBASE.CFG prior to execute MCBASE.EXE. If the contents of this
- particular MCBASE.CFG configuration file does NOT match YOUR
- system's configuration, MCBase may not be able to complete
- initialisation.
-
- - 6) If you have a printer which is NOT an Epson-compatible, you should
- now run MCBase and check the printer configuration. See your printer-
- manual for the correct commands and see section "Configuring MCBase",
- topic "Printer" for assistance on printer configuration.
-
- After these steps you'll be ready to run the shareware version of the
- MCBase Music Collection DataBase system.
-