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INSTALLING COELI - ELECTRIC PLANISPHERE
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Your Coeli package is contained in a self-extracting file.
This file is called COELI377.EXE
Coeli cannot be run straight from HD floppy or CD ROM. To
install Coeli, just follow these simple steps:
1) first create a new directory on your hard drive from Dos or
Windows. We suggest you call the directory COELI-3, but of
course anything will suffice. To accomplish this from the Dos
command line you would type the following:
MD COELI-3
In Windows, you would double-click the File Manager icon and
then select Create Directory from the File menu.
2) Copy all the files from your distribution media into the
new directory.
3) Switch to the new directory and unpack the main archive
according to your supplier's instructions (it will probably
have a .ZIP or .LZH extension).
From the Dos prompt, you might proceed as follows (assuming
your distribution medium is a floppy disk currently in drive
A, the supplier's archive is called COELI.ZIP, and your hard
disk is labelled drive C):
COPY A:\*.* C:\COELI-3 ( copy from floppy )
CD C:\COELI-3 ( switch to new dir)
PKUNZIP COELI.ZIP ( unpack archive )
4) As mentioned, your Coeli package is contained in a
self-extracting file called COELI377.EXE. Simply run this like
a normal program from your new directory. All the Coeli files
will be reconstituted, and you will then be able to delete
COELI377.EXE from your hard disk, as it will have served its
purpose.
NOTE: the foregoing steps will not be necessary if you
obtained your package on a diskette with COELI377.EXE in the
root directory unarchived. If such is the case, you may also
have received a program called INSTALL.BAT which should
completely automate the installation process explained here.
5) If you have not already done so, install your Vesa driver
by typing its name. If it loads without error, you'll be home
and dry and all you will need to do is start COELI from the
Dos prompt or from inside your favourite shell. Coeli runs
under Windows too, but more slowly.
Please note that you should always install a Vesa driver prior
to using Coeli. A universal Vesa driver may have been provided
on the same disk volume on which you acquired Coeli. Otherwise
please see the end of the manual for suggestions on how to
obtain one. Coeli 3 will not function without a Vesa driver!
WINDOWS 95 USERS:
There hasn't been much time to check Coeli's functionality
exhaustively within Microsoft's new operating system. However,
on a Pentium with a 2 Mb Diamond Stealth graphics card (S3
chipset) and UniVBE version 5.3 installed, there don't seem to
be any problems.
Simply drag COELI.EXE from the Explorer onto the desktop, and
a shortcut should create itself there with Coeli's own icon.
If the correct icon doesn't appear, right-click on the new
desktop icon, select Properties, Change Icon, then Browse.
While you're about it, go to the Memory tab and ensure 'Auto'
is visible in all the selection boxes. Check out the Screen
tab at the same time: Coeli should run as a full screen
application. Under Program - Advanced, the following boxes
should have ticks in them:
'Prevent MS DOS-based programs from detecting Windows' and
'Suggest MS-DOS mode as necessary'
If problems occur the first time round under Win 95, take note
of the resulting error messages, and then start fiddling
around with the Properties settings until you begin to get
positive results. The most likely cause of faults will be
failure to install a working VESA driver...
We recommend that you glance at the manual before proceeding
further, either the Windows Write version (COELI.WRI), but
preferably the Ascii version (COELI.TXT).
For example, to access COELI.TXT from Windows, just
double-click on it under File Manager and it will be displayed
in Notepad.
To read the same file under Dos, enter the following at the
Dos prompt:
TYPE COELI.TXT |MORE
The complete Coeli package contains a number of text files,
all designed to help you get started with the minimum of fuss.
Have a browse through any item with the .TXT extension if
you've the time. There is even HELP-ME!.DOC for Vesa problems.
Please make a backup copy of your distribution disk so that,
if anything goes wrong, you can simply repeat the above
process and try again.
If you have serious installation problems, do not hesitate to
get in touch.
Roger Hughes
Swimming Elk Software
Manskiventie 1031
16790 Manskivi
Finland
E-mail: Swimming.Elk@sci.fi