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- UPGRADING TO PFE32 1.01 FROM PFE32 0.06.002 OR EARLIER
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- IF YOU'VE BEEN USING VERSION 0.06.002 OR EARLIER OF THE 32-BIT EDITION OF PFE,
- YOU SHOULD READ THIS FILE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO USE 1.01
-
- THIS FILE DOES NOT AFFECT YOU:
- - IF YOU'VE NOT USED PFE BEFORE
- - IF YOU'RE USING THE 16-BIT EDITION
- - IF YOU'VE BEEN USING PFE32 0.07.001, 0.07.002 or 1.00.000
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- USE OF THE WINDOWS REGISTRY IN THE 32-BIT EDITION
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-
- The 32-Bit Edition now stores all configuration information in the registry,
- private to each logged-on user of the workstation. Some facilities available
- previously for using multiple ini files have been removed, but roughly
- equivalent feature have been added.
-
- Configuration data is now held in the registry under the key
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- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AP\PFE
-
- You can have multiple configuration sets, equivalent to multiple ini files, for
- each user. Each set has a name of up to 32 characters, containing alphanumerics,
- spaces, underscore, hyphens or dots; case is retained but is not significant.
-
- One configuration set is marked as the "default startup set", and PFE will use
- this by default unless you include the new command line option "/r" to specify
- a set. The default startup set will be called "DefaultConfiguration" unless you
- say otherwise, so that
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- pfe32
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- starts PFE with "DefaultConfiguration" and
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- pfe32 /r "Edit Sources"
-
- starts it with "Edit Sources". Note the use of quotes around a configuration
- name that contains spaces.
-
- A new utility INI2REG converts old ini files into registry configuration sets
- for you; you'll need to run this before you start to convert your old ini file.
- The use of this utility is described below.
-
- The Options Preferences command now has a "Configuration Sets" panel to manage
- configurations. You can create empty sets, delete sets, and copy the contents
- of existing sets to new ones.
-
- The "/r" option also affects the DDE interface that PFE offers to other
- applications and to other instances of itself. Normally, the DDE service name
- that is created will be "PFE32"; but using "/r" causes this to change to be
- "PFE32" followed by the name of the registry configuration set.
-
- The effect of this is to enable you to run single instances of PFE and keep the
- use of configuration sets consistent between them. For example, you might have
- shortcuts that start PFE with configuration sets "Set A" and "Set B"; by
- default you will run only one instance using each set.
-
- You can, of course, use the "/m" option to force multiple instances to run as
- before
-
- The Options Preferences "Configuration Sets" panel also allows you to export
- data from a configuration set into a file, and to import from these files into
- existing configuration sets. This allows portability of configurations between
- users and between 32-Bit systems; the files are compatible across all hardware
- platforms. There is no provision to move configration data between 16-Bit and
- 32-Bit systems.
-
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- CONVERTING PFE32.INI TO THE WINDOWS REGISTRY
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-
- Conversion of your standard PFE32.INI file (or any other PFE initialisation
- file that you have for the 32-Bit Edition) into the registry is a very simple
- operation.
-
- 1. From Windows Explorer, start the utility program INI2REG.EXE that performs
- the conversion for you. You must not have an instance of PFE running at this
- point or the utility will not start.
-
- 2. You'll see an introductory panel with some descriptive text; click
- on "Continue" once you've read this.
-
- 3. Now you'll see the main conversion dialog that does the work. At the top
- you'll see the name of the initialisation file to be converted; by default
- this is the standard file that you've been using with your earlier release
- of PFE. You can click on "Browse for file" to locate a different one if
- you wish.
-
- 4. Next, select the name of the registry configuration set that the
- initialisation file is to be converted into. By default, the edit control
- will show the name of the standard set "DefaultConfiguration", and you're
- recommended to convert your main (or only) initialisation file into this
- set.
-
- 5. Finally, click on "Convert File" to copy the data into the Windows Registry
-
- You'll now be able to start version 1.01 of PFE, and your previous
- configuration will be there for you.
-
- Once you've performed the conversion, you need not retain your old
- initialisation files on your disk.
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