Drake R8 Tuning & Logging Program for Windows 3.0

Harold Long, [76576,3412] Compuserve

Manual Installation of DRAKE.EXE
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This release kit includes the following:

DRAKE.EXE               The executable
INSTALL.TXT             These installation instructions
USER.TXT                User manual 
PSETUP.DLL              Windows Library
MHELP.VBX               Windows Library
ENGLISH.TXT             English language broadcasts by country, time, 
			and frequency
MEMORY.TXT              A sample Drake memory bank layout.


1. Copy PSETUP.DLL and MHELP.VBX to your \WINDOWS directory.  They provide
support for the printer setup command (under File/Printer Setup...) and
peek/poke/inp/out memory primitives.

2. Copy DRAKE.EXE, ENGLISH.TXT, and MEMORY.TXT to wherever you want.  They 
do not have to be on your search path, by the way. A recommendation is that 
they go on your boot disk (assumed to be C:) in directory "DRAKE" so that 
the default file lookup will work properly, i.e., in C:\DRAKE.

3. Edit your WIN.INI file and add the following five lines. They can go 
anywhere in the INI file, at the end is ok. If you set up a different 
directory layout, modify the file entries accordingly.  Other program
defaults will be stored here when Drake R8 is run.

[DrakeR8]
TZoffset=5
LogFile=C:\DRAKE\ENGLISH.TXT
MemFile=C:\DRAKE\MEMORY.TXT
CommPort=COM1:

The TZoffset (Time Zone offset) is the hours added to your *local* time to get 
Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).  For example, Eastern Standard Time is 5, 
Eastern Daylight Time would be 4.

The line "ComPort=COM1:" can be changed to point to COM2: if that is the one 
you wish to use to connect to the receiver.  This may also be changed from 
within the program.

4. Start Windows and using the "New" command, add a Program Item for "Drake 
R8" to whatever your favorite Program Group may be -- for example, Windows 
Applications. Using the "Browse" feature, find/point the new Program Item
to where you have stored DRAKE.EXE, and then the Change Icon to check that
the Drake R8 Icon is there (if it is, you have installed the Program Item
entry properly).

5. Ensure your radio is properly cabled to your computer. A "straight through" 
cable (typically a DB-9 male to DB-9 female) is required.  I got mine from
Radio Shack.

6. Print USER.TXT if you want a hard copy reference, I won't call it a  
"manual." On-line help files will come later, if and when I find my 
HELP resource compiler.

				 NOTE

    This program *requires* VBRUN100.DLL to be present in your \WINDOWS
    directory. It is not included in this distribution kit, but may be
    downloaded from the Compuserve Basic Forum (MSBASIC) Lib 5 as VBRUN.ZIP