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IMAGE COMPENDIUM
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The whole CD is completely menu driven with standard GIF file viewers.
No installation is need if your video card works with existing 
GIF viewer, PICEM.

Each picture are shown in alphabetical order in slide shows driven
by GIF viewer program PICEM.

If you want to view the pictures in your own pace, you can select the
picture show viewer program GIFDESK.

If you want more control, including mouse-support and GIF file 
conversions to different graphic formats for presentations or desktop 
publishing, you can install VPIC into your hard disk.  

Several other GIF viewers and editors are included in this disc for
your convenience.  Sometimes a certain GIF viewer works in some systems
but not the others.

INSTALLATION
We assume you have a VGA card with at least 512k video memory.
If you have only 256k on your card, refer to PICEM.DOC and 
GIFDESK.DOC (in GIFDESK subdirectory) for instructions on how
to adjust the command settings in the GO.BAT and GO2.BAT files.
We strongly recommend you to upgrade you VGA card to at least
512k, preferrably to 1M, or you will miss a lot of colors.
Also a SVGA monitor with 1024x768 resolution enables your to see
SVGA picture in one screen.  If you have only the 640x480 VGA
monitor, you have to use PAGE-UP/PAGE DOWN keys to see the
complete SVGA picture.

No installation is needed if you are happy with the default settings
with PICEM and GIFDESK viewers.  Both viewers will work with most 
popular VGA cards.  Please refer to PICEM.DOC and GIFDESK.DOC 
for instructions on how to adjust the settings to work with your
video cards.

VPIC INSTALLATION
If you need mouse-support and other graphics control, you may need
VPIC.  To install VPIC, follow these steps:  
1.  Make a VPIC subdirectory in your hard disk:  MD VPIC
2.  Copy all the files from your CD-ROM to VPIC subdirectory:
    COPY *.* C:\VPIC         (assuming you are in the VPIC subdir
    of you CD-ROM and your hard disk is "C")
3.  Log into the VPIC subdir of your hard disk. If you don't know 
    the chipset of your VGA card, run the utility:  WHICHVGA 
4.  It will show you what VGA chipset your card has.  Then run: CONFIG    
5.  You'll see a list of VGA cards, choose the one that WHICHVGA 
    suggests.
6.  A customized version of VPIC for your VGA card will be created.
7.  Add VPIC to your DOS path in your AUTOEXEC.BAT (optional) or you
    may run "SET PATH=D:\VPIC" ("D" is the letter for your hard disk)
    before you run VPIC in othe subdirectories.
8.  Mouse driver must be loaded before running VPIC if you want
    mouse support.