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- Microsoft Access Version 2.0 Service Pack Readme File
- November 1994
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- (C) Copyright 1994 Microsoft Corporation
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- This document provides information about the Microsoft
- Access version 2.0 Service Pack. This release includes
- the Microsoft Jet database engine version 2.5, the OLE
- version 2.02 DLLs, and the Btrieve, Paradox, and xBASE
- installable ISAM drivers.
-
- You should install the files from this release if you
- want the latest version of the Jet database engine and
- the installable ISAM drivers or if you are currently
- using or planning to use OLE custom controls.
-
- Note This new version of the Jet database engine will
- work together seamlessly with the Jet database engine
- version 2.0 (shipped with Microsoft Access version 2.0)
- and with the Visual Basic version 3.0/Microsoft Access
- version 2.0 Compatibility Layer.
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- How to Use This Document
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- To view the Readme file in Windows Notepad, maximize
- the Notepad window.
-
- To print the Readme file, open it in Windows Write,
- Microsoft Word, or another word processor. Then select
- the entire document and format the text in 10-point
- Courier before printing it.
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- Contents
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- Installing the Microsoft Access Version 2.0 Service Pack
- Adding OLE Custom Controls Created with the Microsoft OLE
- Custom Control Development Kit After Installing the Service
- Pack
- Installing the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit Setup
- Wizard
- Verifying the Jet Database Engine Version Number
- Files Installed from the Microsoft Access Version 2.0
- Service Pack
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- Installing the Microsoft Access Version 2.0 Service Pack
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- This section describes how to install the Microsoft Access
- version 2.0 Service Pack files from an online service or from
- floppy disks. If you're going to install the Service Pack on
- a network file server or in a shared directory, first read
- "Considerations for Network Installations" below.
-
- The files that Setup installs are listed at the end of this
- document. For information about where Setup installs the files,
- see the section titled "General Installation Notes."
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- Considerations for Network Installations
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- If you're setting up the Service Pack files on a network file
- server, check the following before you begin:
- * The network must be operational, and you must have create,
- write, and delete privileges for the network directories in
- which you want to install the files. For more information, see
- your network software documentation and the topic "Network
- Installations" in the Microsoft Access version 2.0 Readme Help
- (ACREADME.HLP).
- * If any network users share the Windows operating system or other
- Microsoft applications, such as Microsoft Access and Microsoft
- Word (which share components), they must be logged off the
- network. Users must not access the directories that contain
- shared components on the file server or shared volume -- for
- example, W:\WINDOWS and W:\MSAPPS -- while you are setting up
- the Service Pack. You must have create, write, and delete
- privileges in these directories.
-
- Once you've installed the Microsoft Access version 2.0 Service
- Pack files on the network from an online service or floppy disks,
- each workstation user running Windows locally or from a shared
- directory and running Microsoft Access locally or from a shared
- directory must run Setup from the location on the network where
- the Service Pack files are installed.
-
- If users are installing Microsoft Access version 2.0 for the
- first time, and if they want the Service Pack files, then they
- must run two different Setup programs. First, they run Setup
- (either from floppy disks or from a network file server
- or shared directory) for Microsoft Access, and then they run
- Setup for the Service Pack.
-
- Installing the Service Pack from an Online Service
- --------------------------------------------------
- To install the Service Pack from an online service onto a
- stand-alone machine, network file server, or in a shared
- directory
- 1. In the Windows File Manager, confirm that you have a
- directory named ACCSVC, which contains two subdirectories
- named DISK1 and DISK2. If not, you may not have downloaded
- or decompressed the file ACCSVC.EXE correctly.
- 2. Choose Run from the File menu.
- 3. If you're installing on a network file server or in a shared
- directory, type <drive>:\ACCSVC\DISK1 SETUP /a
- Otherwise, type <drive>:\ACCSVC\DISK1 SETUP.
- 4. Follow the setup instructions on the screen.
- If you're installing on a network file server or in a shared
- directory, follow these guidelines:
- * Setup will install the files into the directory \ACC20SRV
- unless you specify a different directory. If you specify a
- different directory, it can't have the same name as the
- directory where Access version 2.0 is installed on the file
- server.
- * The Service Pack doesn't include shared components;
- therefore, when Setup prompts you for information about
- them, do the following:
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- In the Setup dialog box that asks if a directory other than
- MSAPPS should be used for shared components, choose OK.
-
- In the Setup dialog box titled Network Service Confirmation,
- choose Continue.
-
- In the Setup dialog box that prompts you to choose where the
- shared files will be installed, choose OK.
-
- * Each workstation user who needs the Service Pack files can
- now install them by running Setup from the ACC20SRV directory
- on the file server or from the directory where you installed
- the Service Pack.
-
- For additional information about installing the Service Pack, see
- the section titled "General Installation Notes," which appears
- later in this document.
-
- Installing the Service Pack from Floppy Disks
- ---------------------------------------------
- Follow the procedure that applies to your situation.
-
- To install the Service Pack from floppy disks onto a stand-alone
- machine
- 1. Start Microsoft Windows, and quit any other applications.
- 2. Insert the disk labeled "Setup" in drive A.
- 3. In the Windows Program Manager, choose Run from the File
- menu.
- 4. Type a:setup in the Command Line box, and then choose OK.
- 5. Follow the setup instructions on the screen.
-
- To install the Service Pack from floppy disks onto a network
- file server or in a shared directory
- 1. Ask all users who are sharing Windows or Microsoft
- applications such as Microsoft Access and Microsoft
- Word to disconnect from the network file server or
- the shared directory.
- 2. Start Microsoft Windows, and quit any other applications.
- 3. Insert the disk labeled "Setup" in drive A.
- 4. In the Windows Program Manager, choose Run from the File menu.
- 5. Type a:setup /a in the Command Line box, and then choose OK.
- (The /a switch indicates an administrator's installation.)
- 6. Follow the setup instructions on the screen using the
- guidelines listed above in Step 4 under the section titled
- "Installing From an Online Service:"
-
- General Installation Notes
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- When you install the Service Pack files on a network server,
- you must run Setup /a from floppy disks, or from \ACCSVC\DISK1
- if you downloaded the Service Pack from an online service. Do
- not copy the files to a single directory on the hard disk and
- then attempt to run Setup /a from there. If you do, the files
- won't be properly configured on the network server, and users
- won't be able to set up their workstations from the server using
- Setup.
-
- When Setup is run from floppy disks or from \ACCSVC\DISK1 on a
- stand-alone machine, or when Setup is run from a network file
- server or shared directory, it installs all files except
- READSRV.TXT and JETVER.TXT into the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory
- when it doesn't find an existing version of the file in that
- directory or when it finds an older version there. It also
- registers the information in OLE2.REG. Setup installs
- READSRV.TXT and JETVER.TXT into the directory C:\ACC20SRV
- unless a different directory is specified during installation.
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- Adding OLE Custom Controls created with the Microsoft OLE
- Custom Control Development Kit After Installing the Service
- Pack
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- After installing the Service Pack, if you need to insert an
- OLE custom control created with the Microsoft OLE Custom
- Control Development Kit and the control was not previously
- registered, you must follow the procedure below. If
- you don't follow this procedure, a serious error will
- occur.
-
- 1. In Form Design view or Report Design view, choose Insert
- Object from the Edit menu.
- 2. Select the Insert Control button. (If the OLE custom
- control you want to add is already in the Control Type
- list, just select the control from the list, and then
- click OK to insert it into the form. Do not follow the
- steps below.)
- 3. Click the Add Control button.
- 4. Select the file for the control you want to add, and then
- choose OK. Microsoft Access redisplays the Insert Object
- dialog box with your control added to the Control Type list.
- 5. Click the Cancel button.
- 6. Quit Microsoft Access, and then restart it.
- 7. Open the form or report in Design view again.
- 8. From the Edit menu, choose Insert Object.
- 9. Select the control you added previously, and then click OK.
-
- Note You do not need to follow the steps above if you're
- inserting any of the custom controls that shipped in the
- Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit.
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- Installing the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit Setup Wizard
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- If you'll be distributing new Microsoft Access applications
- using the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit, and if you want
- to use the new Service Pack files for these applications, you
- need to install an updated version of the Microsoft Access
- Developer's Toolkit Setup Wizard. Use the procedure below
- that applies to your situation.
-
- IMPORTANT You must have a Microsoft Access Developer's
- Toolkit license before installing the updated version of
- the Setup Wizard. You receive a license when you buy a
- retail Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit package.
-
- To install an updated version of the Microsoft Access
- Developer's Toolkit Setup Wizard after downloading the
- Service Pack from an online service
- 1. Quit all applications except Microsoft Windows.
- 2. In File Manager, select the directory ACCSRV, and then
- select the directory DISK2.
- 3. From the File menu, choose Run.
- 4. In the Command Line box, type:
- <drive>:decomp <drive>:SETUPWIZ.MD_ <Dstfilename>
- <drive> is the drive letter where you installed the Service
- Pack files. Dstfilename is the name, including the path, of
- the destination file. (Use the path where the Microsoft
- Access Developer's Toolkit files are installed --
- usually \ACCESS\ADT.) An example of the destination
- filename is c:\ACCESS\ADT\SETUPWIZ.MDB.
- 5. When the warning message appears that tells you the file
- already exists and asks if you want to append the file,
- choose No.
- 6. When the warning message appears that asks if you want to
- overwrite the existing file, choose Yes.
-
- To install an updated version of the Microsoft Access
- Developer's Toolkit Setup Wizard from the Service Pack
- floppy disks
- 1. Start Microsoft Windows, and quit any other applications.
- 2. Insert the second disk from the pack into drive A.
- 3. In the Windows Program Manager, choose Run from the File
- menu.
- 4. In the Command Line box, type:
- a:decomp a:\SETUPWIZ.MD_ <Dstfilename>
- Dstfilename is the name, including the path, of the
- destination file. (Use the path where the Microsoft
- Access Developer's Toolkit files are installed --
- usually \ACCESS\ADT.) An example of the destination
- filename is c:\ACCESS\ADT\SETUPWIZ.MDB.
- 5. At the warning message that tells you the file already
- exists and asks if you want to append the file, choose No.
- 6. At the warning message that asks if you want to overwrite
- the existing file, choose Yes.
-
- Note If you've already distributed Microsoft Access run-time
- applications using the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit,
- you may send copies of the Service Pack to your customers to
- upgrade to the Jet database engine version 2.5 and OLE
- version 2.02. You must use the Service Pack setup unchanged.
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- Verifying the Jet Database Engine Version Number
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- After installing the Microsoft Access version 2.0 Service Pack,
- the Jet .DLL files retain the same file names (for example,
- MSAJT200.DLL). If you want to verify what version of Jet you
- have and that you are the only one using a particular Microsoft
- Access database, choose About Microsoft Access from the Help
- menu in Microsoft Access, and then choose System Info.
-
- To verify the Jet database engine version number from the About
- Microsoft Access dialog box in Microsoft Access
- 1. From the Help menu, choose About Microsoft Access.
- 2. Choose the System Info button.
- 3. In the Choose a Category box, click the arrow, and then choose
- System DLL's from the list.
- 4. Scroll to MSAJT200.DLL in the list.
- The version number is to the right of the file name.
-
- Note You can use this procedure to check the version numbers of
- the OLE and ISAM DLLs, too. However, the version number for the
- file OLE2CONV.DLL remains the same (2.01) even after you install
- the latest version from the Service Pack.
-
- If you are a network administrator, you can automatically verify
- that everyone using a particular Microsoft Access database on a
- network file server or in a shared directory has the Jet database
- engine version 2.5 on their workstation. You can do this by
- calling the sample code provided in the JETVER.TXT file in the
- Service Pack from a new or existing AutoExec macro.
-
- Once you've followed the procedure below, users who don't have
- the Jet database engine version 2.5 installed on their work-
- station receive a message to that effect and are prevented from
- opening the database.
-
- To verify the Jet database engine version number using the
- code provided in JETVER.TXT
- 1. Create a new module in the Microsoft Access database where
- you want to use the code.
- 2. From the File menu in the Module window, choose Load Text.
- 3. Type JETVER.TXT, or choose it from the appropriate directory.
- 4. Choose the Replace button.
- 5. Save the module with the name Init.
- 6. Open the existing AutoExec macro or create a new one.
- 7. Add a RunCode action as the first action in the macro.
- 8. In the arguments section at the bottom of the window, type
- the function name Init().
- 9. Save the macro. (If this is a new macro, save it with the
- name AutoExec.)
-
- Note You can modify the code module to fit your needs. For
- example, you may want to change the message text to better suit
- your user environment.
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- Files Installed from the Microsoft Access Version 2.0 Service Pack
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- This section lists the files installed by the Microsoft Access
- version 2.0 Service Pack Setup.
-
- Besides being available from this release, the following files
- are also included in the ODBC Desktop Driver Pack version 2.0 or
- an application based on the ODBC Desktop Driver Pack version 2.0.
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- Files
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- MSAJT200.DLL
- MSAJU200.DLL
- MSJETERR.DLL
- MSJETINT.DLL
- JETVER.TXT
- BTRV200.DLL
- PDX200.DLL
- XBS200.DLL
- COMPOBJ.DLL
- OLE2.DLL
- OLE2CONV.DLL
- OLE2DISP.DLL
- OLE2NLS.DLL
- OLE2PROX.DLL
- STORAGE.DLL
- TYPELIB.DLL
- STDOLE.TLB
- OLE2.REG
- CTL3D.DLL
- READSRV.TXT
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