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- VERY IMPORTANT ! READ BEFORE INSTALLATION !
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- Warranty/Disclaimer
- -------------------
- All procedures of this computer program and its installation have been
- tested on inhouse computer systems of BrainWare and/or client sites to
- provide best possible compatibility to your systems. As there are differ-
- ences between software versions and computer equipment, BrainWare does
- not take any responsability for damages or loss of data caused by the
- installation/usage of the WinMan system. The client is responsible for a
- full backup of its own software/data prior to install and a proper
- compatibility test before using this software in an enduser environment.
-
-
- Using this Software (Licencing/Support)
- ---------------------------------------
- The WinMan Software package was developed at BrainWare Consulting & Deve-
- lopment, R.Schallberger, Schaffhauserstr. 82, CH-8222 Beringen/Switzerland.
- All rights are reserved to this company. The package of software you just
- recieved is a trial licence which may be used free of charge during 60 days
- after installation on a maximum of 20 workstations per company. After this
- trial time you have to buy or remove this software. Pricing information can
- be found in the document PRICES.ZIP which is a zipped WinWord 2.0 document.
- In order to be able to provide support during your trial time, we need the
- following information of your company to be faxed to us before any call can
- be answered:
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- Company Name
- Name/Department of the person in charge with evaluation
- Network environment (e.g. Novell NW386, 4MB Tokenring...)
- Primary used computer hardware (e.g Compaq 486/33,VGA)
- Main host communications (e.g. VT220 & 3270)
- Main Software Packages (e.g. WfW 3.11, WinWord 6 US, Excel 5 int)
-
- The better this information the better our support, so please take you a few
- minutes to provide this information. Any support during trial time is on FAX
- basis only. We will call you back if further information is required.
-
- You are not allowed to use/reproduce/publish any part of this software/
- documentation other then as described above.
-
- Contact address is:
-
- BrainWare Consulting & Development
- Rey Schallberger
- Schaffhauser Str. 82
- CH-8222 Beringen / Switzerland
-
- Fax./Tel. (053) 35 36 15
-
- These files may be given to other users who wanna test them (when including)
- this READ.ME) under the restrictions seen above.
-
- Pricing
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- Following a few prices (all prices in Swiss Francs, exchange rate at date I
- write this is: 1.47 Swiss Francs = 1 US$). A detailed pricelist is available
- on demand (fax us):
-
- 1 User 115.- sFr.
- 10 User 995.- sFr.
- 50 User 2950.- sFr.
- 100 User 4950.- sFr.
- 250 User 9990.- sFr.
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- All Prices +6.2% Tax + shipping costs. WinMan gets paid per node (workstation)
- Prices can be changed without any further notice.
-
- Introduction
- ------------
- As you may imagine, it is not easy to provide an installation routine
- for a piece of software which is meant to install/maintain the software
- on your network/workstation.
- As the configuration of the WinMan scripts depends on your personal disk
- structure as well as your preferences (e.g. Menu titles, notification
- messages), we provide a limited setup routine which supports a list of
- applications documented later in this file.
- This 'Base Installation' will allow you to get a first understanding of
- WinMan's functionalities. Please take the time to experience this system
- and use this understanding to go on with the implementation of a complete
- WinMan system in your environment.
- The environment which gets installed automatically provides the following
- items:
-
- Applications: Automated Setup, Repairing and Update of...
- - Microsoft WinWord 2.x
- - Microsoft Excel 4.x
- - Microsoft Powerpoint 3.x
- - Microsoft Mail 3.x
- - Microsoft Project 3.x
- - Microsoft Access 1.x
- - Microsoft Windows Utilities
-
- Drivers: Automated Setup, Repairing and Update of...
- - HP LaserJet II,III,IV models
- - Windows Postscript Driver
-
- Support Tools...
- - FirstAid, the local and remote support feature (see seperate chapter)
-
- Basic Options of a WinMan system not covered by automatic installation:
-
- - Automatic installation of Windows itself including
- - Configuration of printers
- - Video drivers
- - Country settings
- - Keyboard settings
- - ...
- - Automatic configuration/startup of menu system
-
- To implement such functions please do not hesitate to contact us. We can
- provide sample instructions to add such functionality.
-
- You can find later in this document a more detailed description of the
- functionality of the implementation of each application as well as the list
- of files which will be overwritten by WinMan. During the installation of
- WinMan the Setup routine will copy files which could be overwritten into
- a seperate directory (\BACKUP.WM under your Windows user directory) to
- avoid damages or loss of settings in case of problems. Please be aware
- that running the installation routine more the once would copy the files
- again in their most recent status !
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Prerequisites: - Windows 3.x/Windows for Workgroups 3.x
- - Workstation running Windows in 386 Enhanced Mode
- - 0.5 MB of disk space for WinMan application files
- (per WS or central on network, depends on installation)
- - about 15 KB of disk space per user on networks
- - max. 200 KB RAM during execution within Windows
- (no TSR/drivers required before loading Windows)
- - a copy of BWCC.DLL (can be found on Compuserve,
- GO BPASCAL, Library 10 Windows Tools)
-
- The test installation of WinMan reads settings of the applications currently
- installed in your Windows to find out which applications are available.
- There for make sure the workstation you use to run the initial installation
- is a Windows system which is fully configured on your needs (Windows incl.
- requested applications). You will find later a description how to port such
- a configuration to additional systems without the need to configure them
- (except Windows itself).
-
- The files in the downloaded ZIP file are prepared to run off any drive/sub-
- directory you copy it to. If you remove the documentation ZIP files, you
- can copy the installation files also to a floppy disk (1.44MB) please make
- sure to use the -D parameter when unzipping. This will preserve the directory
- structure.
-
- Make sure the Windows System directory contains a copy of BWCC.DLL. This is
- the Borland runtime Library. If you don't have this file, please download
- it from CompuServe, GO BPASCAL, Library 10 Windows Tools.
-
- To run the installation please first choose the type of setup you need.
- The 'Standalone Installation' simply installs WinMan for the usage of your
- locally installed Windows. The 'Network Installation' offers you basically
- the same functionality but runs the files off a common network drive. This
- allows you to add easily additional workstations to your test environment
- (e.g. to test the network support features). Please be aware that the
- Network installation just reads the settings of the machine you are working
- on and there for will use this settings on any additional machine.
-
- Standalone Installation
- -----------------------
- 1. Start Windows
- 2. Insert the floppy into any drive and run x:INSTALL.EXE, where
- 'x' marks the drive letter of the drive you inserted the floppy to
- 3. INSTALL requires now the directory where it should install the
- WinMan application files. By default this is the \WINMAN subdirectory
- within the Windows System directory. You may choose any drive/directory
- you want.
- 4. Now start the installation and wait until the task is complete.
- 5. This completes the installation of WinMan. To make it active, now
- simply run WINMAN.EXE off the Windows system directory you have
- choosen, or even better, use the Filemanager to drag WINMAN.EXE into
- the AutoStart group to make it active at every startup of the
- workstation.
-
- Once you've completed the configuration of one system you can simply copy
- it to additional systems by copying the contents of the WinMan appli-
- cation directory plus the following files within the Windows system
- directory to the new system:
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- WINMAN.EXE
- WINMAN.INI
- BW_SHELL.DLL
- BW_TOOL.DLL
- BW_DDE.DLL
- FBDLL.DLL
- BWCC.DLL
-
- Then startup Windows on this machine and add WINMAN.EXE to the AutoStart
- group of your menu system.
-
- Network Installation
- --------------------
- 1. Start Windows
- 2. Insert the floppy into any drive and run x:INSTALL.EXE, where
- 'x' marks the drive letter of the drive you inserted the floppy to
- 3. INSTALL requires now the directory where it should install the
- WinMan application files. By default this is the \WINMAN subdirectory
- within the Windows System directory. If you are running a shared
- copy of Windows on the network server you will require
- supervisory rights to write to this area. If you are running a
- local copy of Windows, you should choose a common network drive to
- install WinMan. This will allow easy distribution to any additional
- users you may wanne use WinMan. Please be aware that you can run
- WinMan off a networked installation of WinMan without any risk to
- disturb any other users configuration, as the only file which may
- be used by other users is the BWCC.DLL (Borland control library).
- 4. Now start the installation and wait until the task is complete.
- 5. This completes the installation of WinMan. To make it active, now
- simply run WINMAN.EXE off the WinMan application directory you have
- choosen, or even better, use the Filemanager to drag WINMAN.EXE into
- the AutoStart group to make it active at every startup of the
- workstation.
- 6. If you want to use WinMan on additional workstations, simply add
- WINMAN.EXE to the AutoStart group of the users configuration. If
- You installed WinMan into a different directory then the WINMAN
- subdirectory within the Windows system directory, make sure all
- necessary users have read access to this directory. If you are
- running a local installation of Windows, you have to copy the
- following files from the workstation you used for the original setup
- into the Windows system directory:
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- WINMAN.EXE
- WINMAN.INI
- BW_SHELL.DLL
- BW_TOOL.DLL
- BW_DDE.DLL
- FBDLL.DLL
- BWCC.DLL
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- IMPORTANT (for Standalones and networked Workstations)
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Do not register WINMAN.EXE in the RUN= or LOAD= commandline of WIN.INI,
- as this would require to provide also scripts to start your menu system
- and so on. This is part of a complete WinMan setup and not the test
- setup you are installing right now.
-
-
- Documentation
- -------------
- If you recieve this via floppy disk, the floppy contains the current WinMan
- documentation in a file called WMDOC.ZIP which is in the common PKZIP format.
- To unpak this file, copy it to a harddisk drive and use PKUNZIP WMDOC.ZIP.
- The file will use about 2 MB of diskspace when expanded.
- If you downloaded these files from Compuserve, the documentation can be found
- in a seperate file WMDOC.ZIP in the same Forum you downloaded the WM15.ZIP.
- The documentation is in WINWORD 2.0 format and formatted for duplex
- printing on a HP LaserJet 4si. To print it, select duplex printing - short
- edge binding in the Printer setup panel.
- Also check the document FAMILIAR.ZIP which contains some information to
- get easier familiar with the product.
-
- Application Setups
- ------------------
- Following you will find more detailed information which versions of the
- applications we tested together with the test scripts. If you want to
- support a different version of the application or some of the settings
- the script installs are different from your preferences, just change them
- in the appropriate script file, named in each of the the following sections.
-
- Microsoft WinWord 2.x
- ---------------------
- Scriptfile: WINWORD.WMS
- Tested on : WinWord 2.0a/b/c International and German
- Add. Info : Default Speller is American English
- Page Setup A4
-
- Microsoft Excel 4.x
- -------------------
- Scriptfile: EXCEL.WMS
- Tested on : Excel 4.0 and 4.0a International
- Add. Info : Default Speller is American English
- Page Setup A4
-
- Microsoft Powerpoint 3.x
- ------------------------
- Scriptfile: POWERPOI.WMS
- Tested on : PowerPoint 3.x International
- Add. Info : Default Speller is American English
- Page Setup A4
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- Microsoft Mail 3.x
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- Scriptfile: MSMAIL.WMS
- Tested on : MS Mail 3.x International and German
- Add. Info : Default Speller is American English
- Setup prepares only MHS
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- Microsoft Project 3.x
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- Scriptfile: WINPROJ.WMS
- Tested on : Project for Windows 3.x International
- Add. Info : Default Speller is American English
- Page setup A4
-
- Microsoft Access 1.x
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- Scriptfile: MSACCESS.WMS
- Tested on : Access 1.x International
- Add. Info : Default Speller is American English
- Page setup A4
-
- Microsoft Windows Utilities
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- Scriptfile: UTI_WIN.WMS
- Tested on : Windows 3.10/3.11/WFW 3.11 International and German
- Add. Info : Prepares only the menu options for the most common tools
- without any further settings.
-
- Printer Drivers
- ---------------
- Scriptfile: HPLJ2.WMS, HPLJ3.WMS, HPLJ4.WMS, PSCRIPT.DRV
- Tested on : HP International and German drivers
- Add. Info : Page Setup A4
-
- Support Tools
- -------------
- Scriptfile: UTI_CONF.WMS
- Tested on : Windows 3.10/3.11, WFW 3.11, NT
- Add. Info : Not fully covered in test setup
-