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- Welcome to the world of Racontex. To install the system on your computer, type
- INSTALL D: \SUBDIR where D: is the drive you wish to install to and \SUBDIR
- is the directory you wish to put it in. Do not forget the colon or the
- backslash and be sure to leave a space between the colon and the backslash.
-
- (If you are installing from a floppy disk, start from the prompt for that
- floppy disk i.e. if the disk is in drive A, start at the A> prompt. If you are
- installing from a downloaded copy, start at the prompt for the subdirectory
- holding the downloaded files TRANSFER.EXE, TRANSWIN.EXE, INSTALL.EXE, etc.)
-
- If you have RACONTEX in executable form on read-only media, such as a CD ROM,
- please see the file READONLY.DOC. CD ROM executable files are not compressed.
-
- The files are compressed into the files TRANSFER.EXE & TRANSWIN.EXE, and this
- procedure will extract them. If you wish to examine the files first you may
- extract them using LHA (copyright YOSHI).
-
- The compression was selected to ensure that the install procedure and the
- compressed files would all fit on two 360K floppy disks (or one of a bigger
- size). If you have the files on a single disk, and wish to transfer them to 2
- disks, copy all files but TRANSWIN.EXE to the first disk and copy just
- TRANSWIN.EXE to the second. The INSTALL program will detect this and call for
- the second disk. If you have the files on two disks, and want them on a single
- disk, just copy them all to the same disk.
-
- If the product was downloaded as an archive file from a bulletin board, it may
- fit on a single 360K floppy disk since it may not include the file VBRUN300.DLL
- which is required for the Windows front end (not required for DOS only). The
- VBRUN300.DLL file is widely available on BBS systems and may be inserted into
- the file TRANSWIN.EXE using LHA by disk vendors who wish to distribute a full
- version.
-
- The install procedure will automatically invoke the RACONTEX create function to
- produce an on-line manual as a RACONTEX database, and this README file as
- another. You will see the loading process in operation, and the databases will
- be there for you to experiment with searches.
-
- If you have a copy of LHA you may extract the file MANUAL from TRANSFER.EXE
- before you do the install, and print it for review.