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- HELPFUL HINTS FOR INSTALLING THE ASTRO SHAREWARE
- TRIAL PACKAGE:
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- Installing ASTRO Shareware Trial Version.
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- This version of ASTRO is supplied either in the form of self-
- unpacking .ZIP files, or in the form of .ZIP files. If you
- downloaded from a BBS, you probably got the .ZIP files, and
- you will need PKUNZIP to unpack. If you got the package from
- a distributor, you probably got self-unpacking .ZIP files in
- the form of .EXE files. If the file names end in .ZIP they
- are .ZIP files, if they end in .EXE they are self-unpacking
- .ZIP file.
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- To Unpack a .ZIP file type
- PKUNZIP file dir
- where file is the name of the file with the .ZIP on it,
- and dir is the disk and/or directory that you want to unpack
- it to. Note: You need space for both the .ZIP and the
- unpacked files. Don't attempt to unzip the files to the same
- floppy disk.
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- To unpack FILE.ZIP to disk B: you would type
- PKUNZIP FILE B:
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- For further information on PKUNZIP type PKUNZIP for help.
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- To Unpack a .EXE self-unpacking file type
- FILE dir
- where file is the name of the file with the .EXE on it, and
- dir is the disk and/or directory that you want to unpack it
- to. Note: You need space for both the .EXE file and the
- unpacked files. Don't attempt to unpack the files to the same
- floppy disk.
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- To unpack FILE.EXE to disk B: you would type
- FILE B:
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- To Setup for 2 360k floppy disk systems. (This Setup is NOT
- recommended but can be done).
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- 1. Format 5 floppy disks.
- 2. Unpack each of the files to a separate disk. The exception
- of this is the HELP and DATABASE or HELP and DOCS files
- can be unpacked to a common disk.
- 3. Label each disk with the file that you unpacked. The Data
- disk should be labeled "DATA/TEMP/USER DISK"
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- To Setup for 2 720k floppy disk systems.
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- 1. Format 2 floppy disks.
- 2. Unpack the PROGRAM, UTILS and HELP files to 1 floppy disk.
- 3. Label the disk "ASTRO PROGRAM DISK"
- 4. Unpack the remaining files to the other floppy
- 5. Label the disk "ASTRO DATA DISK"
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- To Setup for 1 1.2M or 1.44M floppy disk.
- 1. Format one floppy disk.
- 2. Unpack each file to this disk.
- 3. Label it ASTRO.
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- To Setup for a hard disk system.
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- 1. Go to your main (root) directory i.e. C:\
- 2. Type MD ASTRO
- 3. Unpack each file to the ASTRO directory
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- To Start ASTRO. The Shareware trial program starts using
- SWASTRO not ASTRO.
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- Instructions for the file are in the file ASTRO.DOC.
- Print this out to your printer or use a program such as
- LIST.COM or BROWSE.COM to view it.
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