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- Gregorian Programmers Guild -- INSTALL.TXT --
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- Installation and Upgrade Instructions for the dwm package
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- Copyright (C) 1994, Gregorian Programmers Guild, all rights reserved.
- Published by Gregorian Programmers Guild,
- 4112 Hotel de Ville
- Montreal, Quebec,
- H2W 2H1
- Canada
- (514) 281-6425
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- dwm (tm) Copyright (c) 1994, Gregorian Programmers Guild
- dobs (tm) Copyright (c) 1994, Gregorian Programmers Guild
- vern (tm) Copyright (c) 1994, Gregorian Programmers Guild
- blanch (tm) Copyright (c) 1994, Gregorian Programmers Guild
- ***********************************************************
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- Installation
-
- Installation must be done from within the Windows environment. The
- user must have an installation distribution of the software, that includes
- the two executable programs SETUP.EXE and PART2.EXE, as well as a
- number of files that have an underscore (_) as the third character.
-
- In Program Manager go to the File menu and select Run. Type in
- a:\setup.exe (or wherever the distribution files happen to be). Enter the
- path for the destination directory, by default it will be c:\dwm; you can
- change this to wherever you want the files installed. Click on the install
- button, wait several seconds.
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- If you are installing over a previous version of dwm the setup program
- will ask to restart once you have finished the installation. You can
- install the program directly onto the older version (see the following
- section on upgrading for more details).
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- The setup program first verifies that all the necessary system files are
- installed. It may copy the special dynamic link library file ctl3dv2.dll
- into your Windows system directory (usually c:\windows\system).
- This library is used to create 3-dimensional looking dialog boxes and
- controls, and must be present in the system directory if dwm is to work
- properly. The second step of the installation is performed by the program
- part2.exe, which is run automatically by setup.exe during the setup
- process. During this step, several files (executables, libraries, help and
- text files, and special dwm startup files) are copied to the destination
- directory and the PATH in the autoexec.bat file is modified to include
- the dwm directory. When this is finished you can create a program
- manager group and/or read the README.TXT file, by clicking on the
- appropriate button in the setup dialog box (these buttons become active
- after the installation is complete).
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- Gregorian Programmers Guild INSTALL.TXT Page 1
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- After you have finished the installation, go the the dwm group in the
- program manager and double click on the dwm icon. This will launch dwm
- (which appears on the desktop as a small dark grey desktop object with
- several concentric squares (similar to an icon) as well as Vern (the light
- grey virtual desktop control). If you right click on the dwm button a
- dialog box will open. To make dwm the default shell (normally the shell
- is Program Manager whose primary function is the launching of
- applications), open the dialog box as above and click the checkbox
- labelled 'Make dwm the default shell' ON. Click on the 'Accept' button
- and close Program Manager to exit Windows. You might want to check
- the autoexec.bat file to verify that the PATH statement has indeed been
- updated to include the dwm directory (c:\dwm by default). This is required
- only if you use dwm as the default Windows shell, which is recommended.
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- Now reboot your computer (Ctrl-Alt-Del) or hit the reset button so the
- computer will recognize the updated PATH (or do whatever you normally
- do to update the PATH environment variable).
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- After the computer has rebooted run Windows. You should see a nice
- clean desktop with the small dwm button and vern (the virtual desktop).
- If you see the error message 'Cannot find About.dll' and 'Cannot find
- dwmhook.dll' you have not properly updated your PATH statement. Make
- sure that the dwm directory is in the PATH (type 'PATH' at the DOS
- prompt to view your path).
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- If all is well (that is Windows has started and dwm is running as the
- shell) now would be a good time to click on the desktop (this is any
- area of the screen which is NOT covered by any other program).
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- If you click the left mouse button on the background (i.e: desktop) you
- should see a pop-up menu. This is a user configurable menu which
- contains some stock Windows applications, along with some native dwm
- functions. If you click the right mouse button (we'll refer to these clicks as
- left- clicks and right-clicks from now on) you should see the Program
- Manager menu. This menu contains a series of flyout menus, each of
- which represents a different program manager group. Clicking on one of
- the group menus displays a list of items in the group.
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- Click on the dwm group of the pop up program manager menu, and then
- click on the dobs entry. Dobs will start, and a small button that looks
- like a stylized hard disk will be stuck to the cursor. Move the cursor to
- where you want the dob button, and left click with the mouse to stick the
- dob button onto the desktop.
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- Now click on the desktop to pop up the Program Manager menu and select
- a group that contains programs you use frequently. A flyout menu will
- appear listing the items in that group, click on an application -- if you
- release the mouse button right away that application will be launched, if
- you hold down the mouse button and drag the file onto the desktop, you
- can drop it to blanch your application. Make blanches for your favorite
- applications. Your dwm Windows environment is now basically configured,
- and you can use all the dwm applications (dwm, dobs, vern and blanch).
- All the applications have extensive online help that can be accessed
- through the Windows help system.
- Gregorian Programmers Guild INSTALL.TXT Page 2
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- *Note* that making dwm the default shell changes the SHELL= line in the
- system.ini file so that Windows loads dwm.exe rather than progman.exe
- when Windows is started. If you have problems,
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- - load c:\windows\system.ini using an ASCII text editor
- - (like the DOS EDIT program)
- - change the line shell=c:\dwm\dwm.exe to shell=c:\windows\progman.exe
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- the above instructions assume that you have installed dwm.exe in the
- directory c:\dwm and that Windows is located in c:\windows.
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- Files: The way your software is packaged depends somewhat on the
- way in which it was obtained. Your shareware package must be an
- installation distribution, containing the 2 executable programs
- SETUP.EXE and PART2.EXE, as well as a number of files which have
- an underscore (_) as the third character of the file extension.
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- setup.exe - installation program
- part2.exe - private executable, used by setup.exe
-
- After installation, the following files will be present:
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- dwm.exe - dob window manager
- dwm.mnu - dwm main menu file
- vern.exe - virtual desktop environment
- dobs.exe - file manager
- blanch.exe - button launcher
- reswatch.exe - resource graph
- gpglogo.exe - commercial for us
- dwmhook.dll - mouse/keyboard hooks for vern and dwm
- about.dll - general purpose about box dll
- ctrl3dv2.dll - dll for 3-D look in dialog boxes
- dwmhep.hlp - help for dwm
- dobshep.hlp - help for dobs
- vernhep.hlp - help for vern
- blanchep.hlp - help for blanch
- register.hlp - help for registering your shareware package
- readme.txt - info on dwm package and product support
- install.txt - this file
- license.txt - shareware license agreement
- order.txt - info for registering dwm
- vendor.txt - info for shareware vendors and distributors
- bbs.txt - info for BBS administrators
- order.frm - cheque/money order order form
- ccorder.frm - credit card order form
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- After you run dwm the following files will also be created,
- progman.mnu - program manager menu file (dwm directory)
- dwm.dsk - dwm desktop file (dwm directory)
- dwm.ini - dwm initialisation file (Windows directory)
- blanch.ini - blanch initialisation file (Windows directory)
- The aggregate size of the installed package is about 900 Kbytes.
- With the exception of the files ctrl3dv2.dll and dwm.ini, all files will
- be copied into the destination directory specified during the installation.
- Gregorian Programmers Guild INSTALL.TXT Page 3
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- Upgrading
-
- Registered users will be contacted whenever there are changes or
- improvements made to any of the dwm applications. Upgrades can be
- obtained directly from GPG for a modest handling charge, or downloaded
- electronically from a number of different locations. Registration codes
- provided by GPG are good for any version of similar generation as the
- original registration (1.xx, for example); major upgrades will require
- new codes that registered users can purchase for a small upgrade fee.
-
- To upgrade your software to a more recent version, simply run the SETUP
- program of your new distribution disk (you can run SETUP out of dobs,
- or a dwm Run... dialog box). Setup will install the upgrade over the old
- distribution. After the installation is complete you should restart
- Windows or you may have trouble. The user is given the following cautions
- for performing upgrades:
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- Do not click on the Create Program Group button. Creating a program
- group during an upgrade will duplicate icons in the group (i.e. two copies
- of each icon for each of the executable, help and text files). The
- duplication of icons, if accidentally performed, is not fatal, but
- annoying as the user will have to run the Program Manager to delete the
- unnecessary items.
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- Your old dwm.mnu file will be preserved in the course of upgrading, if
- one already exists. The default menu file installed during the setup
- will be renamed as dwm.new.
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