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- Kudo« Catalog Reader (tm) version 3.0 for Windoes 3.1 ReadMe file
- (c) 1996 Imspace Systems Corporation.
- All Rights Reserved.
- San Diego,CA USA
- support@imspace.com
- www.imspace.com
- August 05, 1996
-
-
- System Compatibility:
- *********************
- Kudo Image Browser is a Windows 3.x application that will run under Windows 3.1, 3.11,
- Windows for Workgroups 3.1, 3.11, For Windows NT, and Windows 95 please download and use
- WIN95RDR.EXE.
-
- Using the Browser.
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- Launch Kudo by:
-
- 1. double clicking on the Kudo executable in the File Manager or the Kudo icon in the Program Manager.
-
- 2. Double clicking on a Kudo catalog.
-
- Full details on functions and features of Kudo is contained in the Help file.
-
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- STAY IN TOUCH - VISIT OUR WEB SITE! - www.kudo.com
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-
- MORE INSTALLATION NOTES:
-
- This section documents what the Kudo installer does during installation:
-
- - Application files are copied to the target directory, typically c:\kudoRead
-
- - The installer searches for the Microsoft OLE 2.0 DLLs on your machine. Three
- things can happen as a result of this search:
-
- 1) If they are found (as the result of someone having installed
- another OLE 2.0 compliant application), and they are of the same or
- a newer version as the copies that Kudo is shipped with, then nothing
- is done.
-
- 2) If they are found but are of an older version than the
- copies Kudo is shipped with, then the Kudo installer will copy its
- newer versions over the existing ones, wherever it might find them
- on your machine.
-
- 3) If they are not found, Kudo places new copies of all the OLE 2.0
- DLLs into your windows\system directory.
-
- The OLE 2.0 DLLs are functionally an extension to the Windows 3.1 operating
- system, and so are effectively not a part of Kudo at all. This means that,
- once installed, they are available for all applications that support OLE 2.0,
- and need not be installed more than once. Other OLE 2.0 compliant applications
- will generally observe this convention, and will not duplicate these files in
- their installation if they are already present. For this reason, if you
- un-install Kudo, it may be risky to remove these files unless you are certain
- there are not other applications that rely on them. The OLE 2.0 DLLs are:
-
- ole2.dll
- ole2conv.dll
- ole2disp.dll
- ole2nls.dll
- ole2prox.dll
- compobj.dll
- storage.dll
-
- - Additional DLLs, like BWCC.DLL, etc. are installed following an identical procedure
- to the OLE DLLs. This file fills a support function and is shipped with
- many applications.
-
- - The Kudo installer determines if it needs to modify AUTOEXEC.BAT. You will
- be prompted before it modifies the file. If you agree to modification, the
- line:
- SHARE.EXE /L:500 /F:5100
-
- will be added to AUTOEXEC.BAT. If there is already a line present that loads
- SHARE, then that line will be modified to ensure that the /L and /F options
- are at least as large as the amount that Kudo requires.
-
- - The Kudo installer then registers Kudo as an application with Windows,
- and takes care of registering OLE 2.0 on your machine. Effectively, this
- modifies the registration database, REG.DAT, in your windows directory, and
- indirectly, your WIN.INI file. It is accomplished by running REGEDIT.EXE
- with the files OLE2.REG and KUDO.REG, which are installed to your target Kudo
- directory. This operation can be repeated manually if REG.DAT ever becomes
- corrupted, see tech note file "REGEDIT.TXT".
-
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- Known Installation Problems:
-
- Two situations have been observed to cause problems with the installer:
-
- 1) Installing to a PC that is configured as a diskless workstation can confuse
- the installer as to the whereabouts of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. In this
- situation, the installer generally cannot access your boot drive. When the
- installer attempts to modify your autoexec file, it will probably come
- up with a path to an AUTOEXEC.BAT that doesn't exist, such as A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- If this happens, you will need to make the modifications yourself. Select
- the option to NOT have the Kudo installer modify your autoexec file, and
- then, after the installation is complete, manually add the line:
- <path>\SHARE.EXE /L:500 /F:5100
- to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. <path> is the full path to your DOS directory
- (or wherever SHARE.EXE exists). The /L & /F options are suggested minimums.
- If you are already loading SHARE in your autoexec, then you only need to
- ensure that you add the command line options to the SHARE statement. If
- the options are already there, and they are larger, then leave them alone.
- If they are there but are smaller, then use the values suggested here.
- You will need to reboot your computer for this change to take effect.
-
- 2) Installing to a network version of Windows can cause problems if the
- user does not have write privileges to some of the Windows directories.
- The Kudo installer may need to add some DLL's to your current windows\system
- directory. This directory will often be on a networked drive that is read-
- only when you are running a network version of Windows. You will get messages
- to the effect of "Can't write to file ... due to read-only protection...", etc.
- This indicates that you will need to have the network supervisor run the
- installation in supervisor mode to obtain proper write access to the
- necessary directories.
-
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-
- !!!!!!!!!!! LAST MINUTE CHANGES:
-
- Relative Relative Addressing allows anyone with a Browser
- Addressing: to access images or media files if the media files are in the same
- directory as the catalog or in the same path with a different drive letter.
- For example, if the CDROM drive letter changed from D: to L:, Kudo
- Catalog Reader will locate the media file and display it or play it!
- The same applies to placing images.