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- File README.1ST 26/08/94
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-
-
- Thank you for your interest in AMADEUS, the MS Windows client for
- Hyper-G. Hyper-G is a large-scale, distributed, hypermedia information
- system that runs over the internet. It interoperates with other
- network tools like gopher, WWW, WAIS and telnet logins.
-
- FEATURES:
- * Full Hyper-G functionality (including authoring capabilities!).
- * Multi-Protocol client (supports World-Wide-Web, Gopher, WAIS, FTP,
- and Telnet protocols).
- * Easy-to-use graphical user interface.
- * Integrated RTF->HTF converter lets you import text generated by
- most popular word processors.
- * Integrated viewers for Text (SGML), Images, and Movies.
- * Extensive online help.
- * Comes complete with 35-page user manual.
- * Is absolutely free software, and may be copied and used without
- restrictions, including for commercial applications.
-
- AMADEUS runs on IBM compatible PCs running Windows 3.1, Windows for
- Workgroups, Windows 95, and Windows NT. What you have downloaded is
- still a beta version, and we are interested in bug reports
- (see at end).
-
-
- Required Hardware
- -----------------
-
- AMADEUS requires an absolute minimum of an 80386-based machine with 4
- MB RAM. Our recommended configuration is a 33-MHz, or faster, 80486
- with at least 8 MB of RAM. (>=256 color display is also recommended.)
- The AMADEUS binaries require about 3 MB (+ 2 MB for Win32s) of disk
- space, and you should have about 10 MB free in your TEMP directory
- when running AMADEUS.
-
-
- Required Networking Environment
- -------------------------------
-
- In order to use AMADEUS you must have direct access to the network,
- ie. your machine has a network card and it's connected to the network
- or you use your modem to call a terminal server that allows SLIP or
- PPP connections. This direct access must support the WinSock
- networking specification. To run Amadeus, you will need a system
- running Microsoft Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode, a 1.1 compliant
- winsock.dll and Microsofts win32s software. Windows NT users have
- these Dlls built in.
-
- The winsock.dll provides the TCP/IP networking under windows. Amadeus
- is a winsock1.1 compliant program. If you are using a commercial
- TCP/IP stack such as PC-TCP, PC-NFS or running a local area network
- such as Novell in addition to TCP/IP, you need to contact your network
- vendor directly about obtaining the Winsock DLL. If you are accessing
- the Internet with a stand-alone PC running Windows, you may use a
- shareware winsock called the "Trumpet Software International
- Winsock". A copy of the Trumpet software can be found at
- ftp.utas.edu.au in the pc/trumpet/winsock directory.
-
- Note 1: PC/TCP 2.20 and 2.30 does not work with multimedia documents,
- but version 2.31 works perfectly
-
- Note 2: The hostname of your PC must be listed in the TCP/IP host file
-
-
- Microsofts Win32s software
- --------------------------
-
- AMADEUS is a 32-bit application and therefore requires the win32s
- software when run under Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups. Win32s
- allows you to run 32-bit Windows applications which do not use Windows
- "NT-specific features" under Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups.
- Win32s was developed by Microsoft and it is freely distributed to
- licensed users of Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups. If you
- already use other 32-bit Windows applications then you should already
- have this software installed in your /windows/system/win32s directory.
- If AMADEUS is your first 32-bit application then the setup program of
- Amadeus will install win32s before installing AMADEUS.
-
-
- Installing AMADEUS
- ------------------
-
- The software can be downloadad by anonymous FTP from host
- iicm.tu-graz.ac.at in directory /pub/Hyper-G/Amadeus. Just unzip
- amadeus?.zip (? stands for 1,2, .., if there are several zips) in a
- temporary directory or on a floppy disk set (each zip on one floppy)
- and start the SETUP.EXE program.
-
-
- Customizing AMADEUS
- -------------------
-
- AMADEUS can be customized using the file amadeus.ini and
- docman.ini. Documentation of the options defined in these files will
- be available in future versions.
-
-
- Hyper-G
- -------
-
- For more information about Hyper-G in general, we recommend you take a
- look at the /pub/Hyper-G directory on iicm.tu-graz.ac.at, or look at
- the online documentation on our Hyper-G server (info.tu-graz.ac.at).
-
- There is an international mailing list ("hyper-g@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at")
- for the discussion of Hyper-G related topics and announcements. To
- subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to "listproc@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at"
- with the following message body:
-
- subscribe hyper-g <your name>
- or
- unsubscribe hyper-g
-
-
- Bugs
- ----
-
- This is beta test software, that means there will be bugs. We are very
- interested in bug reports. Please send electronic mail to
-
- amadeus@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
-
- with a concise description of the error, INCLUDING what you did to
- generate it. Please try to re-produce the error.
-
-
- Warranty
- --------
-
- Copyright 1993-94 Institute for Information Processing and Computer
- Supported New Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, Austria.
-
- This software is provided "as-is" and without warranty of any kind,
- express, implied or otherwise, including without limitation, any
- warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
-
- In no event shall the Institute for Information Processing and
- Computer Supported New Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology be
- liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any
- damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits,
- whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action,
- arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this
- software.
-