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- INSTALLING COELI - ELECTRIC PLANISPHERE
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- Your Coeli package is contained in a self-extracting file.
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- This file is called COELINST.EXE
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- Coeli cannot be run straight from HD floppy or CD ROM. To
- install Coeli, just follow these simple steps:
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- 1) first create a new directory (folder) on your hard drive
- from DOS or Windows. We suggest you call the directory
- COELI-3, but of course anything will suffice. To accomplish
- this from the DOS command line you would type the following:
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- MD COELI-3
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- In Windows, you would double-click the File Manager icon and
- then select Create Directory from the File menu. In Windows 95
- Explorer, simply click the menu items File, New, and then
- Folder. A new folder object with blank name tag will then
- appear in Explorer's window, to which you should supply the
- name suggested above.
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- 2) Copy all the files from your distribution media into the
- new folder or directory.
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- 3) Switch to the new directory and unpack the main archive
- according to your supplier's instructions (it will probably
- have a .ZIP or .LZH extension). For Windows users, WinZip is
- recommended for this task.
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- From the DOS prompt, you might proceed as follows (assuming
- your distribution medium is a floppy disk currently in drive
- A, the supplier's archive is called COELI.ZIP, and your hard
- disk is labelled drive C):
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- COPY A:\*.* C:\COELI-3 ( copy from floppy )
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- CD C:\COELI-3 ( switch to new dir)
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- PKUNZIP COELI.ZIP ( unpack archive )
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-
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- 4) As mentioned, your Coeli package is contained in a
- self-extracting executable (program) file called COELINST.EXE.
- Simply run this like a normal program from your new directory.
- All the Coeli files will be reconstituted, and you will then
- be able to delete COELINST.EXE from your hard disk, as it will
- have served its purpose.
-
- NOTE: the foregoing steps will not be necessary if you
- obtained your package on a diskette with COELINST.EXE in the
- root directory unarchived. If such is the case, you may also
- have received a program called INSTALL.BAT which should
- completely automate the installation process explained here.
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- 5) If you have not already done so, install your VESA driver
- by typing its name. If it loads without error, you'll be home
- and dry and all you will need to do is start COELI from the
- DOS prompt or from inside your favourite shell. Coeli runs
- under Windows too, but more slowly.
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- Please note that you should always install a VESA driver prior
- to using Coeli. A universal VESA driver may have been provided
- on the same disk volume on which you acquired Coeli. Otherwise
- please see the end of the manual for suggestions on how to
- obtain one. Coeli 3 will not function without a VESA driver!
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- WINDOWS 95 USERS:
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- Coeli has now been exhaustively tested within Microsoft's
- newest operating system on a Pentium with a 2 Mb Diamond
- Stealth graphics card (S3 chipset) and UniVBE version 5.3
- installed. There haven't been any problems whatsoever -
- neither have customers using Coeli from Windows 95 reported
- any. In fact, we would go as far as to say that Windows 95 is
- the optimal environment in which to use Coeli!
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- We recommend the excellent WinZip utility for unpacking
- Coeli's main .zip archive. You can get it from
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- http://www.winzip.com
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- Tip: when in doubt about the Win95 Explorer's file-listing,
- just press [F5] to refresh its display. Very often, an item you
- thought wasn't there will magically appear!
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- After running the self-extractor COELINST by double-clicking
- on it, simply drag the new-born COELI.EXE Program object from
- Explorer's main window onto the desktop, and a shortcut should
- create itself there with Coeli's own icon. If the correct icon
- doesn't appear, right-click on the new desktop MS DOS icon,
- select Properties, Change Icon, then Browse, choosing the
- object called Coeli.ico from your Coeli-3 folder.
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- While you're about it, go to the Memory tab and ensure 'Auto'
- is visible in all the selection boxes. Check out the Screen
- tab at the same time: Coeli should run as a full screen
- application. Under Program - Advanced, the following boxes
- should have ticks in them:
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- 'Prevent MS DOS-based programs from detecting Windows' and
- 'Suggest MS-DOS mode as necessary'
- 'Close on exit' should always be enabled.
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- When you run Coeli for the first time, please make sure you
- maximise all DOS windows that appear (use the expansion icon
- in the window's toolbar to get into full-screen console mode,
- with no window borders).
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- If problems occur the first time round under Win 95, take note
- of the resulting error messages, and then start fiddling
- around with the Properties settings until you begin to get
- positive results. The most likely cause of faults will be
- failure to install a working VESA driver...
-
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- We recommend that you glance at the manual before proceeding
- further, either the Windows Write version (COELI.WRI), but
- preferably the Ascii version (COELI.TXT).
-
- For example, to access COELI.TXT from Windows, just
- double-click on it under File Manager and it will be displayed
- in Notepad. In Windows 95, simply drag and drop it onto the
- desktop Notepad icon.
-
- To read the same file under DOS, enter the following at the
- DOS prompt:
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- TYPE COELI.TXT |MORE
-
-
- The complete Coeli package contains a number of text files,
- all designed to help you get started with the minimum of fuss.
- Have a browse through any item with the .TXT or .DOC extension
- if you've the time. There is even a HELP-ME!.DOC for VESA
- problems. Note that in this case, the DOC suffix does not
- denote a Microsoft Word(TM) document, but is there simply to
- distinguish files external to the 'inner' archive. All such
- documents are pure PC ASCII (text).
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- Please make a backup copy of your distribution disk so that,
- if anything goes wrong, you can simply repeat the above
- process and try again.
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- If you have serious installation problems, do not hesitate to
- get in touch.
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-
- Roger Hughes
- Swimming Elk Software
- Manskiventie 1031
- 16790 Manskivi
- Finland
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- E-mail: Swimming.Elk@sci.fi
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- http://www.sci.fi/~elk
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/coeli/homepage.htm
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