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- Registration
-
- Need custom clipart for use in a drawing or
- presentation program? ClpMap may be your answer. ClpMap,
- however, is not free software. As a shareware product, you
- are invited to copy and try ClpMap without charge, and to
- copy and freely distribute ClpMap in its original form to
- other PC users. If, after evaluating ClpMap, you wish to
- continue using this software on your system, it will be
- necessary to become a registered owner. To register for
- ClpMap, simply print the registration form by printing the
- file register.doc (use the DOS command COPY REGISTER.DOC PRN)
- and follow directions on this file. The form can also be printed
- after installation of ClpMap by opening ClpMap and selecting
- HELP then REGISTER from its main menu and following directions.
-
- Hardware requirements
-
- ClpMap requires a PC or compatible computer running
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later. It will run on almost any
- PC with a hard disk and compatible with Windows. In
- general, however, a fast higher end machine (80386 or better
- with a math coprocessor and at least 2 Meg RAM) is
- recommended is order to speed up map generation. With a
- slower machine, and especially without a math coprocessor,
- generation of the map data can be very slow, especially for
- a satellite view at full resolution.
-
- Details of the world database
-
- ClpMap uses an extremely detailed world database called
- the Micro World Data Bank II (MWDBII). This database was
- placed in the public domain by Fred Pospeschil and Antonio
- Riveria and was derived by them from a much larger database
- created by the CIA and distributed by the US Department of
- Commerce for a cost of $660.
-
- The database distributed with ClpMap is separated into
- six separate files including data for coast lines, islands,
- lakes, rivers, country boundaries and state boundaries (USA
- only). It is identical with that placed in the public
- domain except that an extraneous curve found in the states
- data file has been eliminated (the curve appeared to define
- an air route into Berlin), and several curves in the lakes
- database were actually islands in the extreme northern
- regions of Canada and were moved to the islands database
- file. Also, the two files distributed with MWDBII
- containing coast line data have been combined into a single
- file.
-
- ClpMap is distributed both with and without its
- database. If you have the original MWDBII data files you do
- not need the ClpMap database. The program instdata.exe,
- distributed with ClpMap, will modify the original MWDBII files
- so that they are identical with those distributed with ClpMap.
-
- Installation
-
- The version of ClpMap distributed through the BBS includes
- the program file clpm1_0.zip and the data files clpdt1.zip and
- clpdt2.zip. If you do not have the original MWDBII data files,
- you must download the files clpdt1.zip and clpdt2.zip.
-
- Copy all *.zip files to a subdirectory on your hard disk and
- decompress them using pkunzip. After decompression, the following
- files should exist.
-
- Program Files:
-
- file_id.diz Included with each *.zip file to identify
- its contents.
-
- clpmap.exe Windows executable program file.
-
- clpmap.hlp Program help file.
-
- register.hlp Help file for shareware registration.
-
- clpmap.doc On disk version of the program documentation.
-
- readme Contains directions for getting started
- and last minute changes to the documentation.
-
- register.doc Contains registration form. Print out
- this file and follow directions to
- become a registered user of ClpMap.
-
- instdata.exe DOS utility to install database. This
- utility will convert the original MWDBII
- database files for use with ClpMap.
-
- Database Files:
-
- coast.pnt Contains data representing coast lines.
-
- country.pnt Contains country boundaries.
-
- state.pnt Contains state boundaries.
-
- island.pnt Islands data.
-
- lake.pnt Lakes data.
-
- river.pnt Rivers data.
-
- Getting started
-
- If the original MWDBII data files are being used, copy
- the files coast1.pnt, coast2.pnt, country.pnt, state.pnt,
- island.pnt lake.pnt and river.pnt into the ClpMap subdirectory
- and run the utility instdata.exe to convert them for use
- by ClpMap. After running this utility, the ClpMap subdirectory
- should contain all of the files listed above.
-
- To install ClpMap into a Windows program group, open
- windows then open the desired group and select File then New
- from the Program Manager's main menu. Select Program Item then
- enter the path name to the file clpmap.exe under Command Line.
-
- Once selection is complete and the dialog is closed by
- selecting OK, an icon resembling a world globe will appear.
- ClpMap can now be started by double clicking on this icon.
- ClpMap is designed to be intuitive to operate and includes a
- help system which should make it straight forward to learn
- simply through experimentation. For additional help, print
- the clpmap.doc file by using the command COPY CLPMAP.DOC PRN.
-