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- | APPENDIX |
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- CONTENTS
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- A.1 Installation
- A.2 Access From Any Directory
- A.3 Increasing Open Files Limit
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- A.1 INSTALLATION
-
- As explained in Section 1 of this manual, the Publisher is supplied with
- an automatic installation program which, when invoked, creates a new
- directory, named RUBICON, on the designated drive (or on Drive C if no
- drive is designated), and copies the Publisher into it in normal
- (non-compressed) form. The support files needed for the type or types of
- printer designated by the user are also copied into the RUBICON
- directory, along with the default style sheet and configuration file,
- SETUP.TAG.
-
- If you specify any printer installation option other than LaserJet-3 or
- PostScript, the installation program will create a further directory,
- named RUFONT, on the same drive, with one or more of the following
- sub-directories containing bitmap fonts: "120x72", "180x180" and/or
- "300x300". (These sub-directory names refer to the horizontal and
- vertical resolution, in dots per inch, of the fonts they contain.)
-
- There are really only three problems which can arise during the
- installation procedure.
-
- 1. The installation program will abort if it finds an existing
- directory on the designated drive named RUBICON. To solve this
- problem, any such directory should be renamed or moved to another
- drive, and the installation recommenced from the beginning. Before
- recommencing installation, any directory or files which the
- installation program copied to the designated drive before it
- aborted, should be removed or deleted.
-
- 2. The installation program will abort if it determines that there is
- insufficient disk space on the designated drive to accommodate the
- installation. If sufficient space is available on another drive,
- this problem may be solved by simply changing the drive designation
- for the installation. Otherwise, the only cure for this is to
- provide more disk space by the conventional methods of cleaning up
- the disk, deleting redundant and obsolete material, and archiving
- seldom-used material.
-
- 3. The installation program will terminate without installing the
- Publisher if you specify neither the Preview option nor at least
- one printer option. The message: "Error: No printer or preview
- has been selected." will appear.
-
- The automatic program provides all the installation most users require,
- but some users may find it necessary or convenient to perform additional
- installation steps, as described below, to provide access to the
- Publisher from any directory, or to reconfigure their MS-DOS system to
- permit more files to be open simultaneously.
-
- A.2 ACCESS FROM ANY DIRECTORY
-
- It is convenient to be able to use the Publisher from any directory,
- instead of having to change to the directory in which it was installed
- for each use. This may be achieved by: (1) inserting a PATH command in
- the file AUTOEXEC.BAT in the root directory, or amending the existing
- PATH command in that file, to designate the directory where the
- Publisher is located (normally C:\RUBICON) as part of the path the
- computer searches when given a command; and (2) inserting a SET command
- in the file AUTOEXEC.BAT in the root directory, to define the Publisher
- "environment variable" RUBICON equal to the directory (normally
- C:\RUBICON) where the Publisher's support files are located.
-
- The file AUTOEXEC.BAT can be accessed and edited using any suitable text
- editor. Typically, it will already contain a PATH command, like:
-
- PATH=C:\ABLE;C:\BAKER;C:\CHARLIE
-
- which can be amended to:
-
- PATH=C:\ABLE;C:\BAKER;C:\CHARLIE;C:\RUBICON
-
- If there is no existing PATH command, the line
-
- PATH=C:\RUBICON
-
- can be inserted into the file.
-
- A suitable SET command, which will normally be:
-
- SET RUBICON=C:\RUBICON\
-
- must also be added to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The new version of this
- file must be copied back to the root directory to replace the original
- version. IT WILL TAKE EFFECT THE NEXT TIME THE SYSTEM IS BOOTED.
-
-
- If there is no file AUTOEXEC.BAT, one can be created by the usual method
- of file creation. A full explanation of the SET and PATH commands and
- the function of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file will be found in your operating
- system (MS-DOS) manual.
-
- A.3 INCREASING OPEN FILES LIMIT
-
- For certain types of document, the Publisher may require as many as 10
- files to be open simultaneously. MS-DOS permits only 8 files to be open
- simultaneously, unless it has been configured to permit a larger number.
- Fortunately, the configuration procedure is simple.
-
- You can configure your MS-DOS system to permit 10 files to be open
- simultaneously by ensuring that the root directory of the system disk
- contains a file named CONFIG.SYS which contains the line
-
- FILES="n"
-
- where "n" is an integer (whole number) between 10 and 255. The file
- CONFIG.SYS can be created (if it is not already present the root
- directory) by the normal methods of file creation, and can be edited
- using any suitable editor. If the CONFIG.SYS file already exists, it may
- already contain a FILES command. If such a command specifies a number
- less than 10, it should be amended to specify a larger number. If the
- CONFIG.SYS file contains no FILES command, a new line such as
-
- FILES=12
-
- should be inserted.
-