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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR BIBBASE 1.0 (August, 1991)
-
- Copy the three .DOC files to a subdirectory other than the one
- where your WordPerfect macros are stored (or leave them on the
- floppy disk if you do not know how to copy them to your hard
- drive, or if your hard drive is already crowded). Copy all the
- .WPM files (the WordPerfect macros) to the hard disk directory
- where your WordPerfect macros and keyboards presently reside.
- You can find that location out by pressing Shift-F1,7,3 from
- inside WordPerfect.
-
- 1. If no directory is yet specified for your macros, you should
- create one so that your main WP directory does not get cluttered
- with these dozens of macros. You can create a new directory
- from inside WordPerfect with the F5,7 (List files) command, or
- you can do it at the DOS level with the Make Directory command.
- You should specify at Shift-F1,7,3 the name of that directory,
- and you should move any WordPerfect macros you already have on
- your hard disk into the specified directory as well, ensuring as
- you do that you don't have any with the same names as those that
- came on the BIBBASE floppy disk. (ALTD.WPM can change names
- without affecting performance. Almost all the others are tied to
- menuing assignments.)
-
- 2. If you already use WordPerfect macros and you have specified
- a directory for macros and keyboards already, copy the macros
- into that directory, ensuring as you do that you don't have any
- with the same names as those that came on the BIBBASE floppy
- disk.
-
- 3. This file is stored in ASCII code, but the CHART.DOC and the
- two MANUAL.DOC files are stored in WordPerfect 5.0 format. You
- can print them from within WordPerfect if you wish. There is no
- need to store the .DOC files on your hard disk long term,
- although it does work fine on line, if you prefer that to paper
- and your computer can handle it. You may want to combine the two
- manual.doc files if you have the capacity and want it on line.
-
-
- 4. Eventually, you may want to delete some of the J2a,b,c,
- J6a,b,c, P2a,b,c, and P8a,b,c macros from your hard disk as well,
- but that will be much later, when you settle on what formats you
- want to export records to. It is best at this point to copy the
- entire contents of the Floppy\macros directory onto the hard
- disk.
-
- 5. Database software varies in sophistication, quality, price
- and suitability for academic work. This one was designed from
- the start with book and article references in view. It works
- flawlessly with the records for 99+% of the books and articles I
- look at, scan, read, and note in my daily work. BIBBASE is not
- free software. It is user-supported shareware. If you decide
- BIBBASE is useful for your papers and research, and you continue
- to use it beyond a month or so, please send $15 US or Cdn. to
- Dr. Ken Badley at 4400 - 4th. Ave., Regina, SK Canada S4T 0H8.
- Thank you kindly. If you paid a shareware distributor a fee
- for this program, then you paid only for copying and distribution
- of the diskette; the fee included no author royalties. Shareware
- means using my program for a few weeks so that you can decide if
- you want it; it does not mean using it forever. My only income
- from this work comes directly from those users who register.
- Thank you again for registering. If you like, use the REGISTER
- form that appears on this diskette. U.S. users: the money will
- get here; a postal money order, bank money order, or even a bank
- cheque will work. As I note on the registration form, for a
- $30.00 registration, I will send you a copy of BIBBASE 2.0 when
- it is released. Please send an address unlikely to change if you
- choose this option.
-
- 6. Guarantee. At the price, sorry but there is none. I cannot
- guarantee this software to suit any of your needs or solve any of
- your problems. At the price, I cannot offer support either. I
- do use it myself every working day and will continue to make
- improvements to it. I plan to submit an upgraded version to
- shareware distributors and to national bulletin boards when I
- have made a sufficient number of improvements to warrant doing
- so - likely in mid-1993. If you become a registered user of this
- version, I welcome you to download or buy a copy of the next
- version and use it without registering again and without a hint
- of guilt. If you make changes to any of the macros, I would be
- happy to see them on disk or printed, but I can offer only a
- mention in the macro itself if I use the changes you suggest.
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