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The Silicon Frog, Inc. │
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John Hancock 3.0 │
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Installation and INSTALL Program │
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Version 1.0 │
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(c) 1992 The Silicon Frog, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Table of contents
Introduction...............................................1
Installing and viewing the JH3 shows.......................1
JH3 Files and Directories..................................2
Visual JH3 Summary.....................................3
Preliminary tasks..........................................3
Registered JH2 Users.......................................4
The INSTALL Program........................................4
Starting INSTALL.......................................5
The Tag Directory......................................5
Video Adapter Type.....................................5
Configuration File.....................................6
Erasing Distribution Files.............................6
The JH3 Environment Variable...........................6
I don't like to clutter my PATH........................8
Installing Documentation Files.............................8
Adding Titles to your Tagfiles.............................9
Mail Reader Installation..................................10
Sparkware's DeLuxe²...................................10
MegaReader............................................11
Speed Read v1.0 and later.............................11
Jabber 1.0 and later..................................12
EZ-Reader v1.2x and later.............................12
SLMR v2.xx and OLX v2.xx..............................13
Method #1.........................................13
Method #2.........................................13
KingQWK v1.00 and later...............................14
JH3 Installation 1
Introduction
Installing John Hancock release 3.0 is a simple task which
should only have to be performed once - although there are
exceptions to this rule:
1. You experienced some severe hardware problem (e.g., a
disk crash, with no backup).
2. Your hardware configuration (esp. video) has changed and
you need a new JH30.CFG file.
2. You are an unregistered user and JH3 started nagging
after you used the program 30 days and more than 250
times, and you would like to continue to use JH3 another
30 days and 250 times without any nagging. This
alternative is much less honorable than registering John
Hancock.
3. You are an unregistered user, you tried to defeat JH3's
nagware logic, JH3 found out about it, and it started
nagging you unmercifully.
Installing and viewing the JH3 shows
The JH3 show files are in the JH3-4OF4.ZIP distribution
file. You should install the shows and view the JH3
Installation show *BEFORE* you install JH3 on your system:
1. Create a temporary JH3SHOW directory on your hard disk.
2. unZIP the JH3-3OF4.ZIP file to that directory.
3. Type SHOW2<Enter> at the DOS prompt.
4. Select the JH3 Installation show from the show selection
menu.
Once you have installed JH3 successfully, you may view the
JH3 and BONUS shows to familiarize yourself with John
Hancock as well as the FANTASTIC!!! bonuses you get when you
register it. Once you have viewed the shows, feel free to
erase all the files in the JH3SHOWS directory and remove the
directory from the drive.
The shows' special effects' timing is based on the speed of
your computer. On very fast machines (e.g., 386/486) with
fast video adapters, some of the screen transition effects
may be difficult to notice. One way to address this problem
is to slow down your processor's clock. Most recent
machines feature a "Turbo" switch or a keyboard command
(e.g., Ctl-Alt-+ or Ctl-Alt-Minus) which lets you toggle
JH3 Installation 2
between low and high processor speeds. Switching to the
lower speed may slow down the show program enough to let you
enjoy these wonderful and often spectacular effects, if I
say so myself.
JH3 Files and Directories
JH3 requires a number of files to operate. Configuration
and program files are kept in the main JH3 directory. User-
modifiable data files (tagfiles, tune files, and frame
files) are kept in the tagfile directory.
The main JH3 directory is pointed to by the JH3 DOS
environment variable, which you will add to your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file (do NOT do it now!). In turn, the
JH30.CFG configuration stored in the main JH3 directory
points to the tagfile directory. Note that your JH3
directory and your tagfile directory may be one and the same
- many existing JH users keep their tagfiles in a separate
directory; JH3 was designed to accommodate such an existing
setup.
The JH3 and tagfile directories may have any name you wish,
but we recommend using the name "JH3" since it will make
following the installation steps that much easier. However,
you could install JH3 in a directory called LOTUS, and the
data files in another called DBASE, just to fool innocent
bystanders such as your boss or your 10-year-old son who
know that LOTUS and DBASE are no fun at all (Heaven forbid
your 10-year-old gets his/her hands on the JH3CFG program
and starts playing with your JH3 color and cosmetic
configuration).
JH3 Installation 3
Visual JH3 Summary
The following diagram shows the relationship between system
components (the DOS PATH and JH3 environment variable), and
the various JH3 files and directories:
SET PATH=C:\JH3 >──────────────┐
SET JH3=C:\JH3 │
───┬── │
│ ┌ ──────┴─────
└─>C:\JH3│JH3 Program files
│JH3.KEY registered user key file
│Colorset files (???SET.???)
│JH30.CFG ───> C:\TAGFILES
└ ─────┬─────
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┌────────────────────────────┘
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