================================================================= Microsoft Product Support Services ViewNote (Text File) VW006: WINDOWS 3.1 AND SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS 12/92 ================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT AND ANY SOFTWARE THAT MAY ACCOMPANY THIS DOCUMENT (collectively referred to as a ViewNote) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The user assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and the use of this ViewNote. This ViewNote may be copied and distributed subject to the following conditions: 1) If software is included, all files on the disk(s) must be copied without modification (the MS-DOS [R] utility diskcopy is appropriate for this purpose); 2) All components of this ViewNote must be distributed together; and 3) This ViewNote may not be distributed for profit. Copyright (C) 1992 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks, and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. ================================================================= Summary ------- ViewNotes are online documents designed to answer questions you may have about Microsoft Windows-based products. To read this ViewNote in Microsoft Multimedia Viewer, a program that allows you to read .MVB files (online Viewer documents), follow the instructions below. ViewNotes require Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.0 or later. FILES THAT MUST BE DOWNLOADED ----------------------------- This ViewNote requires the following: ViewNote Files - VW006.MVB (the ViewNote) - VW006.IND (the ViewNote index) Viewer Files - MMVIEW.EXE (Microsoft Multimedia Viewer) - FTUI.DLL (Viewer file for full-text search) - FTENGINE.DLL (Viewer file for full-text search) - MVAPI.DLL (Viewer file for full-text search) INSTALLATION ------------ Note: If you already have Microsoft Viewer (MMVIEW.EXE) installed in your VIEWNOTE directory, skip to step 2. To install the Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL) and the files for this ViewNote (VW006.MVB and VW006.IND), do the following: Note: To save hard-disk space, you may prefer to copy this ViewNote to a high-density floppy disk and run the ViewNote from the floppy disk rather than running the ViewNote from your hard disk). If this is the case, copy MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, FTENGINE.DLL, VW006.MVB, and VW006.IND files to a floppy disk instead of to your VIEWNOTE directory. 1. If you do not have a VIEWNOTE directory set up with MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL located in the directory, do the following to install a read-only version of Viewer: a. Create a directory by choosing Create Directory from the File menu in File Manager, typing "viewnote" (without the quotation marks) in the Name box, and choosing the OK button. b. Download the Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL) from your bulletin board service (for example, from the Microsoft Download Service [MSDL], OnLine, CompuServe, or GEnie). These Viewer files can be obtained from the Software/Data Library on CompuServe, OnLine, and GEnie by searching for the word MMVIEW or S13434. Note that MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL are compressed in the file MMVIEW.ZIP on CompuServe, OnLine, and GEnie. After the file has been downloaded, you must decompress the file using the PKware PKUNZIP utility. These Viewer files can also be downloaded through the MSDL at (206) 936-6735. The Viewer files are located in the Windows 3.1 file area and are in the self-extracting file MMVIEWER.EXE. 2. Follow the instructions below. For example, if you obtained Viewer from MSDL, follow the instructions under the "MSDL Users" heading. MSDL Users ---------- After you have downloaded MMVIEWER.EXE, move it to your VIEWNOTE directory or floppy disk. Because this file is compressed, it needs to be expanded by typing the name of the file (MMVIEWER) at an MS-DOS command prompt. (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL are the expanded Viewer files used to read ViewNotes.) Also, move VW006.MVB (the ViewNote) and VW006.IND to your VIEWNOTE directory or floppy disk: a. In File Manager, select the files you want to move. b. From the File menu, choose Move. c. In the To text box, enter the path to the VIEWNOTE directory you created in step 1a. d. Choose the OK button. OnLine, CompuServe, GEnie Users ------------------------------- After you have downloaded MMVIEW.ZIP (and decompressed it if you are using OnLine, CompuServe, or GEnie), move the decompressed Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL), VW006.IND, and VW006.MVB (the ViewNote) to your VIEWNOTE directory or floppy disk: a. In File Manager, select the files you want to move. b. From the File menu, choose Move. c. In the To text box, enter the path to the VIEWNOTE directory you created in step 1a. d. Choose the OK button. READING THIS VIEWNOTE --------------------- To read the "Windows 3.1 and Serial Communications" ViewNote, do the following: 1. After installing the Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL), VW006.MVB, and VW006.IND using the instructions above, run Windows File Manager. 2. If you are running "Windows 3.1 and Serial Communications" from your hard disk, open the directory where Viewer, VW006.MVB, and VW006.IND reside (the VIEWNOTE directory if you followed the directions above) and double-click VW006.MVB. If you are using a keyboard, select VW006.MVB and press ENTER. -or- If you are running "Windows 3.1 and Serial Communications" from a floppy disk, run MMVIEW.EXE, choose Open from the File menu in Viewer, select VW006.MVB, and choose the OK button. SETTING UP A VIEWER ICON ------------------------ If you set up a Viewer icon, you can run Viewer by choosing the icon, and then load the ViewNote by choosing Open from the File menu in Viewer, and selecting VW006.MVB from the VIEWNOTE directory. To set up a ViewNote icon, create a program item for Viewer. For information about creating a program item, see pages 78-81 of the "Microsoft Windows User's Guide" for Windows version 3.1 and pages 89-91 of the "Microsoft Windows User's Guide" for version 3.0.