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	Installing Above & Beyond 1.0 is Easy

Summary of Steps:

1. Run A:INSTALL
2. Add a Program Item (seen as an icon) 
3. Start Above & Beyond
4. Get HELP by pressing Alt+H from Above & Beyond

Details:

The installation process allows you to select where 
you would like to put Above & Beyond files. The 
directory you name will be created if it doesn't already 
exist, and the files will be copied from the diskette(s) 
to this target directory. 

Step 1:	Insert the Above & Beyond diskette into drive A:. 
From the Windows Program Manager, Select Run from the 
File pull-down menu and type:

		A:INSTALL

Step 2:  Create a program item (an icon) in the program 
group of your choice, eg. Windows Applications. From 
the Program Manager, select File, and choose New. 
Select Program Item. As a description, you might type 
in "Above & Beyond", and for the command line, state 
the path and program file, eg. c:\ab\AB.exe.


You can also specify a datafile name, eg. 

	c:\ab\AB.EXE HOWARD

The extension will be assumed as .PAK. When you 
omit the datafile name, the name used is 
TIMEDATA.pak by default. 

Step 3: Start Above & Beyond by selecting the icon 
you have created and either pressing Enter, or 
double-clicking with the mouse.


Installing Above & Beyond for a LAN Workgroup

Although you can install the program file AB.exe in a 
shareable directory on the server, and have your 
workstations access it there, it will run faster if 
installed locally. This is because Windows will not 
have to repeatedly access the server hard drive to read 
parts of the program code into memory. If installed on 
the local workstation, Above & Beyond will not only load 
quicker, but it will also operate at a faster, more 
responsive pace. This is true for all Windows 
applications. 

The installation is the same as described above in the 
section "Installing Above & Beyond" with one exception. 
You will want to have datafiles reside on the server's 
hard drive. It's recommended you designate an individual 
directory for each user. This will keep .log files 
(completed items are tracked in these files) for each 
user from being combined.


When you run Above & Beyond, if the directory and/or 
file you specify does not yet exist it will 
automatically be created for you.

Suppose you have four users, Bill, Karen, Cindy, and 
Howard. Drive J: is the name of your server drive. 
Your command lines on various workstations could be 
as follows:

Bill's workstation has this command line:		
c:\ab\AB.exe  j:\Bill\Bill

Karen's workstation has this command line:		
c:\ab\AB.exe  j:\Karen\Karen

Cindy's workstation has this command line:		
c:\ab\AB.exe  j:\Cindy\Cindy

Howard's workstation has this command line:	
c:\ab\AB.exe  j:\Howard\Howard