OPOOL FOR WINDOWS ver. 3.0 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for automatic and manual illustration and for upgrading from ver. 2.5. PLEASE NOTE: WINDOWS 3.1 OR HIGHER REQUIRED! CAUTION: AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION WILL OVERWRITE ANY EXISTING FILES IN THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY OF THE SAME NAME. IF YOU HAVE AN NFLSCHED.DTW FILE WITH 1995 RESULTS, MAKE A BACKUP COPY, THEN RECOPY IT TO THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY UNDER ITS ORIGINAL NAME AFTER INSTALLATION. OTHERWISE THE 1995 RESULTS YOU ENTERED WILL BE LOST. NOTE: BOTH NFLSCHED.DTW AND PLAYERS.DTW HAVE NEW FORMATS FOR VERSION 2.5 AND LATER. ATTEMPTING TO USE AN NFLSCHED FILE WITH AN OLDER FORMAT WILL PRODUCE AN ERROR MESSAGE. OPOOL/WIN 3.0 WILL GIVE YOU THE OPTION OF AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTING AN OLDER PLAYERS.DTW FILE TO THE NEW FORMAT. ====================================================== INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS USING INSTALL.EXE (see below for manual installation) NOTE: If you receive the program as a zipped or self- extracting zipped file, be sure to extract the files listed below to an empty disk or directory before following the installation instructions. 1. If you have the program on a floppy disk, make sure you are running Windows. Insert the disk in Drive A: or Drive B: and launch INSTALL.EXE by choosing RUN from the Windows Program Manager or by double- clicking on the file name INSTALL.EXE in a File Manager window. The files on the floppy disk should include: OPOOLW.EXE NFLSCHED.DTW OPOOLW.INI OPOOL30.HLP CTL3DV2.DLL INSTALL.EXE OPICKS.EXE OPICKS.HLP README30.TXT REGISTER.TXT INSTALL.TXT (This file) If you have the OPWIN30.ZIP or OPWIN30.EXE zipped files instead of a floppy, EXTRACT the zipped files to an empty directory on your hard disk, then launch INSTALL.EXE as above. The opening screen of the installation program has a menu with three top-level choices. The File menu is for exiting the installation program. The Help menu offers on-line installation instructions similar to these and an About box. Choose Install from the menu to begin installation. 2. In the dialog box that appears when the install program begins, type your name in the space provided, if the name is not already present. You cannot continue installation without an entry in the name box. An unregistered version will show a dummy registration number of 'X-00000000' in the other box. If you have a registered version, your actual registration number will appear. When done, click the OK button, or click the Cancel button to quit the installation program. 3. After you have entered your name and registration number, a dialog box will prompt you for the source and destination directories for OPOOL/Win. The default source is the directory from which you are running the INSTALL.EXE program, and this should always be the same as the location of the other necessary files. The default destination is C:\OPOOLW. Change the destination to install the program in a different directory. If the specified destination directory does not exist on your hard drive, INSTALL.EXE will ask you if you want to create the destination directory and, if you answer Yes, will create it for you. When done specifying (or confirming) the source and desination paths, click OK to proceed, or click Cancel to quit. 4. Unlike earlier releases of OPOOL/Win prior to version 2.5, OPOOL/Win Version 3.0 will NOT convert OPOOL/DOS PLAYERS.DAT files to OPOOL/Win format. OPOOL/DOS is no longer distributed or supported. NOTE: The file OPOOLW.INI will be copied to your Windows directory, not the specified destination path. The file ctl3dv2.dll will be copied to your Windows System directory, but only if some version of the DLL does not already exist there (i.e., install.exe will NOT overwrite an exisiting ctl3dv2.dll). ================================================================= Install OPOOL/WIN manually as follows (see above for installation using INSTALL.EXE): 1. Create a separate directory on your hard disk. The default should be C:\OPOOLW, but you can use any name DOS will accept. 2. Copy OPWIN30.ZIP (or the self-extracting version, OPWIN30.EXE) to the new directory and extract the files. Essential files for running OPOOL/WIN are OPOOLW.EXE, CTL3DV2.DLL, and NFLSCHED.DTW. IF AND ONLY IF your Windows System Directory (usually C:\Windows\System) does not contain CTL3DV2.DLL, move that file to your Windows System directory. PLAYERS.DTW, not distributed with the program, is also required. You must either build this file yourself or convert your existing file to OPOOL/WIN ver. 2.5/3.0 format (see item 3 below). The OPOOLW.INI file is very important, and should be copied to your Windows directory (usually C:\WINDOWS), but you can run the program without it. Since there is no printed manual, the on-line help file, OPOOLHLP.HLP is useful, though not essential. 3. If you have an existing players.dtw file: OPOOL/WIN ver. 3.0 will detect a players.dtw file from versions earlier than 2.5 and give you the chance to convert it to the present format. If you choose to convert, all player names, locations, and other identifying data will be preserved. Since no player picks from earlier seasons are used by ver. 3.0, none is preserved or converted. If you have no existing players.dtw file: OPOOL/WIN will create an empty PLAYERS.DTW file for you in your OPOOL/WIN directory the first time you run OPOOLW.EXE. The file created in this way will have no players in it. Select Roster Maintenance from the OPOOL/WIN Main Menu and select "Add/Edit Players" from the roster menu that pops up. Enter the requested information for each player in your pool. ====================================================== To upgrade your OPOOL/Win ver. 2.5: 1. Copy OPOOLW.EXE, ver. 3.0, over your existing working copy of ver. 2.5. 2. Copy OPOOL30.HLP to your OPOOL/Win directory (you may delete OPOOLHLP.HLP, which was used by versions 2.5 and earlier. ====================================================== RGP Arlington, Virginia August 28, 1995