Macros Installation Reinstallation Setup Uninstall License Info DESCRIBE IT Apoplexy Software Co. PO. BOX 602 Occidental CA. 95465 Fax 707-874-3922 Compuserve #72640,120 Version 3.00 General Note: Describe It will not affect any of your files. The information you enter is saved to a proprietary Data Base. Note: The following examples are based on your choice of \dscribit as the directory you install DESCRIBE IT into on your hard drive. It is best to choose this name but not required. Macros: Macros and icons are included for AmiPro and Wordperfect for Windows that let DESCRIBE IT run from their tool bars. See the text file Macros.txt in your \dscribit directory. Installation: Using Install.exe From Floppy Disk: Insert disk in floppy drive a: or b:. Start Windows. From the Program Manager "File" menu select "Run".In the edit box type a:\install or b:\install. DESCRIBE IT INSTALL will start. In the "Source Path:" edit box type either a:\ or b:\, i.e.the drive that the disk is in. In the "Destination Path:" edit box type the drive and directory you want DESCRIBE IT to be in on your hard drive. Hit the enter key or click the "Install" button. Example destination path: c:\dscribit HINT: do not put it in your Windows directory. Follow item 7. below to create an icon for DESCRIBE IT. If you downloaded DESCRIBE IT: Decompress the zipped file into a temporary directory. The temporary directory should be different from your permanent directory. Start Windows. From the Program Manager "File" menu type the drive and directory name of the temporary directory followed by \install.In the "Source Path:" edit box type the temporary directory name. Choose and enter your "Destination Path: as above and hit enter or click the "Install" button.When installation is complete you can delete the temporary directory. Follow item 7. below to create an icon for DESCRIBE IT. Manual Installation: 1. Make a directory on any local, not network, hard drive and name it Dscribit. example; md c:\dscribit hit "Enter" [DESCRIBE IT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED ON ANY NETWORKS] 2. Copy all files from the floppy to the directory made in step 1. DOS example; copy b:*.* c:\dscribit Hit the "Enter" key. 3. Start Windows. 4. Open the "win.ini" file in your "Windows" directory with Windows NotePad. 5. Add the following 2 lines to the end of your win.ini file in your Windows directory. Type them exactly as shown except for the drive letter which will be the one you copied all files to above in step 2. example: [DESCRIBE IT] HomeDirectory=c:\dscribit Close and Save the win.ini file. 6.Open one of the files you copied "X":\dscribit\dscribit.ini in NotePad, where "X" = the drive you chose in step 2. Change the following lines: DefDrive=[-c-] ;change "c" to the drive in step 1. DefDirectory=win ;change "win" to any valid directory on the step 1 drive. HomeDirectory=c:\dscribit ;change to the path in step 1. Validate=No ;leave alone. Icon=Yes ;leave alone. IconLocation=LR ;leave alone. ToolsNumber=1 ;leave alone. RegisteredTo= ;leave alone. ToolName1=Notepad ;leave alone. ToolExe1=c:\win\notepad.exe ;change to the correct path to notepad.exe in your Windows directory. Close and save this file. 7.In Windows Program Manager Select a Group in which you want to put the icon for Describe It. Open this group and select"New" from the File Menu. Select the "Program Item" radio button. Click the "OK"Button. In the Program Item Properties Dialog box enter "Describe It" in the description edit box. Enter the path to dscribit.exe in "Command Line" edit box as in step 2 above. example from above: c:\dscribit\dscribit.exe 8.You're Done. Files list: Critical files: dscribit.exe dscribit.ini dscribit.hlp Non Critical files: read1st.txt this document icon.exe makes icon display last file name regform.txt registration form dscrbami.bmp bitmap for amipro3.0 toolbar dscribit.smm macro for amipro3.0 icon dscribit.wcm macro for word prefect for windows macros.txt directions for installation of macros install.exe the automatic installation program These files should be in your \dscribit directory. Un-install: 1.Delete the directory and all files you installed above. 2.With Windows NotePad delete the 2 lines you entered above in line 5 of the win.ini file. 3.Click the icon in the group you put DESCRIBE IT in, so that it is highlighted. Select "Delete" from the "File" main menu. 3.You're Done. *** IMPORTANT*** Reinstallation or Moving the DESCRIBE IT: To reinstall DESCRIBE IT in the same directory using "install.exe", you must delete ONLY files listed above but NOT "dscribit.ini" and NOT data files with a ".DSC" extension.Save or move the file "dscribit.ini" to any other directory.Use "install.exe" to reinstall the above files. Delete the new "dscribit.ini" file and copy the old one you saved back in its place. If you don't use this procedure you will lose your current configuration and if registered have to enter your registration number again. DO NOT delete any ".DSC" files in the existing directory or you will lose all previously saved keywords and descriptions. Saving Data Files: DESCRIBE IT has its own proprietary data base files stored in the directory you created in step 1. These files are named Xcdscfnm.dsc, Xdsckey.dsc, and Xcdsctxt.dsc, where X represents each hard drive on your system. For example cdsckey.dsc is the keyword table for the c: hard drive. To SAVE your descriptions these files MUST NOT BE DELETED, or you will lose all your current descriptions. When moving DESCRIBE IT you must move these files with the program. DESCRIBE IT uses the text you entered in the Win.ini file in step 5 to find these data base files. If the files are not present DESCRIBE IT makes new ones. Archiving Your Data Files: To save all your descriptions when you archive files, include the Data Base files mentioned above in the back up. If these files are backed up to tape or to disk you will not lose your descriptions and keywords. DISCLAIMER and LICENSE AGREEMENT Users of DESCRIBE IT must accept this disclaimer of warranty: DESCRIBE IT is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse- quential, which may result from the use of DESCRIBE IT. DESCRIBE IT is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but do not give it away altered or as part of another system, without permission of the author. If you find this program useful and find that you are using DESCRIBE IT and continue to use DESCRIBE IT after the 21 day trial period, you must make a registration payment of $25.00 to Apoplexy Software Co. The $25.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. In other words, one copy for each computer must be registered. Commercial users of DESCRIBE IT must register and pay for their copies of DESCRIBE IT within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by con- tacting Apoplexy Software Co. Anyone distributing DESCRIBE IT for any kind of remuneration must contact Apoplexy Software Co. at the address above for authorization. Distributors may begin offering DESCRIBE IT immediately if remuneration is for the cost of media and overhead. In other words the price asked for DESCRIBE IT shall be typical of other shareware disks offered by distributors. Apoplexy Software must be notified of this distribution to insure that the latest version of DESCRIBE IT will be distributed. You are encouraged to pass a copy of DISCRIBE IT along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a registration number which will enable the extra features of DESCRIBE IT, and remove the shareware "nag screens". I want to thank Ronald Kagan of Anderson, CA for his many ideas and great help in testing DESCRIBE IT (Ron knows putters), and my wife Marna and daughters Rachel and Abbey for their command of the English language, beauty, and patience.