UUDEVIEW FOR WINDOWS INSTALLATION
                                       
   Note: In the following text, I will assume that both executables are
   in the directory d:\programm\uudeview. If you have them unarchived to
   a different directory, change the pathnames in the following text
   appropriately.
     
Understanding Launcher and Decoder

   The decoder was trivially ported from the DOS version, and it still
   awaits its options on the command line. If you run the Decoder in
   Windows, it will simply display a help text, because it has not found
   any command line options or files to decode. This is why the Decoder
   cannot run stand-alone. So the Launcher was designed to provide the
   user with a simple-to-use Windows interface on the front end, and feed
   the Decoder on the back end. This is why you will always start up the
   Launcher if you want to decode something, and therefore we will
   install only the Launcher within the Program Manager.
   
   However, there is an exception, a single case in which the Decoder can
   be started directly; this will be explained in the manual.
   
   Since recently, the Launcher is a little more than just a frontend to
   the decoder, since it now also has a built-in encoding engine. Again,
   the description how to encode can be found in the manual page.
   
Installation of the Launcher

   Installation of the Launcher is quite simple. You arrange the File
   Manager and the Program Manager so that they're both visible, and then
   drag the file "uulaunch.exe" from the File Manager to a program group
   of your choice within the Program Manager. The launcher's icon will
   appear in the group. To change its label, select this icon, press
   ALT-Enter and change the label.
   
   Now, please go again to the File Manager, and choose the Associate
   command from the File menu. This opens up a dialog box with two
   fields. The first field is named Files with Extension. Enter the text
   "UU" inside. You must then enter the fully specified path of the
   Decoder in the other field, like

   d:\programm\uudeview\uudv-win.exe

   If you don't want to type in all of the path, you can also click on
   the Browse button to select the Decoder from its subdirectory. Now,
   commit this dialog box by pressing the OK button.
   
   The last step to do is to tell the Launcher where to find the Decoder.
   To do this, start up the Launcher by double-clicking its icon in the
   Program Manager, and select Command from the Launcher's UUDeview
   menu. This opens a file dialog box. Browse to the directory where the
   decoder program resides, and double-click on uudv-win.exe (this is the
   only choice the menu accepts). The Launcher automatically saves the
   path to its initialization file.
   
   Now, the installation process is hopefully complete.
   
   
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   Last modified: Wed Oct 18 15:15:42 1995