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Installation of Tropical Reader for Windows

Before you start the installation procedure, be sure you have the 'vbrun300.dll' 
file in your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory. We have choosen not to include this file,
as 90% of users already have dozens of copies of this file. If you don't have
it, check your local BBS or Internet FTP site.

1. Unzip the ZIP file to a temporary directory on your harddisk.

2. Using the file manager, double-click 'setup.exe'.

3. The program installs itself. The program will automatically replace
   existing *.DLL and *.VBX files in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory IF
   the existing version is older than the one that comes with
   Tropical Reader for Windows. It checks the version number of the
   files during installation.

   Necessary Program Groups will be created by the program.

If you want to manually install the program, you can use the EXPAND.EXE
program that comes with Windows 3.1 from the DOS prompt.

   The syntax is:
	expand  filename.dl_ c:\windows\system\filename.dll

These are the necessary files you must install before using Tropical Reader:

Source File           Copy to
-----------           ---------------------------
TROPREAD.IN_          TROPREAD.INI in TR Program Directory 
TROPREAD.HL_          TROPREAD.HLP in TR Program Directory 
TROPREAD.EX_          TROPREAD.EXE in TR Program Directory 
TROPREAD.PI_          TROPREAD.PIF in TR Program Directory
MBF2IEEE.DL_          MBF2IEEE.DLL in TR Program Directory 
ZDLL20B.DL_           ZDLL20B.DLL  in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
ZDLL20A.DL_           ZDLL20A.DLL  in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
UZDLL20.DL_           UZDLL20.DLL  in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
VBDB300.DL_           VBDB300.DLL  in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
THREED.VB_            THREED.VBX   in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
NETCODE.VB_           NETCODE.VBX  in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
NETCODE.LIC           NETCODE.LIC  in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
MSOUTLIN.VB_          MSOUTLIN.VBX in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
MSAJT200.DL_          MSAJT200.DLL in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
MSAJT112.DL_          MSAJT112.DLL in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
MSABC110.DL_          MDABC110.DLL in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
MMSYSTEM.DL_          MMSYSTEM.DLL in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
CTL3D.DL_             CTL3D.DLL    in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory
CMDIALOG.VB_          CMDIALOG.VBX in /WINDOWS/SYSTEM Directory

The installation program will only replace identical files where the 
internal version number of the existing file (not the date) is older
than the installation file. All supplementary files are the latest
available versions.

Future Upgrades:
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The latest build of Tropical Reader for Windows (with reported bug
fix'es) will be available from http://taygate.cl.au.ac.th/web/miron/
and later from our own WEB-site (to be announced shortly). If you
have already installed the program, you just need to download the
upgrade files and replace old files with the newer ones.