RVINSTAL.TXT RptView (Report View) Installation Instructions 03/30/96 WELCOME RptView for Windows is a Report Viewer and Print system. RptView allow you to view, print, and extract information from reports generated from other systems and stored as ASCII files on your PC or network drives. Mainframe generated reports (IBM, UNIX) can be downloaded and processed. Reports generated from PC-based tools (such as dBase, Paradox) can also be printed to ASCII file and then accessed by RptView. RptView has the unique ability to set a page heading and lock it at the top of the viewing area. With RptView, you can scroll up and down in a report page and still be able to see the title and column headings. Report scrolling is fast because RptView builds it's own index of pages. Reports over 6,000 pages long have been accessed. RptView can Parse and Copy selected information for pasting into individual columns and rows of spreadsheet and database applications. This functionality it similiar to the commerical product Monarch. RptView is a SHAREWARE program. The shareware version can be freely distributed. DOCUMENTATION RptView comes with a standard Window's Help file and a user's manual. The user's manual is in Write format and is found in the file RVMANUAL.WRI GENERAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS You may want to install RptView on a server that serves many workstations or install directly to individual workstations. It has been my experience that most canned installation procedures usually do not install correctly to a central server. For that reason I have made the installation process manual. The process for either environment is fairly straight forward. The original installation file that you received may be in either the form of RVxxxxxx.EXE or RVxxxxxx.ZIP. The EXE version is a self-extracting zip file. The ZIP version requires that you use PKUNZIP version 2.04 or newer. Create a directory on any drive, copy the installation file to the directory and unzip the file. FILES There are two sets of files that you need to deal with in the installation process, runtime libraries and application libraries. Each of these will be dealt with under the categories of Server, Workstation and Mixed Installations. SERVER INSTALLATION The best environment is to place all libraries, runtime and executable, in one directory on each server. I would suggest that you call this directory RLZAPPS. This way the application program will be able to find all required runtime and DLL libraries when executed and would not require you to install the runtime libraries on each workstation. RptView was written in CA-REALIZER for Windows. If later you install additional REALIZER apps, I would suggest that you locate the executables all in one common directory. This way you will need to maintain only one set of runtime libraries and DLLs. REALIZER WILL NOT find runtime files placed in your server's "WINDOWS" or "SYSTEMS" directories. WORKSTATION INSTALLATION If you wish to install the full set of RptView files to each PC or Workstation you may use one of two methods. One Directory You can install on a PC the same way you would install on a server as described above. Separate Runtime and Application Directories 1. Into the "Windows" directory copy the following files: OBJ3D.DLL CABLE.DLL 2. Create a directory under your PC / Workstation "Windows" directory named RLZRUN20. 3. Copy into the RLZRUN20 directory the following file: RLZRUN20.RTS 4. Create a directory in any location named: RPTVIEW (or whatever name you would choose.) 5. Copy all remaining files into this directory. MIXED INSTALLATION If you like, you can install the runtime libraries and DLLs on each PC / Workstation as described in Separate Runtime Application Directories above and install the application files on your server under any directory name of your choosing. PROGRAM MANAGER GROUP AND ICON You will need to manually create a Program Item (Icon) in either an existing Program Manager Group or one you create. Please refer to your Windows manual for creating Progam Groups and Program Items. FIRST RUN OF RPTVIEW.EXE The first time the RPTVIEW.EXE is executed an INI file will be created in the directory that contains the RptView executable (RPTVIEW.EXE). Setting descriptions can be found in the RptView help file (RPTVIEW.HLP). TRUETYPE FONTS RptView includes two fonts named RPTVW and RPTVWPRT. They are TrueType, scalable-fixed fonts. When RptView is first started the default font is Courier New, which is the font supplied with Windows. The difference in these two fonts in basically in the width. If you use RPTVWPRT as the print font you should be able to print a 132 column report in portrait. Experiment with the fonts to see which you prefer for viewing and printing. To install RPTVW.TTF and RPTVWPRT.TTF go to Control Panel, Fonts and follow the steps for installing a new font. Edit the RPTVIEW.INI and change the entry as follows ViewFont=RptVw PrntFont=RptVwPrt Make sure these entries are spelled correctly. Windows will use a default font if it cannot find the one requested. The existing entries can be commented out as follows; ;ViewFont=Courier New ;PrntFont=Courier New TRIALING RptView Several report files are included for you to get an initial feel for RptView. Please review the help file for instructions on how to use RptView. If your copy is unregistered, a banner window will always be presented each time you start RptView and every time you open a new report. In addition, the main window title will contain the word UNREGISTERED. Both of these will go away if you decide to register and license RptView. PROBLEMS WITH INSTALLATION OR QUESTIONS Please contact DREC software thru on of the following methods. DREC Software 1633 West A St Lincoln NE 68522-1259 USA Internet Ids DRECSFTWR@AOL.COM 74463.1340@compuserve.com Phone Voice: 402-477-7760 (Leave a message) Fax: 402-477-7964 Please include Version number using when contacting DREC. (Found in About Box under the Help Menu.) ORDERING There is information in the Help file and a file called RVORDER.TXT for ordering. Also, if you desire a multi-server or company-wide unlimited license, please use the file RVRFQ.WRI to Request a Quote.