USER MANUAL: EARLY BICYCLES

1) INSTALLATION
   a) Make certain you are in Windows. The installation program
   will not run in DOS.
   b) Put Disk 1 (or the shareware disk) into your floppy drive.
   From you File Menu choose the Run option. Type a:\setup.exe or
   b:\setup.exe, depending upon whether a or b is the letter
   assigned to your 3 1/2" diskette drive. Click on OK.
   c) Alternatively, open the directory and file display for
   your floppy drive and double click on setup.exe.  
   
2) Either accept the default path and directory for installation or 
edit to your own specifications. Choose whether or not to install 
EARLY BICYCLES as one of your screen saver options in the 
Desktop Item of the Control Panel. Notice that the word 'default' in 
the dialog is confusing. There is no 'default' screen saver in the 
Desktop Item. If you choose this option, EARLY BICYCLES will be 
installed as just one of your screen saver choices under the name 
MINICAT in the proper alphabetical position. However, this 
installation does automatically enable EARLY BICYCLES as your 
Windows screen saver. In order to disable it, you must go to the 
Desktop Item of the Control Panel and set your screen saver to 
'none' (or another screen saver). See below for an explanation of 
'MINICAT'. See the text file 'Your Windows Screen Saver in the 
album for detailed information about EARLY BICYCLES as a 
screen saver and how to configure it. 

3) The installation will create a program group called MINICAT
with a single item in it also called MINICAT. You may change
the title of this icon to EARLY BICYCLES if you wish but there
are reasons not to do so as explained below. If 1) you have 
acquired more than one shareware or registered publication from 
us which uses this interface; 2) installed each into the same 
directory (default) and 3) chose to place your first MINICAT 
program item in some Program Group other than the default 
created by the installation; then you now have two MINICAT 
program items. You may delete one with no problems.

4) Double Click upon the MINICAT icon and the opening screen of
MINICAT is displayed. Notice the bar on the upper right which
is labeled either EARLY BICYCLES SHAREWARE or EARLY 
BICYCLES REGISTERED. Double click on this bar and you will be 
presented with the EARLY BICYCLES album main screen. If you 
pause at the opening screen for several seconds, a slide show of 
all images in the album will begin in the left window. Notice that 
you can only exit the program from this opening screen using the 
Close Button.

5) Registered users should realize that 1) if you did not uninstall 
the shareware version of EARLY BICYCLES (see manual) and 2)
installed the registered version into the same directory as the
shareware version (which happens automatically if you accept
the default installation path), THEN BOTH versions now reside 
within your MINICAT. If you click the Open button at the bottom of 
the main screen, you will see a list of installed CATALOGS: EARLY
BICYCLES SHAREWARE and EARLY BICYCLES REGISTERED. If 
you wish to delete the shareware version, You MUST use the 
uninstall procedure outlined below. If you simply delete the 
directory and files, it is very likely your MINICAT viewer will not 
function and you will have no access to the program album.

5) PLEASE READ ALL TEXT FILES, THEY ARE IMPORTANT AND
IDENTIFIED BY THE BOOK ICON. THESE FILES INCLUDE A 
MANUAL FOR USING THE EARLY BICYCLES ALBUM, LICENSE, 
ORDER FORM FOR REGISTRATION, INSTRUCTIONS FOR 
CONFIGURING THE SCREEN SAVER, ETC. UNLESS YOU
ARE AN EXPERIENCED WINDOWS USER, PLEASE DO NOT SKIP 
THIS MATERIAL!!

6) At the bottom of the album main screen are buttons for a
variety of operations whose functions are self evident (well
almost): 
        a) Back (to opening screen); 
        b) Index (of items in album); 
        c) Search (associated text files on key words); and 
        d) Left and Right which scroll the album window horizontally if 
        it is larger than your display resolution.          
        e) The Print button on the main album page does NOT
        print full size images, only text items such as the manual     
        and text files associated with images. Printout of text           
        associated with images will have a thumbnail image with 
        the text.
         f) Slide Show will begin a slide show of all images and the
         display may be customized: the buttons on the left
         side of the screen to do so should not need explanation.
         If you stop the Slide Show, the Description button can
         display associated text which can be printed with a               
         thumbnail image.
                   
7) To read the important text files, click on the book icon for
each. The information will be displayed and can be printed with
the Print Button. Depending upon the available memory in your 
system, you may not be able to view the Reality Software Catalog. 
It can also be found on Disk 2 as catalog.txt (ASCII) and loaded 
into any text editor or word processor.

8) To view an image at 640 x 480 resolution, click the thumbnail on 
the main album page. The image will quickly be displayed at this 
size with buttons for Description (display associated text); Print 
(image) and Close (back to album main page). If you choose to 
print the image a dialog is displayed in which you can size the 
image to the page. The smaller the image size on the page, the 
quicker the printout. THE COPY BUTTON IS ONLY ENABLED IN 
THE REGISTERED VERSION OF EARLY BICYCLES. It will put a 
true color (16.7 million colors) copy of the image on the Windows 
Clipboard to be pasted into a graphics editor of your choice in 
order to make graphics files for further use. See the text file 
'Royalty Free Graphics Files' for additional explanation. Click on 
the title to each thumbnail to display associated text.

9) Why the strange terminology? What does MINICAT and 
   CATALOG mean? 
   a) EARLY BICYCLES is a publication in a large series of           
   visionary art and historic transportation photo album/screen    
   savers to  be released by Reality Software with this interface.    
   The entire collection is  called a Mini-Catalog (MINICAT) and    
   each product within MINICAT is a CATALOG. The CATALOG    
   name in this case is EARLY BICYCLES and the CATEGORY is    
   EARLY BICYCLES SHAREWARE or EARLY BICYCLES    
   REGISTERED (i.e. registered version). CATEGORY names    
   appear on the MINICAT opening screen as Table of Contents    
   listings on the right. These listings are active and clicking on    
   them brings you to a main album screen as you now know.  
   b) As further publications are released in this series, it will
   be possible for you to have each listed as a CATEGORY in the
   Table of Contents of a single MINICAT. Each publication can be
   integrated into the MINICAT you now have.
   
10) How to Uninstall (Delete) EARLY BICYCLES
   a) From Program Manager's File Menu, choose Run .. Type
   c:\makecat\minicat.exe /u (NOTICE THE ESSENTIAL /U    
   SWITCH) and click OK. (A program item may be constructed for 
   this Uninstall program.) A dialog will be presented with a list of 
   MINICAT CATALOGS available for deletion. Choose EARLY 
   BICYCLES and click Uninstall. 
   b) Edit this path statement as necessary if you changed the
   default destination directory during installation.
   c) EARLY BICYCLES will be completely removed from your hard
   drive. If you later wish to use EARLY BICYCLES, it must be
   re-installed from your program disks.
    
ENJOY!