RVINSTAL.TXT	RptVw (Report View) Installation Instructions
8/27/94

WELCOME

Welcome to RptVw, the Windows report viewer and report information
extract system. RptVw 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. If you have mainframe
reports (IBM, Unix, etc.) that you would like to view online and
extract information from, RptVw is for you.


GENERAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

You may want to install RptVw 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 1.1 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. RptVw 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 RPTVW

The first time RptVw is executed an INI file will be
created in the directory that contains the RptVw executable
(RPTVIEW.EXE). Setting descriptions can be found in the RptVw help
file (RPTVIEW.HLP).


TRIALING RptVw

A SAMPLE.RPT file is included for you to get an initial feel for
RptVw. Please review the help file for instructions on how to use
RptVw.

If your copy is unregistered, a banner window will always be
presented each time you start RptVw. In addition, the main window
title will contain the word UNREGISTERED. Both of these will go
away if you decide to register and license RptVw.

Thank you for considering RptVw.

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