LibDB1 README
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Keywords:    library, home library, library database, Paradox for Windows V5.0,
             shareware, books, authors, subject categories.


LibDB1 (Library Database 1) is a Shareware library system for the home.
Version 1.1 of LibDB1 requires that you have Paradox for Windows V5.0 (PW5) on your system.
Thank you for considering LibDB1 for evaluation.

To install and run LibDB1:

(1)	Since you are reading this text, it is assumed that you have
        already unzipped the LIBDB1.ZIP file and that you have all the
        LibDB1 files on a diskette or on a hard drive.

(2)	To install LibDB1, you will require about 1.3 MB on your hard drive.

(3)	Start up your Windows.

(4)	From the Program Manager click on the menu option FILE and then
        RUN.  The command that you will have to enter has the following 
        format:
                        x:\ssssss\INSTALL

        x        is the drive (A, B, C, etc.) where the unzipped LibDB1
                 files are, and

        ssssss   stands for the subdirectory name you have used for the
                 unzipped files, and 

        INSTALL  is the program that does the installation


	Example 1:   If you have the unzipped files in the root directory
        on a floppy disk in drive A, then the command line should look like

	                A:\INSTALL

	Example 2:   If your unzipped files are on drive C in a directory
        called TEMPLIB then the command line should be

                        C:\TEMPLIB\INSTALL

(5)	When INSTALL is completed, you will have a new Program Group called 
        LibDB1.  To start the library system, double click on the LibDB1
        icon (a stack of books).

(6)	LibDB1 is Shareware.  Please read the following topics in the LibDB1 HELP file:

			OVERVIEW
			DISCLAIMER & AGREEMENT
			REGISTRATION

The LibDB1 system comes pre-loaded with a few authors and books.  Use this
small library database to test drive LibDB1;  browse the subject, author and
book tables, try to delete an author, and print some of the available reports. 
Once you are comfortable with the system, delete first the books and then
the authors -- at least those authors you don’t have in your library.
  
You might prefer to use the Paradox utility EMPTY to delete all the BOOKS
and AUTHORS records from the sample database:  from the Paradox menu 
click on TOOLS / UTILITIES / EMPTY.  In order to EMPTY the BOOKS and AUTHORS
tables you will need a password; use  insdel.  This password (insdel) will
also allow you to use the raw Paradox Edit facilities (F9) for updating
BOOKS and AUTHORS.

I hope that LibDB1 will be as useful for you and your family as it has been
for me.

Regards,

P. K. Winter,
Toronto