Knowledge Explorer Series
Exploring English 1.1
(C) The Dixon DesignWorks 1994-95
503 East 19th Street
North Vancouver, BC  V7L 2Z7
CANADA

INTRODUCTION

Exploring English provides a hypertext adventure through the
features of the English language.  Explore grammatical terms and
style elements in a rich hypertext environment.  Exploring
English is suitable for secondary students, post-secondary
students, advanced ESL students, and writers interested in
improving their use of English.  Shareware registration is $40. 
Requires Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.0 and the help engine from
Windows 3.1.  Have fun!


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

     Windows 3.1 or compatible operating system
     [Or Windows 3.0 with WINHELP.EXE and WINHELP.HLP 
     from Windows 3.1 (not all features are supported under Windows 3.0)]
     600K free disk space
     SVGA monitor recommended
     Mouse recommended (for sanity using Windows)


INSTALLATION NOTES FOR EXPLORING ENGLISH

From the distribution disk:

1.   Run INSTALL.EXE from the Windows Program Manager.  

From a self-extracting .EXE file:

1.   Run the self-extracting file to decompress the system files
     into the default directory.

2.   Run INSTALL.EXE from within Windows.  
     Note:  Exploring English can be installed into the
     directory containing the installation files so it
     is not necessary to unpack the files into a temporary
     directory.


TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED

1.   Press [Enter] or use the left mouse button to click
     on buttons, underlined text, or parts of the title graphic.
    
2.   Click on the Back or Contents button near the top of the
     screen to get out of a topic.

3.   Use [Tab] to shift the default action if Mr. Mouse does not
     want to play.

4.   Alt-F,X or Alt-F4 should get you out of Exploring English from any
     point.


TROUBLE SHOOTING

Exploring English is structured such that any machine
successfully running Windows 3.1 should not have any problems. 
However, the following problems may occur if your installation
of Windows 3.1 is no longer according to the default setup:

Problem:

1.   Double clicking the Exploring English icon fails to run 
     Exploring English.

     Cause 1:
          The path specified during installation had a '\'at the
          end of the path description ("C:\KES\" instead of
          "C:\KES")

     Remedy:
          Edit the properties for the program entry to remove
          extra back slashes ( \\ -> \ ).

    Cause 2:
          Windows fails to find WINHELP.EXE

    Remedy:
          Add a statement to the PATH statement in your     
          AUTOEXEC.BAT file to include the Windows 3.1      
          directory.

    Cause 3:
          WINHELP.EXE is incompatible with Exploring English.
          This usually indicates that your version of Windows is
          not 3.1, but (sigh) permutations of Windows 4.0,
          Windows from OS/2, Windows from Solaris, etc. may
          cause some interesting possibilities.

    Remedy 1:
          Upgrade to Windows 3.1
        
    Remedy 2:
          Obtain and install WINHELP.EXE and WINHELP.HLP from
          Windows 3.1 either in your Windows directory (changing
          the Help engine for all Help files) or in the
          directory containing the Exploring English files.
          Microsoft permits these files to be redistributed to
          maintain compatibility.  The files are included in a
          directory called HELP31 on the Exploring English
          distribution disk.
        
    Cause 4:
          Windows fails to recognize an association for     
          Exploring English or one of its files.

    Remedy:
          Use File Manager to set up associations for:
          *.hlp     WINHELP.EXE
          *.txt     NOTEPAD.EXE
          *.WRI     WRITE.EXE 

2.  Some graphics do not display. (this is very rare).

    Cause 1:
          Not enough memory available to Windows.

    Remedy 1:
          Close other applications to free memory. 

    Remedy 2:
          Increase the amount of virtual memory available (use
          Control Panel).

    Cause 3:
	  SHOWBMP.DLL and SHOWJPG.DLL are not found either in
	  the working directory or the Windows directory.

    Remedy 1:
	  Check the location of the files, then the current working directory,
          and then the path to the Windows directory.

    Cause 3:
	  SHOWBMP.DLL or SHOWJPG.DLL is incompatible with your video 
	  card.  Try the SVGA video driver to display 256 colours.

3.   The colours are strange in some graphics.

     Cause 1:
	  The video driver displays only 16 colours.

     Remedy 1:
	  Try the SVGA video driver to display 256 colours.
   
4.   The installation program asks you to "Place the disk
     containing COMMDLG.DLL in drive A:"  
    
     Cause 1: 
          Most likely you are running Windows 3.0.
        
     Remedy 1:
          Upgrade to Windows 3.1 and try again.
        
     Remedy 2:
          Obtain a copy of COMMDLG.DLL and place in your Windows
          system directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).   This
          file may be found in the HELP31 directory of the
          Exploring English distribution disk.
        
     Remedy 3:
          Create a group within Windows (or use an existing
          group) and create a new program item in the group with
          a commandline as follows:
               WINHELP %path%\ENGMAIN.HLP  
               [where %path% is the directory containing the
               Exploring English files.] 
    
5.  Other Problems.

    Remedy:
          Call The Dixon DesignWorks at 604-985-8261.