Welcome to the world of Racontex. To install the system on your  computer, type 
INSTALL  D:   \SUBDIR where D: is the drive you wish to install to and  \SUBDIR 
is  the  directory  you  wish  to  put  it  in.  Do not forget the colon or the 
backslash and be sure to leave a space between the colon and the backslash.

(If you  are  installing  from  a  floppy  disk, start from the prompt for that
floppy disk i.e. if the disk is in drive A, start at the A> prompt.  If you are
installing from a downloaded copy, start at the  prompt  for  the  subdirectory
holding the downloaded files TRANSFER.EXE, TRANSWIN.EXE, INSTALL.EXE, etc.)

If you have RACONTEX in executable form  on  read-only media, such as a CD ROM,
please see the file READONLY.DOC.  CD ROM executable files are not compressed.

The files are compressed into the files TRANSFER.EXE & TRANSWIN.EXE,  and  this
procedure will extract them.  If you wish to  examine the files  first  you may
extract them using LHA (copyright YOSHI).

The compression was selected  to  ensure  that  the  install  procedure and the 
compressed  files would  all  fit on two  360K floppy disks (or one of a bigger 
size).  If you have the files on a single disk, and wish to transfer them  to 2
disks,  copy all  files  but  TRANSWIN.EXE  to  the  first  disk  and copy just 
TRANSWIN.EXE to the second.   The INSTALL program will detect this and call for
the second disk.  If you have the files on two disks, and want them on a single 
disk, just copy them all to the same disk. 

If the product was downloaded as an archive file from a bulletin board, it  may
fit on a single 360K floppy disk since it may not include the file VBRUN300.DLL
which is required for the Windows front end (not required for DOS only).    The
VBRUN300.DLL file is  widely  available on BBS systems and may be inserted into 
the file TRANSWIN.EXE using LHA by disk  vendors who  wish to distribute a full
version.

The install procedure will automatically invoke the RACONTEX create function to 
produce  an  on-line  manual  as  a  RACONTEX database, and this README file as 
another.  You will see the loading process in operation, and the databases will
be there for you to experiment with searches. 

If  you  have  a copy  of LHA you may extract the file MANUAL from TRANSFER.EXE 
before you do the install, and print it for review.