INSTALLING PAF2.31 ON A TWO 720K FLOPPY DRIVE SYSTEM PAF2.31 cannot be installed on a computer with only floppy drives with the standard INSTALL program that comes on the distribution disk. For that standard installation a HARD DRIVE is required to provide sufficient disk space to UNZIP the compressed files on the distribution disk prior to configuration. These files are normally placed in the PAF program directory and require about 1.3 megs of disk space. All these files are not required for the operation of the Family Records program but most are required for the initial CONFIGuration of PAF and in most cases must be located in the PAF program directory. Consideration is given here for the installation of those required files to successfully operate FR.EXE, FRCHK.EXE, GIE.EXE, and RDF.EXE. There are no provisions for running the program PAF.EXE which is the PAF Access Menu program and is unnecessary. Also some of the features normally accessed from FR.EXE will not be available from that source but can be run from the DOS Command Line prompt. GEDCOM (GIE.EXE) and the Research Data Filer (RDF.EXE) are copied to separate disks and must be run from them and called from the command line. In the original configuration below, FRCHK.EXE will be on a separate disk (DISK#4) and must be called from the command line also. FRCHK.EXE could be copied to DISK#1 and then run from FR.EXE if you give up the PAFHELP file. To me that option is not advisable. The Command Interpreter (COMMAND.COM) must be on each disk used in the Program Directory/Drive. It is not required on the data disk. Blank forms are located on a separate disk and can be printed from the DOS prompt with the COPY command after setting the printer for the proper line length used by the forms. Primary interest here would be for the Pedigree Charts and the Family Group Records which require COMPRESSED PRINT. Most but not all others utilize an 80 character line and do not require printer reconfiguration. PAF2.31 for 3 1/2" drives comes on one 720K disk and is in compressed format. The files included are: INSTALL.EXE PAFINST1.ZIP PAFINST2.ZIP PKUNZIP.EXE The file PAFINST1.ZIP extracts to 1,276,001 bytes which is too large to extract to your floppy drives and therefore will require individual file extraction. The file PAFINST2.ZIP is small, only 10,065 bytes, and can be extracted with no problem. To extract these files to the proper disks for operation of FR.EXE, GIE.EXE, RDF.EXE, and CONFIG.EXE follow the outline below. 1.> Format 4 disks. Label them: #1. Family Records (FR.EXE) #2. GEDCOM (GIE.EXE) #3. Research Data Filer (RDF.EXE) #4. Configuration (CONFIG.EXE) Format DISK #4 as a system disk. This disk will also hold FRCHK.EXE, PRINTER.ZIP, and all the Blank Form formats (*.FRM). This disk can be used for booting the computer and you may add your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to it as desired. 2.> Place the Distribution Disk ( or a backup of it) in Drive A: Place DISK#4 if DRIVE B: In all following instructions 'at the prompt' means at A:\> You must press or after each command entry. At the prompt type: COPY PKUNZIP.EXE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP CONFIG.EXE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP *.ZIP B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP FRCHK.EXE B: If you are proficient at using PKUNZIP then you can combine the last three commands to a single command line. 3.> Place DISK#2 in DRIVE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP GIE.EXE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP *.MSG B: 4.> Place DISK#3 in DRIVE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP RDF*.* B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP *.MSG B: 5.> Place DISK#1 in DRIVE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP FR.EXE B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP PAFHELP B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP *.MSG B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP *.DAT B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST1.ZIP *.STD B: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PAFINST2.ZIP *.* B: At the prompt type: RENAME B:PRNT231.CFG PRINT23.CFG 6.> Place DISK#4 in DRIVE A: At the prompt type: COPY COMMAND.COM B: 7.> Place DISK#2 in DRIVE B: At the prompt type: COPY COMMAND.COM B: 8.> Place DISK#3 in DRIVE B: At the prompt type: COPY COMMAND.COM B: This point you should have extracted to disks the required files as follows: DISK #1 FR EXE 307,614 09-30-94 11:23a COMMAND COM 54,619 09-30-93 6:20a PAFSTART MSG 3,013 09-30-94 11:23a PAFOTHER MSG 31,767 09-30-94 11:23a PAFLIBS MSG 11,003 09-30-94 11:23a PRNT23 CFG 7,938 02-24-95 6:50p PAFFR MSG 39,773 09-30-94 11:23a PAFGIE MSG 44,875 09-30-94 11:23a PAFHELP 133,707 09-30-94 11:23a REPORT DAT 2,421 09-30-94 11:23a TMPLCODS DAT 459 09-30-94 11:23a NAME STP 56 09-30-94 11:23a DISK #2 GIE EXE 283,396 09-30-94 11:23a COMMAND COM 54,619 09-30-93 6:20a PAFGIE MSG 44,875 09-30-94 11:23a PAFSTART MSG 3,013 09-30-94 11:23a PAFOTHER MSG 31,767 09-30-94 11:23a PAFLIBS MSG 11,003 09-30-94 11:23a PAFFR MSG 39,773 09-30-94 11:23a DISK #3 RDF EXE 85,616 09-30-94 11:23a COMMAND COM 54,619 09-30-93 6:20a RDFHELP 11,121 09-30-94 11:23a PAFSTART MSG 3,013 09-30-94 11:23a PAFOTHER MSG 31,767 09-30-94 11:23a PAFLIBS MSG 11,003 09-30-94 11:23a PAFFR MSG 39,773 09-30-94 11:23a PAFGIE MSG 44,875 09-30-94 11:23a DISK #4 PRINTER ZIP 9,076 09-30-94 11:26a FORMS ZIP 10,420 09-30-94 11:24a COMMAND COM 54,619 09-30-93 6:20a CONFIG EXE 83,644 09-30-94 11:23a PKUNZIP EXE 28,959 09-30-94 11:26a FRCHK EXE 98,302 09-30-94 11:23a The actual sequence of the files in the directory may not be the same as above. Size and date of COMMAND.COM may vary. Some files will be added during configuration. New files will be PAFCONF.DAT, PAFHELP.NDX, and RDFHELP.NDX. You can gain a little room by deleting PAFGIE.MSG from the RDF DISK#3 and from the FR DISK#1. If you do not have one of the following printers, then you can skip down to the CONFIGURATION steps. CANON Laser Beam HP DESKJET HP DESKJET 500 Series HP LASERJET II Series HP LASERJET III Series HP LASERJET III & IV Series A4 paper IBM LASER PRINTER PANASONIC LASER POST SCRIPT If your printer falls into one of the above categories, then with DISK#4 in DRIVE A: and DISK#1 in DRIVE B: For CANON printers: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP CAN?.PRN B: For HP DeskJet Printers: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP DJ*.PRN B: For HP LaserJet printers: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP HP*.PRN B: For IMB printers: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP IBM*.PRN B: For PANASONIC printer: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP PAN?.PRN B: For POSTSCRIPT printers: At the prompt type: PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP PS?.PRN B: If your printer does not properly operate with the extracted files then you can extract ALL those drivers to drive B: with the following command. PKUNZIP PRINTER.ZIP B: Driver data for other printers is already contained in the PRNT23.CFG file on DISK#1. If your printer is not listed then you can ADD your printer to the list by supplying the proper codes to the Configuration file. CONFIGURING PAF2.31 Place DISK#4 in DRIVE A: Place DISK#1 in DRIVE B: At the prompt type B: From here on the prompt should be B:\> rather than A:\> At the prompt type A:CONFIG Follow the prompts given by the Configuration program. At the end of CONFIG.EXE you will be asked to insert DISK#1, DISK#2, and DISK#3 in turn in DRIVE B: to insure that each has the PAFCONF.DAT file for its operation. FAMILY RECORDS To operate FR.EXE you will have to create your database. Format one or more disks for your data. Label disk the unique name you have selected as the name for that database. Place your program disk (DISK#1) in the drive you entered for it in the configuration. Place a Data disk in the drive you entered for data in the configuration. Log onto your program disk drive. I would recommend that you configure Drive A: as your program drive and Drive B: as your data drive. There is not enough room on DISK#1 to make it a system disk without eliminating one or more of the files you may wish to keep. At the DOS prompt type FR and press ENTER. This will start the Family Records program for you. Options and Functions lost with a two floppy PAF Configuration. 1. You cannot use the PAF Access Menu. You must access your data by typing FR on the command line. 2. You cannot run FRCHK from the PAF Access Menu, the option at termination screen when exiting PAf, or from the Utility Menu. FRCHK must be accessed by typing FRCHK and the Drive from the DOS prompt. Example for data in drive B: then place the disk containing FRCHK.EXE (DISK#4) in drive A: and type: FRCHK B: and press 3. You cannot run GIE.EXE from the PAF Access Menu. Place the disk containing GIE.EXE in Drive A: and type GIE at the prompt. 4. You cannot use external notes. To use external notes, both the disk containing the external word processor and the notes need to be on line. This would require additional disk drives. 5. You cannot run many of the shareware utilities that require additional working directory space or that require a hard drive. 6. You are limited to the amount of data you can have in a single database. Your data cannot span disks so the disk size determines your limit. With an average of one noteline for each individual, you will probably be limited to less than 1,500 individuals per database. 7. Size of a GEDCOM file created or being entered will be limited to the amount of free space on the GIE.EXE (DISK#2). Gedcom files must be input/output from/to that disk. Other limitations may show up as you are using the program but you may discover methods to work around them. This is only an opportunity to utilize PAF2.31 on these older computers until other equipment becomes available to you. Operation of PAF2.31 under these conditions is still a better option than most other genealogy database programs configured for such a machine.. Operation of PAF2.31 on a two 360K floppy drive system is also possible but is so severely restricted that it is impracticle to even discuss. If there are specific questions or problems encountered I will give all assistance I can. Write, call, or leave message on GEnie giving as much detail as possible. I cannot guarantee that there are no errors in the above procedures. Jack J. Chandler 812 Vermillion Dr. Henderson, NV 89015 PH# 1-702-565-3158