SVInstal 
from Soft Ventures

This is the shareware evaluation version of SVInstal.

To install SVInstal, 
1. Unzip SVINST.ZIP to a floppy or directory on your hard disk.
2. Run SVI311.EXE
3. Read the help file 'Introduction' and 'Getting Started" sections.

Thank you for trying SVInstal,

Rob Stevens
CIS 71441,734
Internet 71441.734@compuserve.com or stevensr@cadvision.com


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Release Notes:

*** SEE DIFF.TXT for differences between the shareware and registered 
    versions of SVInstal.

3.11	New Stuff
(Feb 95)
	Bitmap Position - Two new position added, Place_Low and Stretch_Hori-
		zontal_Low. These are the same as Place and Stretch_Horizontal
		except they place the bitmap at the bottom of the screen.

	Gradient Fill and Tile Fill - For screen color you can now choose either a solid
		color of a standard blue gradient fill or tiled bitmap.

	Pre/Post installtion messages - You can now specify a breift (255 character)
		message to appear before installation, and a different message to
		appear after. Of course, you do not have to use either if you don't
		want to. 

	PRO_BLD
	Options Screen - Got too big, split into 4 'Tabbed' panels.
	New Project - Now carries SVI3 and compress configure information forward.
	Compact Database - New menu choice under File to compact SVI.MDB.
	310TO311.EXE - upgrader utility.

	Multi-Add Subdirectory - When you select multiple files to ADD to a project,
		you are now asked if you wish to set the SUB DIRECTORY for all files.


3.10a	Fixes - There was a bug in the setup of new project default values. The
(Feb 95)	bitmap position parameter was set to 0 causeing no bitmap to be
		displayed. If you changed the position the problem disappeared.



3.10	New Stuff
(Jan 95)
	Screen color - You can now set the screen color to whatever you like. This
		is done with the new Pro-Build utility. (see below)

	Source Sub Directories - You no longer need to build a subdirectory tree
		on your distribution disk to install files to sub-directories. In 
		fact you no longer need to build your distribution disk, see Pro-
		Build below.

	Readme support - The Afterfile can now be used to run Notepad and bring
		up your readme.txt file. (see Help for how to do this)

	CD / Network support - When you specify an icon is to be placed in the
		program group you can also specify if the properties are to
		point back to the source. ie: Installing a CD you want the icon
		properties to point to a file on the distribution media - the CD.
		See CDNet.TXT for more details.

	Project Based Smart(er) Build Utility - This is the main enhancement of
		version 3.1. See on-line Help for full details.

		
3.10a	Fixes - There was a bug in the setup of new project default values. The
(Feb 95)	bitmap position parameter was set to 0 causeing no bitmap to be
		displayed. If you changed the position the problem disappeared.



3.06	Fixes - SVI3 would go ahead and try to install to a drive that did not
(Nov94)		have enough space.
	      - SVI3 would get real confused if you put TWO file names into
		the afterfile (like "NOTEPAD.EXE README.TXT"). SVI 3.06 still
		does not fully support using the afterfile to run NOTEPAD.EXE.
		This is because SVI3 passes commandline parameters to the 
		afterfile telling it where the user chose to install the 
		application. To get the above to work you must make a manual 
		change to SVINSTAL.SVI after it is built. Edit it with Windows
		notepad, and add AT THE END:
		[AfterFile]
		AfterFileParameterFlag=N
		Version 3.1 (available early in 95) will handle this for you.

3.05	Fixes - The source drive listbox was not set to display verticle scroll 
(Nov94)		bars. This meant you could only choose from the first three drives.
	      - The 'Installation Complete' box did not come up on multi-disk
		installations.		
	      - The %F token was not being parsed correctly.

3.04	Fixes - SVI3 fails when trying to install > 24 icons in a program group.
(Oct94)		Caused by single long DDE command. Now modified to add icons in 
		groups of 10. 
		NOTE: The maximum number of icons that Windows will support in 
		a program group is 50.

3.03	Fixes - SVI3 would fail after decompressing 16 files.
(Aug94)	      -	SVI3 would cause a protection fault in PROGMAN if more than 13
		icons were being added into a program group.

3.02	Fixes -	SVI3, if you selected no bitmap, the calculation of number of
(Aug94)		file to install would be incorrect.		

3.01	Fixes - RunComp "Internal Error" if run more than once.
(Aug94)	      - Files redirected to Windows with icon displayed had icon
		properties incorrectly set.
	      - Compress.exe, the orginally supplied compress.exe produced 
		files that would decompress fine with the lzexpand.dll that
		comes with Windows 3.11 but would not expand if using Windows
		3.1's lzexpand.dll. Files compressed with the supplied 
		compress.exe now work with both 3.1 and 3.11.