Category : Databases and related files
Archive   : AN300.ZIP
Filename : INSTALL.DOC

For most computer systems typing ANSETUP will install Ample
Notice satisfactorily. If you run into problems (for example if
you have DOS 3.0, which has bugs that surface in batch files) you
can install the package yourself.

Installing Ample Notice is simply a matter of putting a few
files where DOS can find them. If you're installing onto a
floppy, you will probably be content to put all files in the root
directory; if you have a hard disk, we recommend putting all Ample
Notice files in a subdirectory called \AN3.

Here is the procedure:

1. Copy the files AN.EXE (the program itself), the NOTES file,
ALARM.COM (the pop-up alarm clock), AN.HLP (the help file) and
ANINST.EXE (a program for changing AN's default colors, etc.)
to the appropriate disk/subdirectory. (The directory AN3 is
recommended.)

2. Copy the appropriate configuration file from the Ample Notice
disk to the directory you used in 1. There are seven files,
each corresponding to a different printer. The files and
associated printers are:

CONFIG.E9 - Epson 9-pin printers
CONFIG.E24 - Epson 24-pin printers
CONFIG.GEN - Generic printer (don't use this if you can use
another configuration file)
CONFIG.HP - Hewlett Packard LaserJet and DeskJet printers
CONFIG.OKI - Okidata 192
CONFIG.PRO - IBM Proprinter
CONFIG.TOS - Toshiba printer

Copy the file to the name CONFIG.CAL. For example:

COPY A:CONFIG.HP C:\AN3\CONFIG.CAL

If your AN directory is other than C:\AN3, edit the CONFIG.CAL
file, replacing C:\AN3 with the directory you're using.
(You'll have to make two substitutions.)

3. Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that AN.EXE's directory is in
your DOS PATH and so that ALARM is run by AUTOEXEC.BAT. You
can do this automatically by typing ANINST followed by the
location of AN.EXE; for example,
ANINST C:\AN3
If you want to do this editing yourself instead, here's how:
Put the directory containing AN.EXE in your DOS PATH.
For example, if this file is in C:\AN3, then you should add
;C:\AN3
to the end of the line starting with PATH if there is one; if
there is no PATH line in AUTOEXEC.BAT then add the line
PATH \;C:\AN3
Following the PATH line add the line
ALARM

The changes you make will take effect the next time you boot your
computer.