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- 12/2/94 Finale 3.0.2 Updater Instructions
-
- Finale 3.0.2 contains a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements over Finale
- 3.0. The new README.WRI (see MISC302.EXE below) contains a comprehensive list
- of the changes.
-
- The Finale 3.0.2 updater contains all the files necessary to update Finale
- 3.0 to Finale 3.0.2. It consists of two main parts: (1) a patch file which will
- update your existing installation of Finale 3.0. This patch will not work unless
- you have Finale 3.0 installed already! (2) An archive containing corrections to
- a number of templates and a library, as well as an updated README.WRI. This
- archive can be extracted whether or not you have the corresponding files
- installed.
-
- The updater consists of the following files:
-
- FIN302.EXE -- self extracting archive, containing:
- README.1ST -- this file
- FIN302.RTP -- the patch file
- PATCH.EXE -- the patch program
- MISC302.EXE -- self extracting archive containing:
- TEMPLATE/BAND/FULLCONC.FTM
- TEMPLATE/BAND/JAZZBAND.FTM
- TEMPLATE/BAND/MARCHBND.FTM
- TEMPLATE/GENERAL/INSTRANS.FTM
- TEMPLATE/ORCH/FULLORCH.FTM
- TEMPLATE/ORCH/STRQUART.FTM
- LIBRARY/INSTR/GENMIDI.LIB
- README.WRI
- MISC.BAT -- a batch file that simplifies extracting MISC302.EXE
-
- ========================================================================
- How To Patch Finale 3.0 to Finale 3.0.2:
- ========================================================================
-
- The patch program PATCH.EXE is a DOS program. You must either exit Windows, or
- run it from inside a DOS shell within Windows.
-
- You cannot patch Finale while Finale is running. Exit Finale first.
-
- -- Get to a DOS prompt, either by exiting Windows, or launching a DOS shell. If
- you launch a DOS shell, be sure Finale is not running.
-
- -- Copy the files PATCH.EXE and FIN302.RTP into your Finale directory. This
- directory is normally called FINALE3.
-
- -- Change to your Finale directory. For example, if Finale was installed in
- the directory FINALE3 on drive C:, you should type:
-
- C:
- CD \FINALE3
-
- -- Type the following to run the patch program:
-
- PATCH FIN302.RTP
-
- -- The patching operation will take a few minutes to complete. If it completes
- without errors, you can delete PATCH.EXE and FIN302.RTP.
-
- -- The patching operation is complete!
-
- A WORD OF EXPLANATION: Patching is a common way to distribute updates to
- programs that are already installed. If you have used patches before for
- other software, you may notice that FIN302.RTP is considerably larger than
- most patch files. The reason for this is that, although Finale 3.0.2 contains
- changes that are relatively minor, both Finale 3.0 and Finale 3.0.2 are
- compressed programs. This means that the binary images of the programs are
- considerably different, even though the changes are relatively minor. It is
- perfectly normal for a patch file to be quite large under these circumstances.
-
- ========================================================================
- How to extract MISC302.EXE:
- ========================================================================
-
- MISC302.EXE is a self-extracting archive containing an updated README.WRI and
- some corrections to templates and libraries. These corrections are described
- below.
-
- README.WRI -- contains a comprehensive list of the changes in Finale 3.0.2,
- including a number of minor new features
-
- LIBRARY/INSTR/GENMIDI.LIB -- corrects an incorrect channel assignment for
- channel 10
-
- TEMPLATE/BAND/FULLCONC.FTM
- TEMPLATE/BAND/JAZZBAND.FTM
- TEMPLATE/BAND/MARCHBND.FTM
- TEMPLATE/GENERAL/INSTRANS.FTM
- TEMPLATE/ORCH/FULLORCH.FTM -- corrected transpositions for tenor sax,
- piccolo, contra bassoon, and double bass
-
- TEMPLATE/ORCH/STRQUART.FTM -- replaces STRQURT.FTM. Only the name has
- changed.
-
- If you have not made any changes to the original templates and library shipped
- with Finale 3.0, and if you installed the files in the same directories as
- listed above, you can simply extract the changes as follows:
-
- -- Get to a DOS prompt, either by exiting Windows, or launching a DOS shell.
-
- -- Copy the files MISC.BAT and MISC302.EXE into your Finale directory. This
- directory is normally called FINALE3.
-
- -- Change to your Finale directory. For example, if Finale was installed in
- the directory FINALE3 on drive C:, you should type:
-
- C:
- CD \FINALE3
-
- -- Type the following to extract the archive:
-
- MISC
-
- -- The extraction process will extract the files listed above into their
- default directories, overwriting the old copies of those files.
-
- -- The extraction operation is complete!
-
- If you made any changes to the library or templates listed, you should rename
- those files or copy them to a safe location during the extraction process.
- Alternatively, you can run the extracter directly by typing:
-
- MISC302
-
- This will extract all files to the current directory rather than the default
- subdirectories. It will ask you before overwriting any existing files of the
- same name.
-
- ========================================================================
- Cleanup
- ========================================================================
-
- You should save a copy of FIN302.EXE on a floppy or in another location
- should you ever need to reinstall Finale. If such a situation arises, you
- will need to install Finale 3.0 from your original distribution disks, then
- perform the update process again.
-
- After you have completed the update process and saved a copy of FIN302.EXE,
- you can delete the following files from your Finale directory:
-
- FIN302.EXE
- README.1ST
- FIN302.RTP
- PATCH.EXE
- MISC302.EXE
- MISC.BAT
-
- In case of problems, call Coda Technical Support at (612)937-9703
- Support hours are 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time
-
- ========================================================================
- END OF README.1ST
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-