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- 5. Installing MCBase: Shareware version.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: this section discribes the installation of
- MCBase from the original "ARJ"-type archive file. It is very
- lightly that the various BBS-sysops will convert this original
- archive file to a format that is standard on their system.
- Two other common archivers, that you might encounter, are
- PKZIP (by PKWare, Inc) with the filetype "ZIP" and LHA (by
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki) with the filetype "LZH".
-
- You received the shareware version of MCBase as the archive
- file MCBxxx.ARJ. If you did NOT receive MCBase as this archive
- file, then please make sure, you have the following files
- after extraction of the archive: MCBASE.EXE, MCBASE.DOC,
- GENMCB.EXE, LICENSE.MCB, ORDER.MCB and REVISION.MCB.
-
- (Your copy could be incomplete and you might get the wrong
- idea about the performance and documentation of the MCBase
- system).
-
- You will need Robert Jung's ARJ.EXE to extract the archive.
- Use the following command to extract all files:
-
- ARJ x MCBxxx.ARJ
-
- In case of a ZIP-file format, use: PKUNZIP MCBxxx.ZIP
- In case of a LZH-file format, use: LHA e MCBxxx.LZH
-
- Installing MCBase on your system should not be very difficult,
- if you follow these steps:
-
- - 1) Copy the original MCBxxx.ARJ archive file to a floppy
- disk and store it in a safe place.
-
- - 2) Create a new directory for the MCBase system.
-
- - 3) Move all the extracted files to this new directory.
-
- - 4) Generate a set of datafiles by running GENMCB.EXE.
-
- - 5) DELETE GENMCB.EXE after use! It generates NEW and EMPTY
- databases, so you wouldn't want to use it after you've
- been entering data. (You can retrieve another copy from
- the MCBxxx.ARJ archive file, should you need it).
-
- - 6) Run MCBase. The program will now create the neccesary
- index-files (KEYxMBx.NDX) and the printer configuration
- file MBPRINT.CFG.
-
- - 7) Exit MCBase.
-
- - 8) Start your wordprocessor, import this ASCII-document
- MCBASE.DOC and print it.
-
- - 9) If you have a printer which is NOT an Epson-compatible,
- you should now run MCBase and edit the printer command-
- set. Check your printermanual for the correct commands
- and see section 29 for assistance on printer commandset
- editing.
-
- After these steps you'll be ready to run the shareware version
- of the MCBase Music Collection DataBase system.