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- SVInstal
- from Soft Ventures
-
- This is the shareware evaluation version of SVInstal.
-
- To install SVInstal,
- 1. Unzip SVI395.ZIP to a floppy or directory on your hard disk.
- 2. Run SVI395.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
-
- Also available:
- SVI3.13 - 16 bit SVInstal runable on Windows 3.1x, Windows NT
- and Windows 95
- SVI3NT - SVInstal specific to Windows NT
-
- Check out my web page for the latest information on SVInstal:
- http://www.cadvision.com/Home_Pages/accounts/softventures/SoftVentures
-
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- Release Notes:
-
- *** SEE DIFF.TXT for differences between the shareware and registered
- versions of SVInstal.
-
- 3.95 New Stuff
- (Aug 95)
- Un-Install - Users can now un-install the application. Removes
- files, directories and program group.
-
- Version check and display on overwrite prompt. User is shown
- version information for old and new files in case of
- an overwrite.
-
- Registry - You can add or modify any HKEY values by creating a text
- file with the key values. Some keys require administrator
- privileges to modify. This version assumes the user has
- the correct rights. This version only supports String keys.
-
- Long File and Directory names - This version is limited to 255
- characters for full file spec including directory info.
-
-
-
- 3.12 New Stuff
- (May 95)
- New Bitmap Display mode - You can now specify to display black
- areas of you bitmap as transparent. This means you can
- make a bitmap with large yellow lettering on a black
- background and it will appear as yellow lettering on
- the blue gradient. (note: only compatible with non-stretch
- bitmap placement modes)
-
- INI File support - You can now modify INI files during your
- installation.
- - Add to any .INI file.
- - Modify any .INI file.
- - Tokenized ini processing to insert the user selected
- install drive and directory if required.
-
- System Files - You can now modify AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
- - Check for minimum FILES and BUFFERS, modify if required.
- - Append to AUTOEXEC.BAT and/or CONFIG.SYS
- - Tokenized append processing to insert the user selected
- install drive and directory.
- - User can choose to apply changes or not.
-
- Automatic file placement - These files are auto-magically placed
- on the first distribution, disk when used.
- TileBitMap, Afterfile, Autoexec-append and Config-append
-
- Afterfile - now runs from the user chosen drive and directory.
- ie: if you specify your default to be C:\Myapp but the
- user installs to D:\Myapp2, SVI will install your
- afterfile to D:\Myapp2 and run it from there.
-
- Readme - Readme file has been separated from the afterfile. You can
- now specify a readme file and which program to run it,
- Notepad or Write.
-
- Restart/Reboot - You can now set SVI to restart windows or reboot the
- user's PC at the end of the installation.
-
- Disk Size - You can now specify the target disk as CD/Net and PRO_BLD
- will build full distribution into DISK1.
-
- Disk Numbers - PRO_BLD now writes disk number information which SVI312
- checks at disk change time to ensure user has put in correct
- disk. Loops until either the correct disk is put in or the user
- selects CANCEL.
-
- Improved error handling - you now have 'OK-CANCEL' choices on most errors
- so you can skip on to next file or cancel installation.
-
- Feedback on build, tells which file is being processed, "3 of 29" etc.
-
-
- 3.12 Fixes
- (May 95)
- - PRO_BLD, Improved processing for 'Remove Project'. PRO_BLD was
- getting confused as to when the last project had been
- removed. And setting wrong version number when creating new
- projects.
-
- - SVI311 if set to gradient fill would colorover any 'Always on Top'
- applications like Microsoft Office.
-
- - Check file size, 'TOO LARGE' message if bigger than configured
- disk size. ie: trying to put a 2MB file on a 1.44MB diskette.
-
- 3.12a Fixes
- (June 95)
- - SVI31BLD not setting Bitmap file name when opening optins window.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-