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- Installation Procedures
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- Welcome to SoftQuad HoTMetaL, an editor especially for HTML files.
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- This distribution is for Microsoft Windows 3.1; it will not run
- without Microsoft Windows. You will need about 8 Megabytes of free
- disk space on your hard drive, and about 6 Megabytes of available
- RAM. If you have less memory than this, you maybe able to create a
- Windows swap file and continue, but your system will run much faster
- if you have more memory. See the file README.WRI for more information
- on memory problems.
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- The software has been stored in a compressed format to make it
- easier to distribute. To extract the files you will run an
- installation script. To do this, follow these steps:
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- * Start up Microsoft Windows.
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- * Using the Windows File Manager, move to the directory where you
- saved the files that you ftp'd. You should see two files:
- INSTALL.TXT (the file you're now reading), and HOTM1NEW.EXE.
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- * It is a good idea to move HOTM1NEW.EXE into a newly
- created directory (any directory with no other files present)
- to make the removal of the installer files easy to do when
- you are finished installing the software.
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- * Double-click on the file HOTM1NEW.EXE.
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- This unpacks fourteen files in the directory.
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- * Double-click on the file HMINST.EXE to begin the installation.
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- The first dialog box that appears is the Welcome Message. Click on
- the "Continue" button to continue.
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- Another dialog box appears, letting you choose where to install the
- software. The default location is the directory C:\SQHM.
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- * If you want install in an alternate location, type it in the
- text box labeled "Copy to". Include the drive name, as well as the
- full path name. If you have a previous version of HoTMetaL, you must
- NOT install the new version in the same location.
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- * Now click on the "Ok" button to proceed with the installation. If,
- for some reason, you wish to cancel the installation, click on the
- "Exit" button.
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- The installation script will check that you have enough disk space.
- If there is not enough, it will return you to the dialog box where you
- may choose an alternate location for the software, or else cancel the
- installation and free up some disk space.
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- As the installation progresses, a horizontal bar on the screen will
- gradually increase in length to indicate the proportion of files that
- have been extracted. Another vertical bar on the left of the screen
- will indicate the proportion of the current file that has been extracted.
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- If you want to cancel the installation during the extraction procedure,
- you may click on the F3 key. If you attempt to do this, a dialog box will
- appear, asking whether you still wish to cancel.
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- The installation will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
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- * Once the files have been extracted, a dialog box will appear
- asking you for the name of the Windows program group that will be
- created. By default, the installation program will create a
- program group called SoftQuad HoTMetaL 1.0+. If you wish to create a
- different group, enter the name in the text box provided. If a
- program group of that name already exists, it will be overwritten.
- You can run HoTMetaL by clicking on an icon in this program group.
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- * Once installation is complete, you can remove the files extracted
- from hotmetal.exe which were used by the installer. They
- are found in the same directory as hotmetal.exe
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- Printing the manual
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- The manual is supplied in two formats: PostScript and unformatted text.
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- * The PostScript version is the file DOC\HOTMETAL.PS and you
- can send it to any PostScript printer that supports the Palatino
- font (all except very old models do). To do this, go to the DOS
- prompt, change directory to the location of the file, and type:
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- PRINT HOTMETAL.PS
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- The manual is about 100 pages long.
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- The unformatted text version is the file DOC/HOTMETAL.TXT.
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