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- This disk set contains the OrCAD ESP Design Environment version 4.20 (ESP).
-
- To install ESP, change drives to the desired high density floppy drive
- containing the ESP disk (I.E. type A: followed by the Enter key). Then
- type INSTALL at the command prompt. The install program will ask you to
- answer some questions that will enable you to customize the installation
- of ESP on your PC.
-
-
- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
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- Using FIXDAT
- ------------
-
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- FIXDAT is a program that transfers configuration information from older
- versions of ESP to newer versions--eliminating the need to reconfigure
- tool sets, local configurations, and the on/off status of Transfers after
- updating the software.
-
- When you install your new product or update, you are asked--at the
- beginning of the installation process--if you want to automatically update
- the ORCADESP.DAT files in your design directories. If you answer "YES,"
- INSTALL runs a program called FIXDAT. INSTALL automatically handles
- the details and updates your configuration information.
-
- FIXDAT is designed to run properly when the OrCAD directory structure is
- found on one disk drive and the environment variables are set to point
- to the proper directories. If you ask INSTALL to run FIXDAT, and FIXDAT
- cannot find the files it needs (either because more than one disk is used or
- environment variables do not point to the proper directories), it reports
- an error. In these cases, you can run FIXDAT as a separate program from the
- system command prompt. If you do not run FIXDAT when you install your update,
- the ORCADESP.DAT file is copied to a TEMPLATE directory on the disk drive
- you specified as the drive on which to install the OrCAD software.
- FIXDAT takes two arguments:
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- o The path and filename of the old ORCADESP.DAT file to update.
- In this discussion, the file to update is called the oldDATfile.
-
- o The path and filename of the new ORCADESP.DAT file. In this
- discussion, this is called the newDATfile.
-
- This is how FIXDAT works:
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- 1. First, FIXDAT reads in newDATfile followed by oldDATfile.
-
- 2. Then FIXDAT compares the two files and finds buttons in newDATfile
- that have the same name as buttons in oldDATfile. If it finds a match, it
- copies the local configuration setting from oldDATfile to newDATfile.
- When FIXDAT is through with the comparison, you have a new newDATfile
- that has all of oldDATfile's local configuration settings.
-
- 3. FIXDAT then replaces oldDATfile with the updated newDATfile.
-
- Note that if the newDATfile has new buttons in it that don't exist in the
- oldDATfile, the local configuration settings for the new buttons are set to
- OrCAD's defaults.
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Syntax
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- FIXDAT [oldDATfile newDATfile] [switches]
-
- Updates oldDATfile so that it has all of the buttons found in
- newDATfile. The settings in oldDATfile remain unchanged.
-
- /A Reads the ORCADPROJ environment variable to find the TEMPLATE
- design directory. The ORCADESP.DAT files in ALL of the design
- directories are updated to the version of the ORCADESP.DAT file in
- the TEMPLATE design. oldDATfile and newDATfile are not specified
- when the /A switch is used.
-
- /L Reads the ORCADPROJ environment variable to find the TEMPLATE
- design directory. The ORCADESP.DAT file in the current directory
- only is updated to the version of the ORCADESP.DAT file in the
- TEMPLATE design directory. oldDATfile and newDATfile are not
- specified when the /L switch is used.
-
- /U Does the transfer even if oldDATfile and newDATfile are already
- the same version. The /U switch can be used in conjunction with the
- /L switch or /A switch. If so, oldDATfile and newDATfile are not
- specified.
-
- NOTE: FIXDAT reports an error if either newDATfile or oldDATfile
- does not exist.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Examples
-
- The next sections describe how to use FIXDAT to:
-
- o Update all your ORCADESP.DAT files
-
- o Update TEMPLATE's data file and data files in selected designs
-
- o Update one ORCADESP.DAT file
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- Update all your ORCADESP.DAT files
-
- If your directory structure is standard and you want to update all your
- data files, follow these steps:
-
- 1. Change to the TEMPLATE design and enter this command:
-
- C:\ORCAD\TEMPLATE>fixdat orcadesp.dat orcadesp.NEW
-
- ORCADESP.DAT is the data file with all your current configuration
- settings. ORCADESP.NEW is the data file with the latest updates to the
- design environment, and is saved in the TEMPLATE directory only when
- FIXDAT is not run during installation. This command updates your data
- file to the new version without losing your configuration settings.
-
- 2. To update the data file in each design, enter this line from anywhere in
- the directory structure:
-
- C:\>fixdat /a
-
- 3. Delete ORCADESP.NEW from your TEMPLATE design to prevent copying it
- to new designs. If you allow INSTALL to automatically update the
- ORCADESP.DAT files, INSTALL automatically deletes ORCADESP.NEW for
- you.
-
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- Update TEMPLATE's data file and data files in selected designs
-
- 1. Change to the TEMPLATE design and enter this line:
-
- C:\ORCAD\TEMPLATE>fixdat orcadesp.dat orcadesp.NEW
-
- Again, ORCADESP.DAT is the data file with all your current configuration
- settings. ORCADESP.NEW is the data file with the latest updates to the
- design environment, and is saved in the TEMPLATE directory only when
- FIXDAT is not run during installation. This command updates TEMPLATE's
- data file to the new version without losing your configuration settings.
-
- 2. Change to the design containing the ORCADESP.DAT file you want to
- update.
-
- 3. Enter this line at the prompt:
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- C:\ORCAD\YOURDESN>fixdat /L
-
- 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each design you need to update.
-
- 5. Delete ORCADESP.NEW from your TEMPLATE design to prevent copying it
- to new designs.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Update one ORCADESP.DAT file
-
- To update a data file in a specific design without updating any other data
- files, follow these steps:
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- 1. Copy the new data file ORCADESP.NEW to a floppy disk. In this example,
- the floppy disk is in drive A.
-
- 2. Delete ORCADESP.NEW from your TEMPLATE design.
-
- 3. Enter this line:
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- C:\>fixdat \orcad\yourdesn\orcadesp.dat a:\orcadesp.NEW
-
- FIXDAT updates ORCADESP.DAT in the YOURDESN design to match the
- version of ORCADESP.NEW in the A: drive.
-
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- ESP ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION
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-
-
- 1. In order to run OrCAD executables from outside of the ESP environment
- you must first add a statement to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This line
- tells the OrCAD executables which driver to load. If you used a VGA
- driver, you would add the following line:
-
- SET ORCADDD=C:\ORCADESP\DRV\VGA640.DRV
-
- This assumes that you had installed the default directories onto
- your C: drive.
-
- 2. If special video drivers are created using the GENDRIVE utility
- these drivers will not be displayed in the configuration scroll
- boxes. To select your custom driver, delete the existing
- driver selected and type in the custom driver name.
-
- _________________________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________
-
- The installation program used to install OrCAD EDA Tools,
- INSTALL, is licensed software provided by Knowledge
- Dynamics Corporation, Highway Contract 4 Box 185-H,
- Canyon Lake, Texas 78133-3508 (USA), 1-512-964-3994.
- INSTALL is Copyright (c) 1987-1989 by Knowledge Dynamics
- Corporation which reserves all copyright protection
- worldwide. INSTALL is provided to you for the exclusive
- purpose of installing OrCAD EDA Tools.
- _________________________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________
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