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- Date Analyser README
- March 1998
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- (c) Expert Information Systems, 1998
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- This document provides information to supplement the Expert Information
- Systems Year 2000 - Date Analyser Web page. The Frequently Asked Questions
- section on the Web contains more up-to-date information. You can access this
- Web page by clicking the About option on the file menu, taking note of the
- web page listed. Surf to this web page and then click on Frequently Asked
- Questions.
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- TRADEMARKS. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Visual Basic and/or other
- Microsoft products referenced herein are either Trademarks or registered
- Trademarks of Microsoft.
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- How to Use This Document
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- To view Readme.txt on screen in Notepad, maximize the Notepad window.
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- To print Readme.txt, open it in Notepad or another word processor, and
- then use the Print command on the File menu.
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- CONTENTS
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- 1. Supported Configurations/Platforms
- 2. Frequently Asked Questions
- 3. Product Support Worldwide
- Expert Information Systems Year 2000 Web Page
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- 1. Supported Configurations/Platforms
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- Expert Information Systems Date Analyser currently runs under Windows 3,
- Windows 95 and Windows NT. It runs as an Add-in inside the Visual Basic 4
- development environment. It works with VB4 16-bit or 32-bit. It can be
- used to analyse VB3 and VB4 projects for date keywords.
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- 2. Frequently Asked Questions
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- Q. What is the purpose of Date Analyser?
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- A. Date Analyser automates the process of analysing vast amounts of
- Visual Basic 3 and 4 source code for date keywords. The tool is used to
- reduce the amount of manual code inspection. It works by parsing every
- single form, module and class in the currently loaded VB project and
- produces a log file of all date keywords found. The results can then be
- used as part of the impact analysis study.
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- Q. Why do I need Data Analyser?
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- A. Can you imaging having to manually search each file in a VB project for
- date keywords to see if the file is impacted by the year 2000 problem.
- This process is very time consuming and labour intensive. It is also
- very boring. Date Analyser allows the developer to automate this task
- and spend more time on performing the High Level Analysis. A whole VB
- project can be analysed in seconds.
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- Q. Have you an example of how Date Analyser can be used?
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- A. Here is a typical process:
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- * Identify VB systems and create an inventory.
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- * Perform High Level Analysis by parsing identified source code using
- Date Analyser.
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- * The results of the High Level Analysis can be transferred to a
- spread sheet. This can be used to provide an estimate of the likely
- investigation and analysis effort that will be required to identify
- and understand the impact of the date related keyword matches. For
- example date keywords can have weighting factors applied to them.
- The number of occurrences of a keyword can then be multiplied by the
- weighting factor to give a total score for that keyword for a
- particular file. This score can then be used to estimate the
- investigation and analysis effort required.
- The resulting spreadsheet also serves as a visual aid in identifying
- clusters of date related source code.
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- Q. Can I start using Date Analyser Now?
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- A. Yes you can. You can download Date Analyser now from :
- http://www.sgw1.demon.co.uk/year2000
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- It will run as an UnRegistered version which means that you are
- restricted to analysing only 1 file in a VB project. This restriction
- is removed when you Unlock the software with a registration code.
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- Q. How do I purchase Date Analyser?
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- A. You can visit :
- http://www.sgw1.demon.co.uk/year2000
- and purchase a registration code on-line which will allow you to start
- using the software straight away. It will Unlock the software and
- remove all restrictions.
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- Q. How do I install Date Analyser?
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- A. Execute DAN16.EXE or DAN32.EXE. DAN16.EXE is used with VB4 16-bit and
- DAN32.EXE is used with VB4 32-bit. This will register Date Analyser as
- an Add-In. Load VB 4. Click on Add-Ins-->Add-In Manager from the Visual
- Basic tool bar. Cross the box next to Date Analyser and click on the OK
- button. Date Analyser will then be displayed as an available Add-In.
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- Q. How do I run Date Analyser?
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- A. Load the Visual Basic project into VB 4 that needs analysing.
- Click on Add-Ins-->Date Analyser from the Visual Basic toolbar.
- This will then launch Date Analyser. Date Analyser will appear on
- the windows taskbar. Click on Date Analyser to display it.
- Click on the Analyse button to begin analysing the current project
- loaded in Visual Basic.
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- Q. How do I exit Date Analyser?
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- Click on the Exit button or select File-->Exit while in Date Analyser.
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- Q. How do I remove Date Analyser from the available add-ins?
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- Click on Add-Ins-->Add-In Manager from the Visual Basic tool bar.
- Uncross the box next to Date Analyser and click on the OK button.
- Date Analyser will no longer be displayed as an available Add-In.
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- Q. How do I analyse Visual Basic 3 projects.
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- A. You will need to ensure that the VB3 project files are stored as
- ASCII files and not Binary files. Date Analyser will not work with
- binary files. You may then load the VB3 project into Visual Basic 4
- and perform the analysis.
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- Q. How do I add new date keywords to keywords.txt?
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- A. Load keywords.txt into Notepad. Add new keywords to the end of the file
- and place each keyword in Double Quotes.
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- Q. What does the message (SetupKeywords) Error. No : 53, File not found
- mean?
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- A. Date Analyser is attempting to load the file keywords.txt and the file
- can not be found. This file should reside in the same directory as Date
- Analyser.
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- 3. Product Support Worldwide
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- Support is only supplied to registered users through the Expert Information
- Systems Web site at http://www.sgw1.demon.co.uk/year2000
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