VERY IMPORTANT ! READ BEFORE INSTALLATION ! ------------------------------------------- Warranty/Disclaimer ------------------- All procedures of this computer program and its installation have been tested on inhouse computer systems of BrainWare and/or client sites to provide best possible compatibility to your systems. As there are differ- ences between software versions and computer equipment, BrainWare does not take any responsability for damages or loss of data caused by the installation/usage of the WinMan system. The client is responsible for a full backup of its own software/data prior to install and a proper compatibility test before using this software in an enduser environment. Using this Software (Licencing/Support) --------------------------------------- The WinMan Software package was developed at BrainWare Consulting & Deve- lopment, R.Schallberger, Schaffhauserstr. 82, CH-8222 Beringen/Switzerland. All rights are reserved to this company. The package of software you just recieved is a trial licence which may be used free of charge during 60 days after installation on a maximum of 20 workstations per company. After this trial time you have to buy or remove this software. Pricing information can be found in the document PRICES.ZIP which is a zipped WinWord 2.0 document. In order to be able to provide support during your trial time, we need the following information of your company to be faxed to us before any call can be answered: Company Name Name/Department of the person in charge with evaluation Network environment (e.g. Novell NW386, 4MB Tokenring...) Primary used computer hardware (e.g Compaq 486/33,VGA) Main host communications (e.g. VT220 & 3270) Main Software Packages (e.g. WfW 3.11, WinWord 6 US, Excel 5 int) The better this information the better our support, so please take you a few minutes to provide this information. Any support during trial time is on FAX basis only. We will call you back if further information is required. You are not allowed to use/reproduce/publish any part of this software/ documentation other then as described above. Contact address is: BrainWare Consulting & Development Rey Schallberger Schaffhauser Str. 82 CH-8222 Beringen / Switzerland Fax./Tel. (053) 35 36 15 These files may be given to other users who wanna test them (when including) this READ.ME) under the restrictions seen above. Pricing ------- Following a few prices (all prices in Swiss Francs, exchange rate at date I write this is: 1.47 Swiss Francs = 1 US$). A detailed pricelist is available on demand (fax us): 1 User 115.- sFr. 10 User 995.- sFr. 50 User 2950.- sFr. 100 User 4950.- sFr. 250 User 9990.- sFr. All Prices +6.2% Tax + shipping costs. WinMan gets paid per node (workstation) Prices can be changed without any further notice. Introduction ------------ As you may imagine, it is not easy to provide an installation routine for a piece of software which is meant to install/maintain the software on your network/workstation. As the configuration of the WinMan scripts depends on your personal disk structure as well as your preferences (e.g. Menu titles, notification messages), we provide a limited setup routine which supports a list of applications documented later in this file. This 'Base Installation' will allow you to get a first understanding of WinMan's functionalities. Please take the time to experience this system and use this understanding to go on with the implementation of a complete WinMan system in your environment. The environment which gets installed automatically provides the following items: Applications: Automated Setup, Repairing and Update of... - Microsoft WinWord 2.x - Microsoft Excel 4.x - Microsoft Powerpoint 3.x - Microsoft Mail 3.x - Microsoft Project 3.x - Microsoft Access 1.x - Microsoft Windows Utilities Drivers: Automated Setup, Repairing and Update of... - HP LaserJet II,III,IV models - Windows Postscript Driver Support Tools... - FirstAid, the local and remote support feature (see seperate chapter) Basic Options of a WinMan system not covered by automatic installation: - Automatic installation of Windows itself including - Configuration of printers - Video drivers - Country settings - Keyboard settings - ... - Automatic configuration/startup of menu system To implement such functions please do not hesitate to contact us. We can provide sample instructions to add such functionality. You can find later in this document a more detailed description of the functionality of the implementation of each application as well as the list of files which will be overwritten by WinMan. During the installation of WinMan the Setup routine will copy files which could be overwritten into a seperate directory (\BACKUP.WM under your Windows user directory) to avoid damages or loss of settings in case of problems. Please be aware that running the installation routine more the once would copy the files again in their most recent status ! Installation ------------ Prerequisites: - Windows 3.x/Windows for Workgroups 3.x - Workstation running Windows in 386 Enhanced Mode - 0.5 MB of disk space for WinMan application files (per WS or central on network, depends on installation) - about 15 KB of disk space per user on networks - max. 200 KB RAM during execution within Windows (no TSR/drivers required before loading Windows) - a copy of BWCC.DLL (can be found on Compuserve, GO BPASCAL, Library 10 Windows Tools) The test installation of WinMan reads settings of the applications currently installed in your Windows to find out which applications are available. There for make sure the workstation you use to run the initial installation is a Windows system which is fully configured on your needs (Windows incl. requested applications). You will find later a description how to port such a configuration to additional systems without the need to configure them (except Windows itself). The files in the downloaded ZIP file are prepared to run off any drive/sub- directory you copy it to. If you remove the documentation ZIP files, you can copy the installation files also to a floppy disk (1.44MB) please make sure to use the -D parameter when unzipping. This will preserve the directory structure. Make sure the Windows System directory contains a copy of BWCC.DLL. This is the Borland runtime Library. If you don't have this file, please download it from CompuServe, GO BPASCAL, Library 10 Windows Tools. To run the installation please first choose the type of setup you need. The 'Standalone Installation' simply installs WinMan for the usage of your locally installed Windows. The 'Network Installation' offers you basically the same functionality but runs the files off a common network drive. This allows you to add easily additional workstations to your test environment (e.g. to test the network support features). Please be aware that the Network installation just reads the settings of the machine you are working on and there for will use this settings on any additional machine. Standalone Installation ----------------------- 1. Start Windows 2. Insert the floppy into any drive and run x:INSTALL.EXE, where 'x' marks the drive letter of the drive you inserted the floppy to 3. INSTALL requires now the directory where it should install the WinMan application files. By default this is the \WINMAN subdirectory within the Windows System directory. You may choose any drive/directory you want. 4. Now start the installation and wait until the task is complete. 5. This completes the installation of WinMan. To make it active, now simply run WINMAN.EXE off the Windows system directory you have choosen, or even better, use the Filemanager to drag WINMAN.EXE into the AutoStart group to make it active at every startup of the workstation. Once you've completed the configuration of one system you can simply copy it to additional systems by copying the contents of the WinMan appli- cation directory plus the following files within the Windows system directory to the new system: WINMAN.EXE WINMAN.INI BW_SHELL.DLL BW_TOOL.DLL BW_DDE.DLL FBDLL.DLL BWCC.DLL Then startup Windows on this machine and add WINMAN.EXE to the AutoStart group of your menu system. Network Installation -------------------- 1. Start Windows 2. Insert the floppy into any drive and run x:INSTALL.EXE, where 'x' marks the drive letter of the drive you inserted the floppy to 3. INSTALL requires now the directory where it should install the WinMan application files. By default this is the \WINMAN subdirectory within the Windows System directory. If you are running a shared copy of Windows on the network server you will require supervisory rights to write to this area. If you are running a local copy of Windows, you should choose a common network drive to install WinMan. This will allow easy distribution to any additional users you may wanne use WinMan. Please be aware that you can run WinMan off a networked installation of WinMan without any risk to disturb any other users configuration, as the only file which may be used by other users is the BWCC.DLL (Borland control library). 4. Now start the installation and wait until the task is complete. 5. This completes the installation of WinMan. To make it active, now simply run WINMAN.EXE off the WinMan application directory you have choosen, or even better, use the Filemanager to drag WINMAN.EXE into the AutoStart group to make it active at every startup of the workstation. 6. If you want to use WinMan on additional workstations, simply add WINMAN.EXE to the AutoStart group of the users configuration. If You installed WinMan into a different directory then the WINMAN subdirectory within the Windows system directory, make sure all necessary users have read access to this directory. If you are running a local installation of Windows, you have to copy the following files from the workstation you used for the original setup into the Windows system directory: WINMAN.EXE WINMAN.INI BW_SHELL.DLL BW_TOOL.DLL BW_DDE.DLL FBDLL.DLL BWCC.DLL IMPORTANT (for Standalones and networked Workstations) ------------------------------------------------------ Do not register WINMAN.EXE in the RUN= or LOAD= commandline of WIN.INI, as this would require to provide also scripts to start your menu system and so on. This is part of a complete WinMan setup and not the test setup you are installing right now. Documentation ------------- If you recieve this via floppy disk, the floppy contains the current WinMan documentation in a file called WMDOC.ZIP which is in the common PKZIP format. To unpak this file, copy it to a harddisk drive and use PKUNZIP WMDOC.ZIP. The file will use about 2 MB of diskspace when expanded. If you downloaded these files from Compuserve, the documentation can be found in a seperate file WMDOC.ZIP in the same Forum you downloaded the WM15.ZIP. The documentation is in WINWORD 2.0 format and formatted for duplex printing on a HP LaserJet 4si. To print it, select duplex printing - short edge binding in the Printer setup panel. Also check the document FAMILIAR.ZIP which contains some information to get easier familiar with the product. Application Setups ------------------ Following you will find more detailed information which versions of the applications we tested together with the test scripts. If you want to support a different version of the application or some of the settings the script installs are different from your preferences, just change them in the appropriate script file, named in each of the the following sections. Microsoft WinWord 2.x --------------------- Scriptfile: WINWORD.WMS Tested on : WinWord 2.0a/b/c International and German Add. Info : Default Speller is American English Page Setup A4 Microsoft Excel 4.x ------------------- Scriptfile: EXCEL.WMS Tested on : Excel 4.0 and 4.0a International Add. Info : Default Speller is American English Page Setup A4 Microsoft Powerpoint 3.x ------------------------ Scriptfile: POWERPOI.WMS Tested on : PowerPoint 3.x International Add. Info : Default Speller is American English Page Setup A4 Microsoft Mail 3.x ------------------ Scriptfile: MSMAIL.WMS Tested on : MS Mail 3.x International and German Add. Info : Default Speller is American English Setup prepares only MHS Microsoft Project 3.x --------------------- Scriptfile: WINPROJ.WMS Tested on : Project for Windows 3.x International Add. Info : Default Speller is American English Page setup A4 Microsoft Access 1.x -------------------- Scriptfile: MSACCESS.WMS Tested on : Access 1.x International Add. Info : Default Speller is American English Page setup A4 Microsoft Windows Utilities --------------------------- Scriptfile: UTI_WIN.WMS Tested on : Windows 3.10/3.11/WFW 3.11 International and German Add. Info : Prepares only the menu options for the most common tools without any further settings. Printer Drivers --------------- Scriptfile: HPLJ2.WMS, HPLJ3.WMS, HPLJ4.WMS, PSCRIPT.DRV Tested on : HP International and German drivers Add. Info : Page Setup A4 Support Tools ------------- Scriptfile: UTI_CONF.WMS Tested on : Windows 3.10/3.11, WFW 3.11, NT Add. Info : Not fully covered in test setup