ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Installation Instructions for your Shareware Explorer CD-ROM ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Note: Pressing F1 gives context sensitive help wherever available. Important: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Always run the ACCESS program from a floppy or hard drive. If you use any of the commands that need to call DOS Execute a DOS Command, or View Inside ZIPs, and there is not enough memory to load the extra command in, the program will swap out to the current drive in order to make room to run the command. The configuration and file listing format databases have to be on a floppy or hard drive in order for you to make changes to them. An option (ACCESS /nowrite) has been included so that you can run the program from your CD-ROM without using any hard drive space at all, but you will be unable to use all the features of the program for the reasons above. This is *not* recommended. DO NOT RUN THE PROGRAM FROM YOUR CD-ROM UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIFIED THIS OPTION ON THE COMMAND LINE. Quick Set-Up ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ From your hard drive, type X:\INSTALL where X: is the CD-ROM drive's letter. Follow the on-screen instructions. The INSTALL program will copy whatever files are necessary to your hard drive, and create a batch file so that you can easily access your CD-ROM. You'll need as little as 27K of hard drive (or floppy) space to use all the features of ACCESS. For an additional increase in speed, the ACCESS program and the files database may also be copied to your hard drive. This can require as much as 3-4 megabytes of free hard disk space. Please be you have sufficient hard disk space prior to running INSTALL. Once the Installation program is complete, change to the location you specified for ACCESS.BAT to be copied, and Type 'ACCESS" to begin exploring your new CD-ROM. Please don't forget to select 'CONFIGURATION' from the menu when you first use ACCESS. It will you to custom configure ACCESS to your own computer environement. INSTALLING MULTIPLE CD-ROMS --------------------------- If you have purchased more than one of our Shareware Explorer Series CD-ROM discs and wish to install more than one copy of the ACCESS program on your hard drive, we suggest that you install the first one in a subdirectory called \ACCESS1, the second in \ACCESS2, and so on. After each Install is completed, you may also wish to rename ACCESS.BAT to ACCESSn.BAT, where 'n' corresponds to the number of the last installed \ACCESS subdirectory. (e.g. The batch file to the disc whose data base is located in the subdirectory called \ACCESS1 would be renamed ACCESS1.BAT. Then, you can easily access any of the Shareware Explorer discs by simply putting the disc in your CD drive and typing ACCESS1 [Enter] to view the contents of the first CD-ROM disc, ACCESS2 [Enter] to access the second, etc. Please remember that it will take 3 to 4 megabytes for each copy of the ACCESS program that is installed.