                WPWIN's Friend Release 1.1
            (C) Copyright 1993, PCTA. All rights reserved.

                   Introduction

WPWINF.EXE is a little Visual Basic Project designed to facilitate
your use of WordPerfect for Windows. All rights to WPWINF are reserved by 
PCTA, but you may copy and use release 1.0 of WPWINF, as you wish, 
provided no charges above $5.00 (U.S. Dollars) are made for the media 
containing it (e.g., disks, BBS usage and/or download charges, etc.).

The problems WPWINF addresses are: 

* WPWIN usually takes a long time to initialize, even if you enter it by mistake.. 

* WPWIN file management can be cryptic and slow. 

* Sometimes WPWIN  gives a cryptic error message when you attempt to start it from 
  the Windows Program manager, and it is already running.

WPWINF can be used as a miniature file manager for WPWIN. If you create an
icon for it with a startup directory, then it will speed editing files in that 
directory. 

WPWINF increases user productivity by faciliating users leaving WPWIN up
and loading files into it as needed. This eliminates WPWIN's long initialization 
time.

In addition, WPWINF is a useful addition to Central Point PC Tools
for Window's File Manager. If you assign WPWINF to its button bar,
you can select a file and click that button, and be sure that the right
thing will happen. 

Other file managers with similar facilities to PC Tools will also benefit from
the use of WPWINF.

               What WPWINF 1.1 Does

WPWINF checks to see if WPWIN is started, and verifies the parameters
you have provided it with. You will be given the chance to select a file or 
change your selection. If WPWIN is already started, WPWINF will add 
the file you have selected to WPWIN's multiple document interface (MDI). 
If WPWIN is not already started. WPWINF starts it with the file you specify.

If WPWIN is not already started, and a file is specified, then WPWIN starts 
with its defaults. If WPWIN is already started, and no file is specified, an 
informative message is put on the screen. WPWINF ends once WPWIN commences
loading or starts to add the specified file to its MDI interface.

WPWINF is a small Visual Basic 2.0 project, and most of the resources it uses
are a consequence of using Visual Basic. Visual Basic 2.0 applications
use no less than 75 kilobytes and 5% Free System Resources.


                              INSTALLATION

There are two major steps to installing WPWINF in Windows:

(1) Installing WPWINF program files

(2) Installing WPWINF in the Windows Program Manager


Installing WPWINF Program Files

WPWINF.EXE is as completely self-contained as any Visual Basic 2.0 Project.
In other words, if you have not already done so, you should obtain 
VBRUN200.DLL, and copy it to the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory. 
VBRUN200.DLL  may be freely copied, and is probably available 
from the same source as you obtained WPWINF. WPWINF is not distributed with 
VBRUN200.DLL because VBRUN200.DLL is so freely available, and is reasonably 
large (>200 kilobytes). WPWINF is about 10 times smaller.

You need to copy WPWINF.EXE and WPWINF.HLP some place where Windows can readily 
find it, such as the \WPWIN subdirectory.

Installing WPWINF in the Program Manager

Install WPWINF in Program Manager using the File, New, Program Item
menu selections to get to the Program Item Properties menu. If you are
familiar with the procedure, skip reading the rest of this item and just
do it.
 
* First, select the program group (such as WordPerfect Applications) you want to have the
  WPWINF icon in. Single click any item in the group. It will be highlighted.

* Second, select File, New, and Program Item. 

* Third, use the Browse Button on the Program Item Properties menu to find  
  where you copied WPWINF.EXE. 

* Finally, use the OK Button to confirm creation of the WPWINF icon.

               Using WPWINF in Windows

What happens when you start WPWINF:

WPWINF presents you with a menu of 4 options:

* Open - this option asks WPWIN to open the file you specify. If there is
  no file, and WPWIN is already running, WPWINF tells you so, and ends.

* Print - this option asks WPWIN to print the file you specify. If WPWIN is 
  not running it starts WPWIN and asks it to load the file, but printing
  it is up to you.

* Select File - this option brings up WPWINF's file selection menu. Where the
  file selection starts depends on the Working Directory you have specified
  to the Program Manager if no file has been specified. If you fully specify 
  the drive and path when you start WPWINF, then that is used. WPWINF's
  File, Open menu leads to this same menu.

* Exit - this ends WPWINF with no further actions being taken. WPWINF's 
  File, Exit menu options have the same consequence.


Installing WPWINF in the PC Tools for Windows File Manager.

There are two major steps to installing WPWINF in 
the PC Tools for Windows File Manager, beyond copying the
WPWINF.EXE file to your disk:

(1) Creating a Toolbar command

(2) Assigning the command to the Toolbar

Creating the WPWINF Toolbar command in the PC Tools for Windows File Manager:

* Select Options, Customize

* Press the Commands button* Select Options, Customize

* Press the Commands button

Creating a PC Tools File Manager Toolbar command for WPWINF:

* Select Options, Customize

* Press the Commands button

* Press the New button
 
* Fill in the blanks:

     Command Name:       WPWIN
     Command Line:       (use the Browse button to find WPWINF)
     Working Directory:  (set to where you keep WPWIN documents)
     Description:        Run WPWIN (or what you want)
     Button text:             WPWIN (or what you want)
     Menu text:          &WPWINF (or what you want)
     Show style:         Normal

* WPWINF contains an appropriate icon

Assigning the WPWINF command to the Toolbar:

* Select Options, Customize

* Press the Toolbar button 

* Use the Toolbar scroll bar to the place in the toolbar to add WPWINF

* Select WPWINF from the Commands menu

* Press the Insert button

* Press the Save button

  
WPWINF.INI file

If you put a file called WPWINF.INI in Window's startup directory
(usually C:\WINDOWS) then this file will override some defaults
that are used to start WPWIN. This file is composed of 
1 record. The record contains two items separated by a comma:

* The first item is used to start WPWIN and defaults to WPWIN.EXE.

* The second item is any optional WPWIN parameters you wish to use,
  such as the /U parameter for network users. 

If either parameter is null, then WPWINF's defaults will be used instead.

                    CAVEATS

This is release 1.0 of WPWINF, and you may find some bugs or things
you don't like about how it works. The author reserves its copyright,
but is letting people use and copy release 1.0 subject to the conditions
mentioned at the top of this file. For further information contact the author  
by FAX at PCTA, 313-881-1347.


                    VBRLOAD.EXE

VBRLOAD.EXE is included with WPWINF. It is a trivial application that
causes much of VBRUN200.DLL to be resident as long as it is resident. 
You may want to put it in your startup group to speed subsequent loading 
of Visual Basic 2.0 applications. If you do this, remember to select the 
Run Minimized option.

VBRLOAD uses about 5% FSR's and 75k of Windows memory. If you run low,
ending it will recover 100% of these resources.