The Barking Cards Lite Readme File  4/28/98

This Barking Cards 1998 Mother's Day version is brought
to you by Blaze Technologies.  It includes one 
of our favorite cards for you to personalize and send. 
You can customize the text in the cards, add more text, add
photos, images or clip art, record voice messages or add 
pre-recorded sounds.  When you're done personalizing a card, simply 
hit the DONE button on Main Editing screen and follow the instructions
for saving the card.  You can then send the self playing card to your
recipient by attaching it to an email or by saving it to diskette and
sending the diskette.  You'll need a system with the following minimum
configuration to create and send the card (it can be SENT to anyone 
with a Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 system):

- 486DX (or higher) IBM PC compatible 
- 8 MB of RAM
- 7 MB of available disk space
- VGA or higher Video board
- Sound card (if you want them to hear the sounds) 


Barking Cards Volume II, Barking Cards Birthday Edition, Barking Cards 
Romance Edition, Barking Cards Holiday Edition and Barking Cards Lite
are published by:

Blaze Technologies, Inc.	
181-19 Centre Street
Mountain View, CA 94041

Phone: (650) 691-9450
Fax: (650) 938-1230

E-mail: support@barkingcard.com 


To Install the product:

1. Use an unzipping program (like PKUNZIP) to unzip the BCVAL98.ZIP
file into a temporary directory.
2. Run the Setup.exe program from that directory and follow the 
instructions.  

Barking Cards Lite is a trial version of our Barking Cards 
product line.  You may use it for 30 days to evaluate our products
it provided you agree to the licensing terms for evaluation users 
in the LICENSE.TXT file. If you don't agree to the terms then you
should remove our product from your computer.  

The Barking Cards Lite software may be distributed freely in the
original form (i.e. BCMOTH98.ZIP) as downloaded from from any of Blaze 
Technologies' authorized distribution outlets.  You are not permitted 
to modify the software from its original form, and you are not 
permitted to distribute any installed copy or separate files.
Please refer to the licensing agreement (LICENSE.TXT) for more 
information.  

Blaze sells Barking Cards products that include additional cards.
They make a perfect gift for yourself or a loved one. 
We believe that you'll find that we have the highest 
quality (and wackiest) animated cards on the market.
So if you enjoy the cards in our Lite Edition you might
consider purchasing the Barking Cards Volume II CD-ROM which 
features over 90 cards for a low price of $39.95.
We also sell two smaller editions, the Barking Cards Birthday
Edition ($9.95) and the Barking Cards Romance Edition ($9.95).
Look in the Barking Cards Lite help file for an order form or 
choose the ORDER FORM option from the Barking Cards
Lite program group.


TROUBLESHOOTING:

1. Installation Issues:  

a) There have been reports of "This program has performed an illegal 
operation" errors during install on some IBM Aptiva computers. 
It seems that the version of Windows95 that ships with some Aptivas 
includes a corrupt ODBCCP32.DLL file which can be found in the 
Windows/System directory.  The file should have a size over 90K 
but the corrupt version is only 6K.  If you find this is the
case during installation, temporarily rename the corrupt ODBCCP32.DLL
file to a new name before retrying the installation.  Then proceed with
the installation which should now work.  After Barking Cards is 
installed you can go back and rename the corrupt file back to 
ODBCCP32.DLL.

b) On some systems, at the conclusion of the installation an error
message appears, "_ins0432  This program has performed an illegal 
operation".  This is an Installshield message and it occurs after 
all the files have been successfully installed.  It can be disregarded 
because Barking Cards Volume II will operate correctly.

Other Issues:

c) Pause/Quit toolbar is centered on the screen. 

If you run a Barking Card and the Pause/Quit toolbar displays in the
center of the card, you need to adjust the settings of your video 
card.  To change this, 
  
   - Hit the Start Button 
   - Go to Settings 
   - Select Control Panel 
   - Choose Display 
   - Then Settings 
   - Then change the Center Dialog Box setting 

FILES:

For your information, here is a list of the files that are
installed by our software onto your system.

Cardmake.exe
Consumr.cra
Consumr.crl
Playcard.bin 
readme.txt 
license.txt 
cmstub16.exe 
cardmake.hlp
cardmake.cnt
crush32.dll
order.txt
LFBMP62N.DLL
LTFIL62N.DLL
LTKRN62N.DLL
LTTWN62N.DLL
HMEW2.DLL
FILE_ID.DIZ

We hope you enjoy Barking Cards Lite as much
as we enjoyed creating it!




