Readme file for Magic Squares 1.03 ---------------------------------- For further information, problems, bugs etc. please contact:- SoftSell, 65 Heol Rehoboth, Five Roads, LLanelli, Dyfed. SA15 5DZ Tel. 0269-860206 or contact the author by email at:- martint@llanelli.demon.co.uk 70374.332@compuserve.com CompuServe ID: 70374,332 Network users ------------- The current version of the Setup program supplied by Microsoft will not install Magic Squares onto a networked machine. This is because the Setup program is unable to find the location of the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. Microsoft have promised a fix for this problem. For a workaround please see the section on manual installation. Installation problems --------------------- All installation problems seem to occur when version 3.0 of Windows is in use. There is a known problem with some early versions of LZEXPAND.DLL supplied with Windows 3.0. Also, installation problems arise when some DLL's are duplicated in both the \WINDOWS and \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories. The setup program actually consists of two programs, the first copies across system files mainly required for the installation while the second program copies across the Magic Squares application files. As both programs check that enough space is available on your hard disk for the application it's possible the installation may fail due to lack of disk space. If this happens then you will have to free up some disk space before attempting to re-install. However, if the installation fails with an error message similar to the following:- Unable to copy A:\SETUP1.EX_ -> C:\WINDOWS\SETUP1.EXE first of all copy the file LZEXPAND.EX_ from the Magic Squares diskette to your hard disk using the following command from the DOS prompt:- EXPAND /r A:\LZEXPAND.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM N.B. this assumes you are installing from drive A, your Windows sub-directory is named \WINDOWS & your hard disk is drive C. If you are installing from drive B to drive D & your Windows sub-directory is named \WIN31 then the command would be:- EXPAND /r B:\LZEXPAND.EX_ D:\WIN3\SYSTEM Re-run Setup from the File Manager. Manual Installation ------------------- Make a directory on your hard disk for the Magic Squares files:- MD \WMS logon to drive A (B if you are installing from drive B) and copy the following files from the Magic Squares diskettte to your hard disk:- EXPAND /r WMS.EX_ C:\WMS EXPAND /r WMS.HL_ C:\WMS EXPAND /r WMS.DA_ C:\WMS if you are on a network copy the following files to the \WINDOWS sub-directory:- EXPAND /r VBRUN200.EX_ C:\WINDOWS EXPAND /r THREED.VB_ C:\WINDOWS if you are not on a network copy the following files to your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM sub-directory:- EXPAND /r VBRUN200.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM EXPAND /r THREED.VB_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM