                               readme.1st
                                 March/95

FLOPYCAT is a ShareWare program that runs under Windows 3.x

To install the package, proceed as follows:

1)   Install the distribution disk in a floppy disk drive. (If you received
     FLOPYCAT as a ZIP file (FLOPYCAT.ZIP), then do:
     a) Create a new directory (eg: C:\TEMP)
     b) PKUNZIP the FLOPYCAT.ZIP file into that directory

2) In Windows Program Manager, click on the FILE menu item and then on the RUN
   menu entry. Enter the following in the box labelled "Command Line"
   a)  A:\SETUP       (if you installed the FLOPYCAT disk in drive A)
   b)  C:\TEMP\SETUP  (if you UNZIPPED the FLOPYCAT.ZIP file)

3) Answer the question setup asks about where you want FLOPYCAT installed.
   If you see any messages of the form:
       "xxxxxxxx.DLL is in use. Please close all applicatons and re-attempt
       Setup" followed by three options: ABORT    RETRY   IGNORE
   you can safely click on the IGNORE box. This is a known problem with
   Microsoft Application Installations and will not affect your install.

4) If you see the following message during installation:
       Please add <PATH>SHARE.EXE /L:500 to your AUTOEXEC.BAT
   click on the OK button. After the install is finished, go to DOS and do:
   a)  C:\ DIR/S SHARE.EXE
        (This will locate the <PATH> referred to in the message. It will  
        probably be either C:\DOS or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM)
   b)  Use a text editor such as WINDOWS NoteBook to edit your C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
       file, and enter a line anywhere in the file with the <PATH> eg:
        (1) C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE /L:500
   or  (ii) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHARE.EXE /L:500
   and then REBOOT your system

5) When the installation is finished (about 5 minutes), there will be a new
   Group on your Program Manager desktop named FLOPYCAT, containing an item
   labelled FLOPYCAT and another one labelled SHARE.EXE. You can DELETE the
   SHARE.EXE item (but NOT the file it points to).  Double-click on the
   FLOPYCAT item to start FLOPYCAT.

6) If FLOPYCAT gives a message about updating AUTOEXEC.BAT or SYSTEM.INI, and
   you have already updated AUTOEXEC.BAT, then follow the instructions to
   update SYSTEM.INI  You may need to copy VSHARE.386 from the directory where
   you installed the FLOPYCAT package to the WINDOWS directory if you don't
   already have a copy of VSHARE.386 in the WINDOWS directory.  Do this via:
       C:>  COPY C:\FLOPYCAT\VSHARE.386 C:\WINDOWS\VSHARE.386
   and then update C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI with the line:
       device=vshare.386
   in the [386enh] section of WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI, and then restart WINDOWS

Please note that this is a ShareWare package.  If you plan to keep and use
FLOPYCAT, please register your copy, and thanks for trying FLOPYCAT.


Bud Dawson
President
NABU Consulting Inc.
