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Microsoft Product Support Services ViewNote (Text File)
VW006: WINDOWS 3.1 AND SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS
12/92
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MAY ACCOMPANY THIS DOCUMENT (collectively referred to as a
ViewNote) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The user assumes the entire risk as to the 
accuracy and the use of this ViewNote. This ViewNote may be 
copied and distributed subject to the following conditions:  1) 
If software is included, all files on the disk(s) must be copied 
without modification (the MS-DOS [R] utility diskcopy is 
appropriate for this purpose);  2) All components of this 
ViewNote must be distributed together;  and  3) This ViewNote 
may not be distributed for profit. 

Copyright (C) 1992 Microsoft Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.

Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks, and Windows is a
trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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Summary
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ViewNotes are online documents designed to answer questions you
may have about Microsoft Windows-based products. To read this
ViewNote in Microsoft Multimedia Viewer, a program that allows
you to read .MVB files (online Viewer documents), follow the 
instructions below. ViewNotes require Microsoft Windows operating
system version 3.0 or later.

FILES THAT MUST BE DOWNLOADED
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This ViewNote requires the following:

ViewNote Files
 - VW006.MVB (the ViewNote)
 - VW006.IND (the ViewNote index)

Viewer Files
 - MMVIEW.EXE (Microsoft Multimedia Viewer)
 - FTUI.DLL (Viewer file for full-text search)
 - FTENGINE.DLL (Viewer file for full-text search)
 - MVAPI.DLL (Viewer file for full-text search)

INSTALLATION
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Note: If you already have Microsoft Viewer (MMVIEW.EXE)
installed in your VIEWNOTE directory, skip to step 2.

To install the Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and
FTENGINE.DLL) and the files for this ViewNote (VW006.MVB 
and VW006.IND), do the following:

Note: To save hard-disk space, you may prefer to copy this 
ViewNote to a high-density floppy disk and run the ViewNote from 
the floppy disk rather than running the ViewNote from your hard 
disk). If this is the case, copy MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, 
FTENGINE.DLL, VW006.MVB, and VW006.IND files to a floppy disk 
instead of to your VIEWNOTE directory. 

1. If you do not have a VIEWNOTE directory set up with 
   MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL located in 
   the directory, do the following to install a read-only version 
   of Viewer:

   a. Create a directory by choosing Create Directory from the 
      File menu in File Manager, typing "viewnote" (without the
      quotation marks) in the Name box, and choosing the OK 
      button.

   b. Download the Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, 
      and FTENGINE.DLL) from your bulletin board service (for
      example, from the Microsoft Download Service [MSDL], 
      OnLine, CompuServe, or GEnie). These Viewer files can be 
      obtained from the Software/Data Library on CompuServe, 
      OnLine, and GEnie by searching for the word MMVIEW or 
      S13434. Note that MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and 
      FTENGINE.DLL are compressed in the file MMVIEW.ZIP on 
      CompuServe, OnLine, and GEnie. After the file has been 
      downloaded, you must decompress the file using the PKware 
      PKUNZIP utility.
                           
      These Viewer files can also be downloaded through the MSDL
      at (206) 936-6735. The Viewer files are located in the 
      Windows 3.1 file area and are in the self-extracting file 
      MMVIEWER.EXE.

2. Follow the instructions below. For example, if you obtained
   Viewer from MSDL, follow the instructions under the "MSDL
   Users" heading.

   MSDL Users
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   After you have downloaded MMVIEWER.EXE, move it to your 
   VIEWNOTE directory or floppy disk. Because this file is 
   compressed, it needs to be expanded by typing the name of the
   file (MMVIEWER) at an MS-DOS command prompt. (MMVIEW.EXE, 
   FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL are the expanded Viewer 
   files used to read ViewNotes.) Also, move VW006.MVB 
   (the ViewNote) and VW006.IND to your VIEWNOTE 
   directory or floppy disk:

   a. In File Manager, select the files you want to move.
   b. From the File menu, choose Move.
   c. In the To text box, enter the path to the VIEWNOTE 
      directory you created in step 1a.
   d. Choose the OK button.

   OnLine, CompuServe, GEnie Users
   -------------------------------

   After you have downloaded MMVIEW.ZIP (and decompressed 
   it if you are using OnLine, CompuServe, or GEnie), move the 
   decompressed Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL, MVAPI.DLL,
   and FTENGINE.DLL), VW006.IND, and VW006.MVB (the
   ViewNote) to your VIEWNOTE directory or floppy disk:

   a. In File Manager, select the files you want to move.
   b. From the File menu, choose Move.
   c. In the To text box, enter the path to the VIEWNOTE 
      directory you created in step 1a.
   d. Choose the OK button.      

READING THIS VIEWNOTE
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To read the "Windows 3.1 and Serial Communications" ViewNote, 
do the following:

1. After installing the Viewer files (MMVIEW.EXE, FTUI.DLL,
   MVAPI.DLL, and FTENGINE.DLL), VW006.MVB, and VW006.IND
   using the instructions above, run Windows File Manager.

2. If you are running "Windows 3.1 and Serial Communications" 
   from your hard disk, open the directory where Viewer,
   VW006.MVB, and VW006.IND reside (the VIEWNOTE directory if you
   followed the directions above) and double-click VW006.MVB.
   If you are using a keyboard, select VW006.MVB and press ENTER.

   -or-

   If you are running "Windows 3.1 and Serial Communications" 
   from a floppy disk, run MMVIEW.EXE, choose Open from the 
   File menu in Viewer, select VW006.MVB, and choose the OK button.

SETTING UP A VIEWER ICON
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If you set up a Viewer icon, you can run Viewer by choosing the
icon, and then load the ViewNote by choosing Open from the 
File menu in Viewer, and selecting VW006.MVB from the VIEWNOTE
directory. To set up a ViewNote icon, create a program item for
Viewer. For information about creating a program item, see pages 
78-81 of the "Microsoft Windows User's Guide" for Windows version 
3.1 and pages 89-91 of the "Microsoft Windows User's Guide" for 
version 3.0.

