MACREX MANUAL INSTALLATION

Do not attempt manual installation unless you are familiar with DOS and the commands for copying files, making directories and deleting files. You will also need to use a text editor to modify your configuration files.

Use manual installation if

  1. There has been a problem using the supplied installation program.
  2. You are very short of disk space and want to be selective about the files you install (the installation program will refuse to run if you have less than 2.5 megabytes of free space on your hard disk).
  3. You have a non-standard DOS system, such as DOS emulator on a Macintosh or under Unix or you are using the DOS prompt under Microsoft Windows NT.
  4. You are a computer aficionado who has a built-in distrust of installation programs.
  5. You have `multiple boot configurations' (possible on DOS 6) and don't want the installation program to change the current one.

Basic Instructions

  1. Make a directory to contain the MACREX program files on a drive with about 2.5 megabytes of spare space. In this example it will be MX6 on drive C. Do this by typing MD MX6 while logged on to the relevant drive.
  2. Change to the directory you have chosen to receive the MACREX files and copy all the files from the installation disk(s) into that directory. In our example this will be CD\MX6 followed by COPY A:*.*.
  3. Uncompress all the compressed ZIP files in the directory. This is done by typing UNZIP <FILENAME>. Usually there will be four ZIP files called ZM6ARCE.ZIP, ZM6ARCU.ZIP, ZM6ARCX.ZIP and ZM6ARCD.ZIP.
  4. Optionally delete all the .ZIP files to save disk space.
  5. Edit the CONFIG.SYS (or equivalent) file to allocate at least 22 files (files = 22) but preferably 70.
  6. Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT (or equivalent) file so that the MACREX directory is on the path (ie add C:\MX6 somewhere in your PATH statement).
  7. Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or equivalent) to define an environment variable called MACREX which points to your MACREX directory. In this case we would want the statement

    SET MACREX=C:\MX6

    to appear on one line.

Reboot your computer (you do this by pressing the <CTRL>, <ALT> and <DEL> keys at the same time. The screen will go blank and the screen will then go through the same process that happens when you first turned the computer on).

Notes

UNZIP.EXE is a public domain compression utility and is supplied on the distribution disk. Brief instructions can be obtained by typing UNZIP at the DOS prompt. You can get more information at the Info-Zip Web Site. The ZIP files can also be unzipped using the PKZIP version 2 or Winzip or a number of other decompression utilities. A ZIP file is referred to as an `archive'. If you are very short of disk space it is possible to examine which files are in which archive on the distribution disk and to extract them selectively.


A minimal installation for MACREX needs the following files

LOADSCR.COM

MCX.BAT

SAVESCR.COM

WINTEST.COM

ZM6M.EXE

ZM6P.EXE

ZM6U.EXE

ZM6PS.EXE

ZM6PG.EXE

???.MPT (printer definition for your printer)

These will occupy about 560k of disk space.

Last updated 9 November 1997 by Hilary and Drusilla Calvert

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