Contents of the medium
The READ_ME.DBM file on your media from Acucorp lists the files that are shipped with the product.
Installation of the Interface
This topic instructs you to install Acu4GL for DBMaker on your Windows 95/98/NT machine.
Instructions for installing your Acu4GL interface from the ACUCOBOL-GT Development Suite CD-ROM are contained on the "Acucorp Product Installation Getting Started" card that accompanied the product. Please refer to it for installing the ACUCOBOL-GT Development Suite, which includes Acu4GL. Once the installation is complete, please refer to this appendix for setting up your Acu4GL interface.
If DBMaker is not already on your system, install and configure DBMaker version 3.0 or later before you install Acu4GL for DBMaker.
To install Acu4GL for DBMaker on your machine:
1. Initiate Windows 95/98/NT.
2. Insert the first Acucorp diskette.
3. Click on Start and select Run.
4. On the Command Line, type:
a:setup (or b:setup, if you're using the b: drive) Then press [enter] or click OK. This begins the auto-install process.
5. At the Welcome window read the information provided by Acucorp, then select Next to continue or Cancel if you do not want to install Acu4GL.
6. At the Registration window, enter the Name and Company registration information and select Next.
7. Confirm the Registration information in the Registration Confirmation window by selecting Yes or No. Selecting No returns you to the previous window.
8. Choose the destination for the interface in the Destination window. The Browse button can be used to find or name a new directory. Select Next when you have named the destination.
If you created a new directory, you are asked to confirm the name and path. Select Next when you have confirmed it.
9. The Create Folder window asks if you want to make a program folder icon for the Acu4GL components. Select Yes or No. If Yes, you are given an opportunity to name the Folder.
10. The Modify PATH window asks if you want to add the Acu4GL Bin directory to your path. Select Yes or No. Yes allows you to be able to run the executables from any directory.
11. The Start Copy window, displays the settings you selected, and asks you to verify them. Select Next to continue, or use the Back button to make changes to previous windows.
12. The copy procedure begins, and is marked by two copy progress boxes.
13. Change diskettes as directed.
14. When the copying is finished, the program tells you of this via the Complete window. Click the OK button.
License File and Setup Information
The ACUCOBOL-GT license file for the runtime (wrun32.alc) and the license file for the Acu4GL interface to DBMaker (wrun32.klc) must be located in the same directory as the runtime executable. If you rename your runtime executable, be sure to rename your license files to use the same base name, with the extensions unchanged. For example, if you rename your runtime to be myprog, then the license file for the Acu4GL interface for DBMaker should be renamed myprog.alc, and the license file for the runtime should be renamed myprog.klc.
Now be sure to set up your DBMaker database as instructed in the DBMaker-supplied documentation, and then enter the database name in the configuration variable A-DBM-DATABASE as described in the Configuration File Variables topic, also below. If necessary, be sure to set A-DBM-PASSWD and A-DBM-LOGIN. Also set DEFAULT-HOST. See the Configuration File Variables topic for more information.
A Note About Relinking for Windows 95/98/NT Users
Relinking is not required for Windows 95/98/NT users (but it is required for UNIX users and is explained in the next section). There are two ways for Windows 95/98/NT users to access DBMaker -through a .DLL file detected at runtime, or by statically linking the object into the runtime. For ease of use, we strongly suggest letting the runtime detect the .DLL file.
Windows 95/98/NT users should next go to Setting Up a User Account in the Database .