If your customers do not already have the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in installed on their machine when they try to launch your application, they are informed that a plug-in for the file type was not found. Instruct them to license a copy of the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in and install it on their machine. The installation script automatically makes a file type association for ACUCOBOL-GT object files (i.e. ".acu" extension) with the runtime.
To use the plug-in with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, users must configure the browser to enable "ActiveX controls and plugins". To do this, they should check the appropriate box in the Security tab of the Internet Explorer Options dialog. If they are using Netscape Navigator, your users can use Navigator's "Help/About Plugins" feature to check the plug-in installation. They should see the following text displayed in their browser's window:
ACUCOBOL-GT RuntimeFile name: C:\EARTHLNK\NETSCAPE\NAVIGATOR\PROGRAM\Plugins\NPacu32.dll
ACUCOBOL-GT Runtime Plug-in for Win32 version 4.3.0
Copyright (C) 1999 Acucorp, Inc.
Mime Type Description Suffixes
Enabled application/vnd.acucobol ACUCOBOL-GT Runtime acu
If your COBOL application requires access to resources on the user's machine or local network, then your user must also edit the plug-in authorization file, "acuauth.txt," to allow access to local directories. We recommend designing your application so that this is not necessary. Using AcuServer and/or AcuConnect, you can design your application to utilize remote application and data resources.
See also: Installing the Plug-in Manually