Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wpwin-l
Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:01:20 -0600
From:         "JEROME E. COFFEY" <uenjc%msu.dnet@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: WPwin Quick Installation Guide (novell 3.11)
X-To:         WPWIN-L@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu%TERRA.dnet@terra.oscs.montana.edu

>Subj:	WPwin Quick Installation Guide (novell 3.11)

> Hi .....


> has anybody a quick installtion guide, which describes the
> installation of WP-Win 5.1 (Windows 3.1, Novell 3.11) ?
> Which files can be shared, which are user-dependend, where
> should I store these files ...(windows and wp-files) ???

> ... thanks

I do not know how these suggestions might work on a LAN, but I wrote an article
which configured WP DOS 5.1 and WP WIN 5.1 together. You might try these tips.
I suspect that if you run other WP applications as well, common files can also
be shared in the WPC directory.  The article (which appeared greatly altered in
PC COMPUTING, April 1992) is appended.  Good luck.

P.S.  I also wrote a batch file to do the configuration automatically and can
post that if anyone wants it.

                      PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE:
       CONFIGURING WP 5.1 WINDOWS AND WP 5.1 DOS TOGETHER


WordPerfect for Windows has arrived at last.  As a devoted WP DOS
user, you have been anticipating the moment when you could, after
so many months of falsely promised release dates, finally type
install.  Your excitement is diminished when the screen announces
that WordPerfect for Windows will demand almost 10 MB of your hard
drive.  If you decide, as I expect you will, to keep your DOS
version as well, that will require an additional 5 MB.  Now if you
are the average PC user with a 40 or 60 MB hard drive, that seems
like an almost obscene amount of space for a single program to
demand even if it is your principal application.  Well you needn't
despair.  By following these configuration instructions you can
recover 2 MB of your hard drive and actually enhance the
functionality of both versions.

I assume that you will want to run both WP DOS and WP Windows and
the WordPerfect Corporation licensing agreement allows for this.
You may upgrade to Windows without deleting your DOS version.  Each
program has its strengths and weakness.  WP DOS is faster during
the composing process, search and replace operations, spell
checking, merging etc. Printing is usually significantly slower in
the Windows environment even when using the faster WP print
drivers.  But when it comes to layout and graphics, the Windows
WYSIWYG offers real advantages.  So by keeping both versions, you
will have the best of both worlds and by configuring them together
properly, you will be able to move seamlessly between them.

Before installing WP Windows, you will need to do a little
reorganization of your files.  Both WP 5.1 DOS and WP 5.1 Windows
use the same text files and no conversion is required.  So if you
haven't done so already, move all of your WP document files into
the same directory or logical drive; for example, C:\WPDOCS.  This
will make the backup of your working files much quicker and enable
you to point both WP versions easily to the same texts.  If some of
your WP files use the .TXT extension, change them to something
else.  Otherwise Windows Notepad will try to access these files
assuming that they are plain ASCII text.  Now is also the perfect
occasion to do some basic housekeeping as well: archiving those
stale files just taking up hard drive space and organizing your WP
sub-directories for logical and quick access.  Finally, create the
sub-directory C:\WP51\MACROS and move all of the C:\WP51\*.WPM and
*.WPK files there.  The DOS and Windows macros are not compatible
and you will need separate sub-directories for each.

Now install WP5.1 for Windows and accept the default directory
assignments.  Choose your printer(s) and exit install.  Open WP
Windows for the first time so that the printer .ALL files can
create the print driver .PRS files.  You may now exit to DOS and
survey the damage.  If the amount of space this process has taken
makes you shudder in horror, relax; we are about to reclaim some of
your precious real estate.  As a precautionary measure backup
C:\WP51, C:\WPC and C:\WPWIN so that if you accidentally delete an
essential file, you can recover easily.  Save the *.ALL files in
C:\WPC to a disk.  You will need the .ALL files in uncompressed
form if later you decide to change the paper path or install
additional soft fonts. The four README.* files and MACRO.DOC in
C:\WPWIN should be either printed out or saved to a disk and then
deleted from your hard drive.  Move all of the graphics files
(*.WPG) in C:\WP51 to C:\WPWIN\GRAPHICS or, if space is at a
premium, save them to a disk.  The graphics files are completely
interchangeable and will be most likely used in the Windows
environment.

Now the real fun begins: eliminating duplication.  The basic
principle is that any file with the same name is equivalent and
should be shared if at all possible.  A second principle is that
the newer versions of files are to be used and the earlier versions
deleted.  There are, as you shall see, a few minor exceptions to
these rules.  Print out the directories of C:\WP51, C:\WPC and
C:\WPWIN and compare the file listings or, easier yet, run a
utility that lists duplicate files.  You will quickly see that the
amount of waste is enormous.

Go into WP DOS Setup, Location of Files (Shift-F1, 6) and make
assignments following Fig. 1.  Of course, you should modify nos. 1
and 7 according to the location of your document and temporary
files.  Next exit WP DOS and open WP Windows.  Under File pull down
Preferences, Location of Files and specify the location of your
document and backup files.  It is important to use a different
directory for your Windows and DOS Backup Files; otherwise WP DOS
and WP Windows get confused into thinking there are multiple
versions running and the warning screens will drive you crazy.
Accept the default settings for the rest and exit to DOS.  Now all
of the printer, speller, thesaurus and style files may be shared
between the two versions of WP and, since you will be using the
latest versions of all of these files, you will actually gain some
enhancements when running WP5.1 DOS.



   Setup: Location of Files

      1 - Backup Files                   D:\WPTEMP

      2 - Keyboard/Macro Files           C:\WP51\MACROS

      3 - Thesaurus/Spell/Hyphenation
                         Main            C:\WPC
                         Supplementary   C:\WPC

      4 - Printer Files                  C:\WPC

      5 - Style Files                    C:\WPWIN
                Library Filename         C:\WPWIN\LIBRARY.STY

      6 - Graphic Files                  C:\WPWIN\GRAPHICS

      7 - Documents                      C:\WPDOCS


Figure 1

You may now delete or move all of the printer, spelling, style,
thesaurus and duplicate utility files from C\WP51.  The
C:\WP51\*.PRS and *.ALL files should be sent to the trash can.
There is one important exception: if you printer manufacturer has
supplied an .ALL file with built-in fonts, move that file to C:\WPC
so that it may create its own driver.  You may wish to experiment
to see whether the manufacturer's driver or the WP driver works
best for you.  On the C:\WP51 delete list are GRAPHCNV.EXE,
LIBRARY.STY, PTR.EXE, PTR.HLP, SPELL.EXE, WP.DRS, WP{WP}US.LEX and
WP{WP}US.THS.  I hope you take as much joy as I did in sending some
of these lunkers to the trash bin.

Now move the following C:\WP51 files to C:\WPC: WP{WP}.SPW,
WP{WP}US.HYC, and WP{WP}US.SUP.  These files include your
supplementary spelling and hyphenation files.  Please note,
however, that If you have duplicate .HYC and .SUP files already in
C:\WPC, do not copy the DOS versions over the top of them. These
files should be consolidated together. The easiest way to do this
is to retrieve these Windows files into WP DOS and simply
spellcheck and hyphenate the files using the add option for each
word.  You may then safely delete the Windows versions before
moving the corresponding DOS files to C:\WPC.

 ENHANDLER.PS (only needed if you have a PostScript printer
installed) should either be moved to C:\WPC or deleted if a newer
version already exists in that directory.  Now do a thorough test
of the spell, print, thesaurus, style, and View Document functions
in both WP DOS and WP Windows.  I would print CHARMAP.TST,
KERN.TST, and PRINTER.TST in both programs and save these files to
disk if space is still tight and you run into no problems.

Assuming all went well, you may now survey your hard drive to
discover that you have reclaimed almost 2 MB of room.  You will
also note that not all duplication has been eliminated:
INSTALL.EXE, WP.LRS, WP.QRS, WP{WP}.SET, and WP{WP}US.LCN are
required in both the C:\WP51 and C:\WPWIN directories.  With the
exception of the INSTALL program and the .SET file they are
equivalent, but there is no way to share them (are you listening in
Orem?).  I would, however, recommend using the newer versions of
WP.LRS and WP.QRS in C:\WP51.

The final cleanup is up to you.  Study the WordPerfect Files
appendices in both manuals and look for functions that are never
used.  Perhaps there is an old video or graphics driver that is
just a relic from the past or in a resolution you don't need
(extensions .FRS and .VRS).  If you have completed both tutorials,
those files might be good candidates for the trash pile as well.
Rarely used utilities might be run from a floppy disk if space  is
still tight.

As you begin to play with and enjoy WP5.1 for Windows, one word of
caution: take careful note of the difference between Save and Save
as ....  Unlike the DOS version WP Windows Save does not prompt you
before it overwrites a previous version of a text.  I personally
find that inexcusable (Are you still listening in Orem?).

If you have followed this configuration advice, you should be ready
write "the great American novel."  Compose it in DOS, do the layout
in Windows and return to DOS to print it.  There might even be
enough headroom now to store the entire text on your hard drive.

Footnote:  If you prefer to automate you this configuration rather
than do it manually and have a standard installation with default
directories and subdirectories, you may wish to order this month's
disk.  Included on the disk is the program WPCONFIG.  Running
WPCONFIG will achieve essentially the same result as doing the
manual configuration described in the article.


Copyrighted by:

Jerry Coffey
1615 S. Black No. 74
Bozeman MT 59715
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