======================== README.txt ======================== Online Documentation Library for PC (ODL-PC) Beta V1.2 for Compaq Tru64 UNIX, October, 2000 (U00Q4_1) This ODL-PC release is a beta version for evaluation purposes only. Refer to the license agreement in the installation for further details. Requirements: 486 PC or higher, 24Mb or more of memory, approx. 2Mb hard disk space, a CD-ROM reader, Windows 95 or higher or Windows NT 4.0 or higher (NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 preferred for full text scrolling capability and thread support, see below for details), Adobe Acrobat reader software. The ODL-PC can be installed by double-clicking on the "Setup.exe" file in this directory from Windows Explorer, or entering "J:\setup.exe" from the "Start/Run" menu, where "J:" is the CD drive that this CD-ROM disk is mounted on. If you already have the ODL-PC installed on your system from the July release (U00Q3, ODL-PC V1.1), you will have to run the setup program twice, as the first time uninstalls your currently installed version (V1.1). Alternatively, you can uninstall the V1.1 version through the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs prior to running the setup program. NOTE: As a general guideline, it is recommended that you have a recent backup of your registry and Windows Emergency Repair Diskette (RDISK/S) prior to installing and running this or any other beta version software on your PC. IMPORTANT: When installing from Windows 2000, you MUST run the installation AND the BNU itself from an account that has administrator privileges. Otherwise, the BNU will not be able to access the registry settings it needs, and will fail to start up. The ODL-PC consists of the Bookshelf Navigation Utility for PC (BNU-PC) Bookreader-PC, and the book and bookshelf content files for the release. Book content files are in Bookreader, HTML, and Adobe Acrobat PDF formats. After installing, the ODL-PC is accessed by selecting the "BNU" shortcut from the "Start/Programs/Compaq ODL" folder on your desktop. BNU displays the bookshelf hierarchy for the ODL using the Windows tree control. Double-click, single click the +/- icons, or use the cursor keys to expand and collapse the bookshelves. When a book is double-clicked or enter is hit on a selected book within BNU, the appropriate viewer is launched. Bookreader-PC uses a similar tree control to display the Table of Contents (TOC) for a Bookreader book in the left hand view of a splitter window. Single click on the right or left hand view of the splitter window or hit the tab key to toggle focus between the TOC view and the text (book content) view. Standard scrolling functions are available in both views, including page-up, page-down, cursor up/down for single line scrolling, etc. The ODL-PC V1.2 has a few new features as compared to the V1.1 version on the July release of the ODL-PC (U00Q3). These include a "Copy ODL" program which automates the copying of the CD-ROM to a hard disk, the ability to set a "zoom" ratio and color setting from the "View" menu of Bookreader-PC. Unfortunately, there is currently no User Guide or Help for BNU-PC or Bookreader-PC. Please experiment with the menu options to try out various features such as Search, Find, Bookmarks, Navigation lists, and tree display options. Search: BNU utilizes two forms of search: 1) Search on book titles only. 2) AltaVista content search. AltaVista search is based on the AltaVista Search for CD-ROM toolkit. Note that in the AltaVista results list, there are two links displayed for each search hit. Click on the first link for Bookreader hits to display the book in a separate window. Clicking on the second link attempts to bring up Bookreader in the browser window, which is not supported in Windows (single view apps only, no splitter window apps within Active X document container windows). Once the book containing the search hit is opened, Bookreader and the other viewers all support a content "find" function to position to the search hit(s). Print: Print is currently not supported from Bookreader-PC. Known problems/limitations: On Windows 95 and Windows 98: There are known problems in Bookreader-PC managing multiple threads used to bring up popup graphic and/or topic windows accessed from clicking a hotspot (green rectangle with retangle cursor) in the text view. Bringing up several topics without shutting down old ones has been known to lock up the process and possibly the entire system. Popup windows come up minimized in Windows 95 and Windows 98. Click on the task bar window icons to view them. On all platforms: popup graphics display for the vast majority, however some formats are not yet supported and do not display. We are interested to hear about specific book/hotspot instances if they are encountered. Scrolling in Windows 95 and Windows 98: device coordinates here are limited to 16 bits. Scrolling on these platforms in Bookreader-PC is periodic within a range for large books. Entire books can be viewed and navigated using the TOC, but long scrolling within the text view is limited. All other positioning related functionality (hotspots, navigation lists, bookmarks, etc) works. Thumb scrolling on all platforms: is also limited to 16 bits (Windows messages). Thus, on the larger books, thumb scrolling generally works but can have a "rubber band" type of effect if the drag is too far and/or fast. Table formatting and alignment: is and always will be somewhat problematic. Feedback: We appreciate your taking the time to evaluate the ODL-PC and welcome your comments and feedback. Please send mail to: ODLCDROM@Compaq.com Please also participate in the Software Product Library survey found at http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/odl/odlsurvey.html For additional information regarding possible future bug-fixes or updates to the ODL-PC, please refer to the following website: http://www.openvms.compaq.com/new/index.html under the "New - Compaq Online Documentation" link. This can be accessed directly through "http://www.openvms.compaq.com/odl_axp_beta.html". Currently, this web page contains an update ONLY for the ODL-PC version for OpenVMS documentation for the AXPDOCSEP00 release. Should the need arise to update the release contained on this CD-ROM, (Tru64 UNIX ODL-PC V1.2, U00Q4), a link under "http://tru64unix.compaq.com/ faqs/publications/pub_page/pubs_page.html" would also be referenced from the OpenVMS pages.