Buspkg-Ansi.txt  April 30, 2001  John Dudeck

Installing the SIM Business Package on Windows Me/NT/2000

Q: How do I install the SIM Business Package on a Windows Me/NT/2000
machine?

A: Installing on Windows Me/NT/2000 is similar to Windows 95/98, with 
one difference relating to ANSI screen processing. You cant use ANSI.SYS 
in your config.sys file, so it is necessary to use ANSI.COM in the bat 
file you use to start the Business Package.

1) Copy all the files over to the c: drive for \bat, \dbl, and \buspkg 
(with sub directories). If you used a CD-R to transfer the files, remember 
to turn off Read-Only on all the files in jcfile and glfile on the target 
machine after copying.

2) Download BUSPKG-ANSI.ZIP, unzip the files and place them in your \bat 
directory. This puts ANSI.COM into the directory, as well as three sample 
bat files for starting the Business Package: menu-a.bat, menuc-a.bat, 
and menud-a.bat. These bat files include the lines:

 c:\bat\ansi.com

at the beginning of the file and:

 c:\bat\ansi.com /u

at the end of the file to unload it.

3) Add
 ;c:\dbl
to the end of any existing PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT. If there is no 
path statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT, add the following line:
 path c:\windows\command;c:\windows;c:\dbl
and reboot.

4) Create a shortcut icon on the desktop to run c:\bat\menu-a.bat. Right-
click the icon and click on properties. Click on Program, and check 
Close on exit. Change the icon to something interesting if you like. Click 
on Memory, and change Initial environment to 1024. Click OK.

5) You should now be able to run the software by double-clicking the 
desktop icon. You can toggle between full-screen and windowed mode with 
Alt-Enter.

6) If the printer is different or on a different port (unlikely) remember 
to set it up in the Output Devices section.

Q: When I click on the icon to start the Business Package, I get a long 
string of garbled text at the top of the screen instead of being layed out 
normally.

A: The ansi.com driver isnt loaded. The bat file which you use to start 
the Business Package should have the line:

 c:\bat\ansi.com

near the top of the file and the line:

 c:\bat\ansi.com /u

near the bottom of the file. This assumes you have ANSI.COM in the c:\bat 
directory. If you have put it somewhere else, you will need to edit the 
bat file to with the correct path.

Q: Ive transferred all the files in BAT, DBL and BUSPKG, including 
subdirectories. I also did the ansi.com command in the menu.bat file.  
Running menu.bat gives me this:
 C:\BAT>menu
 C:\BAT>echo off
 Bad command or file name
I'm running the standard menu.bat which works on other machines.

A: The bat file is not finding the path to the \dbl directory. You need to 
add c:\dbl to the path in autoexec.bat and reboot.