OPOOL FOR WINDOWS ver. 3.0
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for automatic and manual
illustration and for upgrading from ver. 2.5.

PLEASE NOTE:  WINDOWS 3.1 OR HIGHER REQUIRED!


CAUTION: AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION WILL OVERWRITE ANY
         EXISTING FILES IN THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY
         OF THE SAME NAME. IF YOU HAVE AN
         NFLSCHED.DTW FILE WITH 1995 RESULTS, MAKE
         A BACKUP COPY, THEN RECOPY IT TO THE
         DESTINATION DIRECTORY UNDER ITS ORIGINAL
         NAME AFTER INSTALLATION. OTHERWISE THE
         1995 RESULTS YOU ENTERED WILL BE LOST.

NOTE:	BOTH NFLSCHED.DTW AND PLAYERS.DTW HAVE NEW FORMATS
	FOR VERSION 2.5 AND LATER. ATTEMPTING TO USE AN 
        NFLSCHED FILE WITH AN OLDER FORMAT WILL PRODUCE AN 
	ERROR MESSAGE.  OPOOL/WIN 3.0 WILL GIVE YOU THE 
	OPTION OF AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTING AN OLDER 
	PLAYERS.DTW FILE TO THE NEW FORMAT. 
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS USING INSTALL.EXE (see below
for manual installation)

NOTE: If you receive the program as a zipped or self-
      extracting zipped file, be sure to extract the
      files listed below to an empty disk or directory
      before following the installation instructions.

1.   If you have the program on a floppy disk, make sure
     you are running Windows.  Insert the disk in Drive A:
     or Drive B: and launch INSTALL.EXE by choosing
     RUN from the Windows Program Manager or by double-
     clicking on the file name INSTALL.EXE in a File
     Manager window. The files on the floppy disk should
     include:

               OPOOLW.EXE
               NFLSCHED.DTW
               OPOOLW.INI
               OPOOL30.HLP
               CTL3DV2.DLL
               INSTALL.EXE
               OPICKS.EXE
               OPICKS.HLP
               README30.TXT
               REGISTER.TXT
               INSTALL.TXT (This file)

     If you have the OPWIN30.ZIP or OPWIN30.EXE zipped files
     instead of a floppy, EXTRACT the zipped files to an empty
     directory on your hard disk, then launch INSTALL.EXE as
     above.

     The opening screen of the installation program has a menu
     with three top-level choices. The File menu is for exiting
     the installation program. The Help menu offers on-line 
     installation instructions similar to these and an About box.
     Choose Install from the menu to begin installation.

2.   In the dialog box that appears when the install program
     begins, type your name in the space provided, if the name
     is not already present. You cannot continue installation
     without an entry in the name box. An unregistered version
     will show a dummy registration number of 'X-00000000' in
     the other box. If you have a registered version, your
     actual registration number will appear. When done, click
     the OK button, or click the Cancel button to quit the
     installation program.

3.   After you have entered your name and registration number,
     a dialog box will prompt you for the source and destination
     directories for OPOOL/Win. The default source is the 
     directory from which you are running the INSTALL.EXE program, 
     and this should always be the same as the location of the
     other necessary files. The default destination is C:\OPOOLW. 
     Change the destination to install the program in a different 
     directory. If the specified destination directory does not
     exist on your hard drive, INSTALL.EXE will ask you if you 
     want to create the destination directory and, if you answer 
     Yes, will create it for you. When done specifying (or 
     confirming) the source and desination paths, click OK to 
     proceed, or click Cancel to quit.

4.   Unlike earlier releases of OPOOL/Win prior to version 2.5,
     OPOOL/Win Version 3.0 will NOT convert OPOOL/DOS PLAYERS.DAT 
     files to OPOOL/Win format. OPOOL/DOS is no longer distributed 
     or supported.

     NOTE:  The file OPOOLW.INI will be copied to your
     Windows directory, not the specified destination path.
     The file ctl3dv2.dll will be copied to your Windows
     System directory, but only if some version of the
     DLL does not already exist there (i.e., install.exe
     will NOT overwrite an exisiting ctl3dv2.dll).
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Install OPOOL/WIN manually as follows (see above for
  installation using INSTALL.EXE):

1.  Create a separate directory on your hard disk.
    The default should be C:\OPOOLW, but you can
    use any name DOS will accept.

2.  Copy OPWIN30.ZIP (or the self-extracting version,
    OPWIN30.EXE) to the new directory and extract
    the files.  Essential files for running OPOOL/WIN
    are OPOOLW.EXE, CTL3DV2.DLL, and NFLSCHED.DTW. IF
    AND ONLY IF your Windows System Directory (usually
    C:\Windows\System) does not contain CTL3DV2.DLL,
    move that file to your Windows System directory.
    PLAYERS.DTW, not distributed with the program,
    is also required. You must either build this file
    yourself or convert your existing file to OPOOL/WIN
    ver. 2.5/3.0 format (see item 3 below). The OPOOLW.INI
    file is very important, and should be copied to
    your Windows directory (usually C:\WINDOWS), but 
    you can run the program without it. Since there is no
    printed manual, the on-line help file,  OPOOLHLP.HLP
    is useful, though not essential.

3.  If you have an existing players.dtw file:

    OPOOL/WIN ver. 3.0 will detect a players.dtw file from
    versions earlier than 2.5 and give you the chance to 
    convert it to the present format. If you choose to convert, 
    all player names, locations, and other identifying data
    will be preserved. Since no player picks from earlier 
    seasons are used by ver. 3.0, none is preserved or converted.

    If you have no existing players.dtw file:

    OPOOL/WIN will create an empty PLAYERS.DTW file for
    you in your OPOOL/WIN directory the first time you
    run OPOOLW.EXE.  The file created in this way
    will have no players in it.  Select Roster
    Maintenance from the OPOOL/WIN Main Menu and
    select "Add/Edit Players" from the roster menu
    that pops up.  Enter the requested information
    for each player in your pool.

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To upgrade your OPOOL/Win ver. 2.5:

1.  Copy OPOOLW.EXE, ver. 3.0, over your existing working
    copy of ver. 2.5.

2.  Copy OPOOL30.HLP to your OPOOL/Win directory (you may
    delete OPOOLHLP.HLP, which was used by versions 2.5
    and earlier.
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RGP
Arlington, Virginia
August 28, 1995
