***************************************************************** "readme.txt" for PRO/5 Data Server(R) for Microsoft Windows ***************************************************************** ================================================================= CONTENTS ================================================================= 1. RESOURCES 2. OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ================================================================= 1. RESOURCES ================================================================= RELEASE NOTES The release notes document contains new features, product notes, known issues and support information. Please review this file, relnotes.txt, located in your BASIS product directory. INSTALLATION GUIDE The installation guide contains comprehensive installation and licensing instructions. Please review this file, install.txt, located in your BASIS product directory. CD-ROM MANUAL If you received this product on CD-ROM, the online manual can be viewed or printed with either Internet Explorer (4.0 or above) or the Netscape Navigator (4.0 or above) under UNIX or Microsoft Windows. Internet Explorer performs much faster so it is the preferred browser. Refer to the readme.txt file on the CD-ROM for more information. This online documentation may also be viewed from the BASIS Web site http://www.basis.com/devtools/documentation/index.html Note: The HTML documentation is dynamically generated. Therefore, bookmarks created for previous versions are likely to fail because the individual HTML filenames may differ. FLEXLM END USER MANUAL Included in our online manual is the FLEXlm End User Manual. This manual contains valuable information about our License Manager, including utilities that monitor the status of the BASIS License Manager. ================================================================= 2. OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ================================================================= ===WINDOWS NT REQUIREMENTS=== On Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, the Setup program will exit if the appropriate Service Pack has not been installed on the target machine. These Service Packs are available from the Microsoft FTP site: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ Users outside the United States can refer to a list of alternative code pages in the /bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes directory. Users within the United States can follow the directions below. Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 5 --- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt351/ussp5 Select the i386 directory and the SP5_351I.EXE file, which is compressed to approximately 13 MB. Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 (required) --- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/ussp4 Select the i386 directory and the sp4schki.exe file. Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a (optional) --- http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/SP6/allSP6.asp ===UNINSTALLING THE NT DATA SERVER=== The NT Data Server is a service. Uninstalling the product will stop the service, regardless of whether or not there are open connections to the server. The uninstallation process prompts for verification before stopping the service and removing the product files. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1985-2003 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. BBx(R), Visual PRO/5(R), PRO/5(R), PRO/5 Data Server(R), GUIBuilder(R), ResBuilder(R), BASIS ODBC Driver(R), DDBuilder(R) and BBj(R) are registered trademarks of BASIS International Ltd. All other product names and brand names are service marks and/or trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. [end of file]