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3 Installation and operation


3.1 Installation

Installation

At first, copy the complete MAPS-folder to any partition you like. If you don't want to use the default installation German, you can install mapS in English language:
There are two folders, named "GERMAN" and "ENGLISH". Choose the folder of the language you want to choose and copy the whole content one step out of this folder, that means in the directory, where maps.prg is located.
If you want to use ST-Guide as Help-System, copy mapS.hyp and mapS.ref into your Hypertext folder or the root where mapS.prg is located.
Run mapS.prg.

3.2 The operation of mapS

The operation of mapS

mapS is easy to handle and has just got a main-dialog-window, a menue bar does not exist.
If you have installed Bubble-Help, you can get an information to any dialog elemnt by clicking the right mouse key.

Table 1: Operation of the main-dialog
Dialog-field/Button explanation
Addresses Select the address-file to use.
Mailtext Select the mail-text you want to send.
Subject Enter subject of the mix-mail here.
MyMail For proper operation, you have to select the path where MyMail is located.
Info Info-dialog and registration
Help Opens this HYP-page.
Quit Saves settings and leaves the program.
Print Mails to MyMail Appends the mix-mails to qmail.txt.

When you have started the output of the mails, in the first run mapS checks, if every data-set of the address-file has the right number of elements. If the program recognises an error it will be alerted and no output will be made. With $OFF and $ON encapsulated parts are simply ignored.

3.3 The Online-Help

mapS offers two possibilities:

ST-Guide:
To use that help, you must have installed the ST-Guide Hypertext-System as help-system. MAPS.HYP and MAPS.REF can either be located in the root of MAPS.PRG or in the hypertext-folder.
Bubble-Help:
If you have installed Bubble-Help, you can get a short help text on any dialog-element by pressing the right mouse-button.




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