Default installation folder is "C:\KLIP". A path can be changed. If the folder does not exist, it will be created. If in stated place already is the game, the player module will be update. All settings and data of the games will be saved.
If you changed installation folder, update may be uncomfortable for you. In this case it is necessary to copy installation archive to the game folder. Now to refresh the version it is possible without complete path. If the space put instead of path, the game will be update to the current folder.
Installation is extraction few files and folders from archives. Installation does not do any other acts. It does not make relations to path and does not change any files or parameters.
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Run KLIP.EXE. If the libraries FoxPro are not found, report "Cannot locate the desired version of FoxPro" or "Cannot locate FoxPro support library" will appear. Copy the libraries to the game folder.
If there are no official files and/or folder, they will be created in time of first start. Setting of directories: HISTORY for copies of general and personal reports; IN - for incoming mail; OUT - for outgoing mail.
System information is put in time of second start. A version for WINDOWS asks about font. I recommend using fixed width fonts, for example, Courier New. It is in standard WINDOWS. Default font size is 10. If a dialogue window is possible to read, do not change a font and size. You will be able to change its later.
You will be asked, how you want join to the game?
1) To connect to last started game (default).
2) To play in new party. Your claim will be laid until the accumulation of some amount of wishful. If them will be more 15 persons, then will be declared a new game.
You will get a 2 or more letters from server. First is identical for everybody. The generally tenders results and statistic data will be in it. Except of this, there will be the letters with data of concrete player. A command "Load mail" processes all of letters together at the same time.
There are two paths how to provide access to findings.
1) IT WORKS ALWAYS, IT IS LIGHTLY TO TUNE, BUT IT NEEDS SPECIAL COMMANDS FOR PRESERVATION OF LETTERS IN NECESSARY PLACE. In some folder (for example, IN) the letters will be dislocated as separated files. The old files can be deleted. Very important, the general and personal letters not to rub out a each other. In a field "File of incoming mail" it is necessary to show a path. For example, if you will use a folder IN, then sufficiently to show IN\*.* This method supposes creation of a few files. It needs to set a flag "To search incoming mail in all files in folder" OBLIGATORILY. To this case the names and files extensions are not important. If instead of template "*.*" will be showed a file name or another template, all files in the folder will be looked over.
Files with letters can be created in several methods. Choose most understandable method for you:
- This is the most universal method. Save all incoming letters as text files. Usually, the postal systems allow to do a command "Save as...". Do not forget to show a file type as a text. Usually, other types also can be processed. But the problems can be. For example, it is with type HTML.
- Sometimes postal systems have support "Drag-and-Drop". You can bring along letter headline and dislocate it in necessary folder on disc (do not confuse with folder in a postal system). Created files can have not a text type. Its can contain supplementary official information. Its can have specific extensions. But a player module must correctly process its.
- If your postal program works under WINDOWS (version of players module is not important), text of letters can be copied by standard means. Open a letter, select all text and copy it (Ctrl+C). Then open the game folder. Open a file for recording letters by editor NOTEBOOK. If there is no file, simply open an editor NOTEBOOK and then save a file in the game folder. Name of file may be any. It is recommended to use extension TXT. Delete away all old data. Paste new letter (Crtl+V). Now you can return to postal program. Copy the rest of letters. They can be copied one after another in one file.
2) IT WORKS NOT FOR ALL POSTAL SYSTEMS, MORE DIFFICULT TO DISPOSE IT, BUT IT DOES NOT NEED SPECIAL COMMAND EVERYDAY. Information can be read immediately from storage of your postal program. But it can be do, if a postal program keeps the letters without coding in own formats. Unfortunately, MS Outlook keeps the letters in coded condition. Some postal programs (for example, Outlook Express for WINDOWS 3.XX) saving separate letter in separate file, and separate folder in postal program has its folder on disc. Other programs put letter in one file. For example, Outlook Express for WINDOWS'95/98. It folders for letters are the separated files in which all of letters lie. For Outlook Express 4 this is file "\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail\Entering.mbx". For Outlook Express 5 this is file "\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{AA6DE160-0E99-11D4-86AC-F7FD1D5DF32D}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Entering.dbx". A path can be supplied while using WINDOWS NT, for example: "\WINNT\Profiles\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail\Entering.mbx". A path and name can be another on your computer. Try to find files with the "mbx" or "dbx" extension. If you have other mail program, to search it is necessary in a folder, where this program is installed.
FoxPro 2.6 does not work with long names. A name will have appearance "C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\IDENTI~1\{AA6DE~1\MICROS~1\OUTLOO~1\ENTERING.DBX". Path and file name with mail is necessary to show in field "File of incoming mail". If a postal program for each separate letter creates a separate file, is necessary mark on "To search incoming mail in all files in folder". If all letters are kept in one file, is necessary mark off "To search incoming mail in all files in folder". This will may a view of only one file. Herewith supposes, that a file has a "store" type: the new letters are writing in end of file (not to confuse with headlines sorting). A view of such file begins from place, where was finished a previous view.
You can use message sorter. It can put the letter at once in separate folder of postal system: it will group all game letters. In this case you must yourself find the filename, where the letters are storage.
If all aforesaid is too incomprehensible, let path be "IN\*.*". You will be able to experiment after receipt answer from server.
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