INSTALLATION EXISTING USERS START HERE If you have installed a previous version of FORM you should do two things.

1. backup your sstools.ini file to prevent it being overwritten. 2. backup your FORM.EXE until you have verified that everything looks OK under the new version. Everything should work <grin> but who can say for sure? NEW USERS START HERE To install this version of the form program you should first create a directory for it (In this doc we will call this directory C:\FORM). Change to that directory. Then type pkunzip -d FORM06, this will extract the files from the archive into the current directory creating sub directories as needed. NOTE you must extract with the -d option. When you have finished you should have a directory structure like this C:\FORM | + SHAPES + OTHERS + FORMINCS + DOCS This directory contains form.exe, and a sample sstools.inx some sample shapes some more shapes by other people (well worth a look) hummm? the docs

rename SSTOOLS.INX to SSTOOLS.INI read the section in tutor.doc on configuring, this will help you to get better resolution displays at a much faster rate. Now read the tutorial. Then FAQ.DOC and then if you're a real sucker for punishment read FORM.DOC and LANGUAGE.DOC OLD o o o o USERS START HERE Back up everything, I can't be responsible for my changes. Read whatsnew.txt for version 6.0 . Read problem.txt. If you are upgrading from version 4 or earlier run the program "4to5.exe" on each file this will (fingers crossed) convert your files so that they will at least be acceptable to FORM5.