FIVFIV 98d -- Downloading Instructions

The authors of FIVFIV continue to strive to keep the costs of distributing and maintaining the FIVFIV package as low as possible. Minimal fees, however, are necessary to cover costs involved.

Users who are interested in testing the software, may download an evaluation copy of FIVFIV 98d. Registered users of FIVFIV 98 may download the FIVFIV 98d maintenance release at no charge. The evaluation copy is fully functional and contains all the features of the registered version. We put our trust the end-user community to pay the registration fee if the software if found to be useful. Please keep in mind that maintaining and supporting FIVFIV does cost us money and the only way we can continue to make the software available is if users make the effort to support the product by paying their registration fees.

• You may evaluate FIVFIV Release 98d software for a two week period.

• If you wish to continue using the software after the evaluation period, we request that you register the software and pay the US$79.95 registration fee. In addition to the right to keep using the software after the two week evaluation period, when you register the software, you will recieve a diskette and a printed copy of the publication Computational Methods for Population Projections.

Re-Distribution/Copying

FIVFIV 98d is copyright HPN Technologies, Inc. and Frederic C. Shorter. The software may not be copied or re-distributed in whole or part for any reason by any means. If you do recieve a copy of FIVFIV 98d from a source other than HPN Technologies, Inc. we still request that you send in the above fees should you decide to use the software.

Installing the Evaluation Copy of FIVFIV 98d

See our technical note for restrictions of the software on newer computers.

The following files may be downloaded for evaluation purposes. All files are in ZIP format (.ZIP) (you will require the pkunzip program (version 2.04g or later) to extract the .ZIP files, if you do not have a copy of PKZIP, it is a shareware program available at: http://www.pkware.com/download.html.

    readme.txt  (size: 13,015)
    program.zip (size: 393,965)
    manual.zip  (size: 2,922,915)
  

Uncompress the .zip format files as follows:

pkunzip  -d  file.ZIP  destination
  

where "destination" is the location on your hard disk where you want the files to go. All files will decompress into a subdirectory \FIV of the "destination". It is recommended that you decompress to the root, of your hard disk, that is:

pkunzip  -d  program.zip  c:\
pkunzip  -d  manual.zip   c:\
  

which will decompress all files into the subdirectory \FIV off of your c: root directory (note: this will not decompress into the root directory itself.)

Note that the manual is in Adobe Acrobat format and must be viewed with the Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have the Acrobat reader, it is available as freeware at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/readstep.html.

Installation

The following instructions will assume you used the recommended decompression statements above so that all software is located in C:\FIV. If this is not the case, you should adjust the following instructions accordingly.

FIVFIV Program:

Once you have downloaded the files, you are ready to use the system. The only installation really required is to put C:\FIV in the PATH statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You may do this manually via a text editor, or let the FIVFIV installation do it for you. To let the FIVFIV installation do it for you, at the C> prompt, type:

C:\FIV\FIVINSTAL [ENTER]
  

and follow the instructions on the screen. Note: the Install From directory should be changed from A: to C:\FIV. (You will be warned that C:\FIV already exists and information will be overwritten, this is OK. You will also see messages indicating that files cannot be copied onto themselves -- this is also OK.)

Language Modules

The program will initially install with the English language module. You may change to a different language module by doing the following. At the C> prompt, type:

C:\FIV\FIVTRANS [ENTER]
  

and follow the instructions on the screen. Note: you should indicate the drive containing the language diskette is C:\FIV (not A:).

Note: The language installation procedure modifies .EXE files. Your virus protection software may object to this and prompt you for your approval.

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