This is version 2.06 of UPDATE with Update Configurator.  UPDATE and Update
Configurator is copyright Steen Varsted Software 1997, 1998, all rights
reserved.  The latest version of UPDATE and Update Configurator is available
on the internet at the address http://www.svsoft.dk/update.html.



Introduction:
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Update Configurator can install and maintain Windows 9x workstations on a
network.  It is aimed at schools, institutions and companies with
groups of identical workstations that have a lot of different users that
can not allways be trusted to leave the workstation as they found it.

Apart from this, UPDATE can be used as an advanced XCOPY with the ability
to copy long filenames and hidden files even under DOS.

Update Configurator and UPDATE will:

 o Ease the installation of new workstations.
       With Update Configurator you only have to install Windows 9x to a
       single workstation. Then you can use Update Configurator to create
       an archive on your server and copy the contents of the workstation
       to the archive. With the special Update Configurator bootdisk you
       can now set up new workstations with customized name, description
       and IP address.

 o Maintain configured workstations.
       Update Configurator will configure your workstations to make their
       harddisk(s) match a specific archive on each boot.  This will delete
       new files and copy changed/deleted files down from the archive.
       -Your users will allways find the workstations the same after a boot.

 o Ease the installation of new programs.
       Install the new program to a single workstation and copy it to the
       archive with Update Configurator.  You can now change the archive
       version of any workstation using the archive to have the program
       copied to their harddisk on the next boot (new registry settings
       will not be present until the second boot).

 o Enable quick error recovery.
       If the system on one of your configured workstations has been ruined
       to the point were it can not run UPDATE (the program to make the
       harddisk match an archive), just boot it from the Update Configurator
       Boot Diskette and it will automatically recover.

 o Allow experiments with configurations.
       Update Configurator keeps a complete history of changes to an archive.
       This makes it safe to experiment with new settings/installation of
       new programs.  Just make your experiments and save the results to the
       archive - until you explicitly change the archive version used by
       the workstations this will have no effect but to allow you to pick
       up were you left some other day.



Files:
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CFGMGR32.DLL  Used by SETUP.EXE.
FILE_ID.DIZ   Short description.
HELP.CAB      A cabinet file containing the help files for
              Update Configurator.
INSTALL.DOC   Documentation for SETUP.EXE in Rich Text Format.  Can be
              viewed with WordPad or from within SETUP.EXE.
ORDERFRM.DK   Danish order form.
ORDERFRM.TXT  Order form.
README.DK     Danish version of this file.
README.TXT    This file.
ORDER.DK      Danish information on how to order UPDATE + Update
              Configurator.
ORDER.TXT     Information on how to order UPDATE + Update Configurator.
SETUP.EXE     The installation program.
SETUPAPI.DLL  Used by SETUP.EXE
SUPPORT.DK    Danish support information for the registered version of
              UPDATE + Update Configurator.
SUPPORT.TXT   Support information for the registered version of UPDATE +
              Update Configurator.
UPDATE.DOC    The documentation for UPDATE (ASCII).
UPDATE.EXE    The UPDATE executable.
UPDATE.PIF    Tells Windows 9x to close the UPDATE window when UPDATE
              has finished.
UPDATE.TXT    The synopsis for UPDATE (shown if UPDATE is run without
              arguments).
UPDCFG.CAB    A cabinet file with the rest of the executables.
UPDCFG.INF    Used by the installation program SETUP.EXE
VENDINFO.DIZ  Vendinfo file with README and various other information.



Installation:
=============

To install both UPDATE and Update Configurator run SETUP.EXE from a
workstation.  The file INSTALL.DOC contain more details about the
installation procedure in Rich Text Format.  It can be read from
SETUP.EXE or viewed with WordPad.

If you just want to use UPDATE as an advanced copy program you only need
the executable UPDATE.EXE, UPDATE.TXT and UPDATE.DOC - you should not run
SETUP.EXE in that case.  UPDATE.DOC is the documentation for UPDATE in
plain ASCII format.



Changes:
========

The major newcoming in UPDATE 2.00 is the first version of Update
Configurator, a Windows 9x program that will automate the task of
configuring UPDATE to maintain a number of Windows 9x workstations
with automatic detection of the workstations identity via the MAC address.

Additional new features of the UPDATE itself include:

 o Different handling of -i option to distinguish between files and
      directories.  The path following -i is taken to be a directory if
      and only if it ends in a '\'.  ***WARNING*** if a command such as
      'UPDATE c:\ f:\carc -i user' is run and a directory c:\user exists
      it will be deleted!  In order to ignore it, the command should be
      'UPDATE c:\ f:\carc -i user\'.

 o Wildcards are now allowed in the filename portion of the path in
      '-i' option.  E.g. '-i *.dat' will ignore all files with extension
      'dat' and '-i test?\' will ignore all directories with a five character
      name starting with 'test'.

 o New -l option to list the actions UPDATE would take to make the first
      argument the same as the second.  The -l option can be used on two
      different versions of the same archive.

 o Customizable synopsis.  If UPDATE is run without arguments it will
      no longer display a fixed synopsis.  It will look for the file
      UPDATE.TXT in the same directory as itself and display it if found.


