TrekTrak Release Notes
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Contents
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1. Copyright statement
2. Product Description
3. System Requirements
4. Installation instructions
5. Manifest of files within trekt.zip
6. How to contact PCPM Software
7. How to upgrade to TrekTrakPro


1. Copyright
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TrekTrak Version 1.0.5.0
Copyright (c) PCPM Software Limited 2001
This product is freeware.

2. Product Description
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TrekTrak is a powerful database for managing URLs.
It can be used alongside any browser and provides close integration with Internet Explorer.

By using a database to store your links, TrekTrak can call upon many powerful facilities which are standard fare in database applications.

Including:
Very Fast Location of URLs of interest;
Fast Grouping by key words;
Fast location of similar URLs;
Saved sub groups;
Attachment of own descriptions and notes to each URL;
Quick and easy editing of saved URLs and notes;
Find URL by part URL, part Name, part notes and where the search text 
can appear anywhere in the target and by combination of up to 6 key words;
Can handle very large numbers of links without difficulty, (tens of thousands);
Efficient use of disk space;
And More...

3. System Requirements
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TrekTrak uses Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)
version 2.5 or above which in turn uses DCOM.

If you are using Windows 2000, Windows ME or some other Microsoft products you will 
already have the appropriate version of MDAC installed.

On earlier systems, before installing TrekTrak, 
please run MDAC_Typ.exe which will check 
your installation of MDAC and upgrade if 
necessary.

If you are running Windows 95 you will also
need DCOM95.  Please run DCOM95.exe which
will add DCOM95 to your Windows 95 installation.

Below is a summary of what you need:

Using this Software	Need MDAC 2.5?	Need DCOM?
*******************	**************	**********
Windows 2000		No		No
Windows ME		No		No
Internet Explorer 5	Yes		No
or 5.5					
MS Office 2000		Yes		No
Windows NT		Yes		No
Windows 95		Yes		Yes DCOM95
Window  98		Yes		Yes DCOM98

These components are available from:
MDAC   - http://www.pcpmsoftware.co.uk/download/mdac_typ.exe
DCOM95 - http://www.pcpmsoftware.co.uk/download/DCOM95.exe
DCOM98 - http://www.pcpmsoftware.co.uk/download/DCOM98.exe
 
They are also available from:
http://www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm

MDAC 2.6 Users
Microsoft have not included the Jet Database engine within MDAC 2.6.
If you have MDAC 2.6 installed but do not have Jet 4.0 you will need to get
this from the Microsoft download site mentioned above.

4. Installation Instructions
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The zip file that contained this readme.txt file also contained a file called 
setupex.exe.  This file should be in the folder to which you unpacked the zip file.
That is the same folder as this readme.txt file.

To install TrekTrak simply locate the setupex.exe file using Windows Explorer and double-click
 it.  This will start the installation process.  Follow the on-screen instructions to
install TrekTrak.

5. Manifest of files within trekt.zip
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readme.txt	This file.
history.txt	History of changes made to each version of TrekTrak.
setupex.exe	The installation program for TrekTrak.
licence.txt	The TrekTrak licence agreement.
privacy.txt	The TrekTrak privacy statement.
file_id.diz	Quick product identifier file.
pad_file.htm	Program Application Description html file.
pad_file.xml	Program Application Description xml file.

6. How to Contact PCPM Software
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Web:	http://www.pcpmsoftware.com
or:	http://www.trektrak.net
EMail:	support@pcpmsoftware.co.uk

7. How to upgrade to TrekTrakPro
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TrekTrakPro includes additional features that make it even more powerful than TrekTrak.
For example it enables you to share a database with multiple users, import and export
sub selections of URLs for transfer between databases and between friends and colleagues, 
create new databases, Drag Drop and Paste multiple URLs from text and pull in pages of links at once.

Additionally TrekTrakPro does not display advertising banners.

TrekTrakPro is available for download at a small cost at http://www.trektrak.net
