Do I need to hand install at All?

There are some special setup programs or information available for these operating systems:

• OS/2
• Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

If your operating system is listed above please read the appropriate section before proceeding. If it is not listed, any information you can provide will help write a new section for your operating system for others.

Looks like I need to hand install!

This section describes how to install PPWIZARD so it can be used from a command line or batch file. Windows and OS/2 setup programs do extra work to set up PPWIZARD so that they can be used via their graphical shells (Windows Explorer and OS/2 WPS); this sort of setup would be perfectly possible in any operating system and while only a minor tweek to what is done for OS/2 or Windows is not described here (maybe in the future - any help appreciated...).

Note: to simplify installation and testing I suggest that Regina and PPWIZARD be installed into the same directory.

The information shown here can be applied to any operating system supported by PPWIZARD.

There is one and only one PPWIZARD runtime (distributed as "PPWIZARD.REX"), this runs on all operating systems. PPWIZARD detects the operating environment (REXX interpreter and operating system) and executes accordingly.

REXX Interpreter

PPWIZARD requires a REXX interpreter, only the following are supported:

• Native OS/2 interpreters
  Of course no installation required for these!

• Regina
  This is a free product which you will need to obtain. Download this from http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/. Note that if you already use a different REXX interpreter then Regina should be able to run alongside it, as it has few requirements.

  For ease of use Regina should be installed in a directory that is in your "PATH" as this means that you will not have to enter the full name of the program but can just enter "regina".

  The directory containing PPWIZARD should also be in the PATH as well as the regina environment variable REGINA_MACROS.

Note that if Regina can't find PPWIZARD, it comes up with a message similar to:

   Error 3 running "ppwizard.rex": Failure during initialization
   Error 3.1: Failure during initialization: Program is unreadable

If you see this message, PPWIZARD is not corrupt, it simply can't be located. Double check that the directory containing PPWIZARD is mentioned in Regina's REGINA_MACROS environment variable.

PPWIZARD

• The directory containing PPWIZARD should be specified in the PATH.

• Under OS/2, PPWIZARD has the extension ".CMD" and not the ".REX" that is used in all other operating systems.

TESTING PPWIZARD

PPWIZARD should display an error message (no files specified) if one of the following commands is used:

• PPWIZARD
  This form should work in OS/2 as well as Windows NT, 2000 and XP. This is because these operating systems either know about how to execute REXX code or can be told.

  Please tell me if you know how to configure other operating system to work this way.

• REGINA PPWIZARD
  This form will be required in Windows 95/98/ME and DOS. Unix, BEOS, etc. probably also require this form.

If neither of the above two commands work, then the chances are you have made a mistake in configuration or you haven't rebooted since your last change. If it still fails after a reboot, change to the directory where you installed Regina and PPWIZARD and try again. If you can't work it out then contact me (dbareis@SpamBeGone.gmail.com) for help.

If one of the above works then please see the PPWIZARD command line section of the documentation for more information on how to run it.

Note that the follwoing command would probably always work (no matter whether configured or not):

• Fullpath\REGINA Fullpath\PPWIZARD
  If you specify the full path to both regina and PPWIZARD then ther will probably be no problem.

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PPWIZARD Manual

Sunday November 05 2017 at 10:00am