PPWIZARD Manual
Installing using PPWW32.EXE in Windows
The "PPWW32.EXE" download for windows is a self extracting version which
means that no separate unarchiving tool is required.
This contains the regina interpreter, ppwizard and documentation in HTML
format.
Nothing prevents you
hand installing
ppwizard on windows however this download makes the installation much
easier and sets up the windows shell so you can work via explorer if
you wish.
Note that the install process does not delete any files in the install
directory if it exists.
If you wish you could delete this first however if you have installed files
from other downloads into this directory do not do this!
To uninstall you can simple remove the install directory.
This will leave a few harmless registry entries in place.
The procedure is as follow:
- Windows 95 users might need
to download
msvcrt.exe
This is a self extracting program which contains the
Microsoft 'C' runtime
(must be installed into the c:\windows\system directory).
Check if it is already in your directory, if not then run
this program to install.
- If you have the EXE simply execute it to unzip the contents and
run the installation.
I recommend that you install into the default location of
"C:\Program Files\PPWIZARD".
- If you have the ZIP you need to unzip it with WinZip
or similar tools.
Then:
- Have a quick look at W32SETUP.TXT as this contains default
options that the following install step will use to decide
how to setup your environment.
- Go to a command prompt and type
"regina.exe setup.rex" to start setup.
- Follow bouncing ball.
- The install directory is added to the PATH and
right click options appear in explorer on "standard"
extensions (see "PPWIZARD.RIT" for details on these
and other associations).
- Reboot before using.
- If you right click on ".IT", ".X" or ".PPW" file
types the ppwizard build options should appear and
work!
Note that in at least Windows NT a build may fail
if the source filename or path contains spaces.
I will try to fix this soon...
Shell Integration (Explorer context menus)
This doco needs more work however if you right click on
".IT", ".IH", ".X", ".XH" or ".PPW" files you will see
edit and build options that ppwizard has installed.
PPWIZARD Manual

Tuesday January 02 2001 at 7:37am