Upgrade Overview

If you currently operate a RemoteAccess bulletin board system, Refer to the chapter “RemoteAccess to ProBoard Conversion” for specific instructions on how to convert your existing system.

* Prudence and courtesy dictate that we ask you to back up your system before installing and/or upgrading ProBoard. *

* Although every effort has been made to provide you with software that will install/upgrade easily, due to the many different number of possible hardware and software combinations, it's virtually impossible to guarantee that a problem won't occur. It's your system, do what you like, but remember we did ask you to backup first. *

Now, on to the good stuff!!

Unpack the distribution archive in a temporary directory or to a diskette and run INSTALL.EXE. The installation utility will detect if ProBoard is already installed and will ask you if you want to update to the new version. That's all there is to it. The update process will run automatically.

* The following section is intended for people who don't want to use the automatic installation program for upgrading to ProBoard v2.30. *

1) Remove the “read-only” attribute of your existing PROBOARD.EXE by issuing the following DOS command:

ATTRIB -R PROBOARD.EXE

If your existing PROBOARD.EXE file was not marked “read-only” to start with, remember that this is necessary for ProBoard to run correctly since it's an “overlayed” .EXE file.

You should issue the above command even if you're not sure about the present attribute of your current PROBOARD.EXE file.

Important: If you do not remove the “read-only” attribute from your PROBOARD.EXE file, then you will not be able to copy the new PROBOARD.EXE file to the directory you are running ProBoard from, and the upgrade will fail. Read the above, and be sure you understand it before you proceed.

2) Copy all executables (*.EXE) from PB_230.ZIP over your old executables

3) Set the read-only attribute of PROBOARD.EXE

ATTRIB +R PROBOARD.EXE

4) Copy all *.PEX files from PB_230.ZIP in your PEX directory (overwriting the existing PEXes that came with the previous version)

5) Copy all *.CPP, *.C, *.H, *.HPP, *.OBJ and *.LIB files from PB_230.ZIP in your SDK directory

6) Copy all *.230, *.DOC and *.TXT files from PB_xx.ZIP in your documentation directory (or your system directory)

7) Copy all *.PBL files from PB_230.ZIP in your system directory (overwriting the existing language files that came with

the previous version)

8) Copy DEFLANG.PB to your ProBoard system directory.

9) Run “CONVERT PB” in your ProBoard system directory.