ANSI Standard PL/B Language and Visual PL/B

Distribution Files

December 14, 1998

For a SINGLE USER installation.
When we put a new PL/B Windows system at client sites we put everything in a SINGLE DIRECTORY:

• DOS programs
• PL/B Windows programs
• Data and ISI files
• Required PLBWIN runtime
  • ANSI.DEF
  • PLBWIN.EXE
  • PLBWODBC.DLL
  • PLBWIN32.DLL
  • PLBWSEC.DLL
  • PLBWXF32.DLL
  • SUNFHSYS.DLL
  • PLBWIN.INI             <---- Be sure to edit paths ! ! ! ! (see below)
  • DBSERIAL
  • SUNINDEX.EXE             <---- If the client is licensed

We keep a file named PLBWTRAN.ZIP in the SUNBELT\CODE directory on the primary development machine that contains these files.

That file can be zipped using a control file PLBWTRAN.LIS using the command (run on the W95 machine):
          PKZIP PLBWTRAN @PLBWTRAN.TXT

There's a copy of that control file on both the download directory and on the main development machine.
NOTE: We distribute two special versions of the PLBWIN.INI file with the runtime download. One is .INK and one is .INS. We use those names so that we don't overwrite a client specific INI file with a software update.

We ran this on Windows 3.11 systems using the WIN32S system. All programs seemed to work fine although some of the large data lists would not work. Programs run on W3.11 must be written with that restriction in mind. There are examples in the STP system.
We no longer support Windows 3.x as of Summer 2000.

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PROGRAM EXECUTION

PROGRAM EXECUTION:       Single user. Client Site.

• For single user systems at client sites
• With everything in the same folder
• Set up a normal W/9x shortcut
• Use the command PLBWIN {program}
• Specify the starting directory
• The one directory contains everything

PROGRAM EXECUTION:       MMCC Corporate site.

• PLBWIN components are in the standard Sunbelt location:
        C:\SUNBELT\PLBWIN84\CODE
        This is in the default PATH so Windows and everyone else can find the programs.
  
  
• SOURCE and PLC's are in system specific directories.
        i.e. \ADDRLIST; \HOMES; \PD; etc.
  
  
• DATA FILES are in CLIENT SPECIFIC directories.
        \ADDRLSIT\STP;
        \ADDRLSIT\TOUGHMAN;
        \ADDRLSIT\ROTARY;
  
  
• Each CLIENT SPECIFIC directory contains a
  user specific PLBWIN-xxxx.INI file which includes
  PLB_PATH={user system} pointing to the SOURCE and PLC directory;
        \ADDRLSIT\STP\PLBWIN-STP.INI
              PLB_PATH=\ADDRLIST
        \ADDRLSIT\TOUGHMAN\PLBWIN-TMAN.INI
              PLB_PATH=\ADDRLIST
        \ADDRLSIT\ROTARY\PLBWIN-ROT.INI
              PLB_PATH=\ADDRLIST
  
  
• Set up a special W/9x shortcut
        Use the command
              PLBWIN {-i PLBWIN-xxxx.INI} {program}
        Specify the starting directory as the DATA DIRECTORY.

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NOTES ON PLBWIN.INI

The PLBWIN.INI contents should contain at least these lines:

• [environment]
• PLB_TERM=ansi {identify screen def file to use}
• PLB_SYSTEM= {path to PL/B runtime}
• PLB_PATH= {path to programs and data}
• PLBWIN_ICON={path} {icon file for task bar}

NOTE: You can execute PLBWIN and use a private INI file by making your start line (or shortcut):
        PLBWIN -i {ini file path}   {program name}

Full list of options can be found in the PL/B WINDOWS RUNTIME on-line help file.

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