FORTRAN PowerStation 32 README.TXT: Installation

 Last reviewed: June 27, 1997
Article ID: Q133102
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The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation 32 for Windows NT, version 1.0

SUMMARY

The following information is from the Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation 32 README.TXT file located in the \FPSNT\README directory.

This file has four parts: 

     Part     Contents
     ----     --------
      1       Installation
      2       Debugging
      3       Building and Running Programs
      4       Miscellaneous

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=======================< Part 1: Installation >========================

Installation and Windows NT User Accounts

Each user account in Windows NT has a key stored in the Registry. This key contains the user profile and privilege level set by the system administrator. If your user account group membership (privileges) is changed after installation, the following two messages may appear when starting FORTRAN Visual Workbench. After these messages appear, FORTRAN Visual Workbench starts running. However, when you exit you will receive the second message again. 

 "The options Registry Key 'FORTRAN PowerStation' is missing. A new
  Registry Key will be created using the default settings."

 "Unable to write to the NT Registry. Option settings will not be
  saved."
The FORTRAN Visual Workbench profile information, contained in the Microsoft FORTRAN Visual Workbench key in the Windows NT registry, contains both program-specific information such as environment variables and user-specific information such as Editor options. Each user on a Windows NT computer has a unique key for the development environment, and that key cannot be shared on the same machine.

Since the key cannot be shared, FORTRAN Visual Workbench must be installed at the user level. If your user account belongs to more than one group (Administrators, Backup Operators, Power Users, Users, Guests, Replicators), and you install FORTRAN Visual Workbench by running Setup as a member of Administrators, then you only have access to FORTRAN Visual Workbench via your FORTRAN Visual Workbench key when you are logged in the Admin group. If you intend to work with FORTRAN Visual Workbench as a Power User, you must install FORTRAN Visual Workbench as a Power User, and then use FORTRAN PowerStation as a Power User. FORTRAN Visual Workbench functionality cannot be spanned across user groups.

To correct this situation, a user with Administrator privileges on your machine can perform the following steps to rebuild the Registry Key for your user account:

  1. Log in as Administrator and give the User of FORTRAN PowerStation administrative privileges to delete the FORTRAN PowerStation entry, with RegEdit32 located in \winnt\system32 directory. The FORTRAN PowerStation entry is under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, FORTRAN PowerStation. Be sure not to delete any entries other than FORTRAN PowerStation.

  2. Remove the administrative privileges for the FORTRAN PowerStation User.

  3. Log in as the User and start FORTRAN PowerStation again. This time you will only receive the first message from above and a new registry entry will be created.

Installation over a Network

You can set up FORTRAN PowerStation for installation across a network:

1) Copy all of the disks to a directory tree on the network with the 

   directory names: ...\disk1, ...\disk2, and so on.
2) From the root of this directory tree, type: COPY DISK1\SETUP.*

3) You can now run Setup from the directory tree on the network.

Numerical Recipes and AUTOEXEC.BAT

The Numerical Recipes Setup program uses the directory ...\F32\BIN as the default location for installing the NR files. (This is the directory used for NR in FORTRAN PowerStation 32 for MS-DOS.) If you want to install the NR files with the rest of FORTRAN PowerStation 32 for Windows NT, change the destination directory to ...\FPSNT\BIN.

At the end of the installation process, the NR Setup program asks if you want it to modify the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. (This is because it is the same program that is used to install NR under MS-DOS.) Unless you intend to run your programs in the MS-DOS environment, you should select the option of not updating the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

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Last reviewed: June 27, 1997
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