Timekeeper Installation

Installing the Timekeeper Software

The initial installation is composed of four zipped files containing the components described in Timekeeper Files and the many files needed by the Microsoft Access Run Time environment. Perform the following steps to download and install Timekeeper:

1. Create a temporary directory, for example TDTEMP.
2. Download the four large Timekeeper files into the temporary directory by clicking on each of the references below. The files are from 0.9 MB to 1.1 MB in size. You will need to obtain a User ID and Password from ekg@cfg.com before proceeding.
   • TKDISK1.EXE — the first file.
   • TKDISK2.EXE — the second file
   • TKDISK3.EXE — the third file
   • TKDISK4.EXE — the fourth file
3. Run each of the four files that you have just downloaded. The directories disk1, disk2, disk3 and disk4 will be created.
4. If you are installing Timekeeper on this machine, run disk1\setup.exe.
5. If you are installing Timekeeper on a different machine, copy the contents of each of the four directories (disk1 through disk4) to a separate diskette. Label them DISK 1 through DISK 4, respectively. Run setup from DISK 1.
6. In either case, you may delete the temporary directory and all of its subdirectories after installation.

Setup will create a Timekeeper directory. The default name is TIMED.

Occasionally it is necessary to run wrkgadm.exe to make a system.mda file. Setup will tell you if this is necessary. Most installations do not need this step. You will find wrkgadm.exe in the TIMED directory.

You can use Create Directory from the File menue of the File Manager to create your temporary directory.

When you click on the file reference in the above description to download the file your browser will probably say that it does not know what to do with the file and will ask if you want to save the file to disk. That is what you want to do and you will specify TDTEMP as the place to put it.

When the instructions say to run a file you have two choices. You can use Run from the File menue of the Program Manager or you can locate the file with the File Manager and double click its name. When you use Run you must provide a full path name like C:\TDTEMP\TKDISK2 or C:\TDTEMP\DISK1\SETUP. The usual way to run setup from a diskette is to use Run from the Program Manager and type A:\SETUP or B:\SETUP.

The four files you download are self extracting zip files. Each contains many files. To inall from either your hard disk or from diskettes requires that you first expand the zip files by running them. Each will expand into a directory containing the files in that zip file. If you need diskettes then copy all the files in a directory to a diskette. Do not copy the directory or the zip file itself to the diskette.

This is version 0.81 of Timekeeper. It will most likely be the last version which will run on Windows 3.1. I will soon switch to Access 97 and later versions of Timekeeper will only run on Windows 95 or Windows NT. I will continue to make this version available to people who only have Windows 3.1.

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