GPL Race Engineer Installation

Installation Option 1:  Full
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Choose this option if you are not running Windows XP and don't already have either GRE or Visual Basic 6.0. This option will allow you to do everything as simply as possible.

Note: Windows XP comes with Visual Basic Runtime, so if you have XP you should choose Option 2: Piecemeal, and start with step 2, or do the Component Update.

1.  Download GRE_Full_vXXX.zip (4.3 Mb) and extract the contents into a temporary folder. 

2.  Run setup.exe.   If you are warned that a given file is in use and can't be installed, don't worry about it.  Just skip it and proceed with completing the installation.

3. When you open GRE Help, if you get a simple window without the Hide/Show, Back, Print, and Options buttons, it probably means you have an obsolete version of the Windows help module. You can get the current version (700K) at:

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/hhupd.exe


Installation Option 2:  Piecemeal
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Choose this option if you are running Windows XP, or if you already have an earlier version of GRE, or you already have Visual Basic 6 installed, or you prefer downloading smaller files.

Note: Windows XP comes with Visual Basic Runtime, so if you have XP you should start with step 2, or do the Component Update, below.

1. If you don't already have Visual Basic 6.0 installed, download the free Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime, VBRun60sp3.exe (1.0 Mb), from:

	http://download.microsoft.com/download/vba6/utility/1/win98/EN-US/VBRun60sp3.exe

Download the exe to a temporary folder.  Run it to install.

Details about this file are in this document:

	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q235/4/20.asp 

2. Download GREvXXX.zip (600 Kb) and extract the contents into a new folder, such as c:\Program Files\GRE. These files are required for GRE and must be in the same folder:

	GRE.exe
	readme.txt

3. Download GREOCX.zip (700 Kb) and extract the contents to c:\Windows\system.  The following files should be included:

	MSCOMCTL.OCX
	COMDLG32.OCX
	RICHTX32.OCX

If there is an older version of this file in Windows\system, you may want to rename the older version first before moving in the newer version included in the GRE zip.

4. When you open GRE Help, if you get a simple window without the Hide/Show, Back, Print, and Options buttons, it probably means you have an obsolete version of the Windows help module. You can get the current version (700K) at:

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/hhupd.exe


Component Update
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Choose this option if you have already installed an earlier version of GRE, and you have Visual Basic 6 or Windows XP, and you have already installed the files from GREOCX.zip.

If you don't already have Visual Basic 6.0 installed, or if you haven't already installed the files from GREOCX.zip, go to Installation Option 1 or Installation Option 2, above.

1. Download GRE_exe_vXXX.zip (600 Kb) and extract the contents into your GRE folder, typically c:\Program Files\GRE.

2. Download GRE_Help_vXXX.zip (1 Mb) and extract the contents into your GRE folder, typically c:\Program Files\GRE.

These files are required for GRE and must be in the same folder:

	GRE.exe
	GREHelp.chm
	About GRE and GRE Help

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Programming:  Nate Hine

Documentation:  Alison Hine

Setup and engineering advice:  Ron Ayton, Michael Carver, Eric Cote, Dave Kaemmer, Ricardo Nunnini, Steve Smith, Wolfgang Woeger

Setup and replay file format decoding:  P. A. Flack, Denis Garese, Martin Granberg

Beta testers:  Michael Carver, Riccardo Nunnini, Ron Ayton, Dave Noonan, Ed Solheim, Greger Huttu, Bart Westra, Joachim Trensz, ...

GRE and GRE Help may be downloaded from http://eaglewoman.maximumspeed.com/gpl.

GRE and GRE Help are Copyright © 2000 by Nate Hine and Alison Hine. All rights are reserved.

Redistribution:
GRE and GRE Help may not be distributed for profit without the express written permission of the authors. GRE and GRE Help are freeware. You may freely redistribute GRE and GRE Help, but only in their entirety, and only so long as no money is charged for either the software or the media. GRE and GRE Help may not be distributed on media (such as a CD-ROM or a diskette) for which money is charged or on media distributed with another publication (such as a magazine) for which money is charged 
unless written permission is obtained from the authors. 

Disclaimers:
This software is provided ""as is"" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use it at your own risk. Always remember to have a backup copy of your simulation and any associated files. 
GRE and GRE Help are not Sierra or Papyrus products. The authors have no official association with Sierra or Papyrus beyond their role as volunteer beta testers.

Our deepest and most heartfelt thanks to Dave Kaemmer, Randy Cassidy, Rich Yasi, Matt Sentell, Mike Lescault, Grant Reeve, Bill Betts, Scott Stutsman, Scott Sanford, Shawn Wise, Eric Busch and all of the dedicated crew at Papyrus who created the brilliant simulator which motivated the development of GRE and GRE Help - and which has given so many of us so many hours of stimulation, excitement, and learning. 

History
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v 1.0.0
fixed bugs when running on XP
allowed finer adjustment of differential ramp angles
expanded upper end of ranges for springs and shocks

v 0.9.2
made path to GPL more forgiving
fixed bugs importing and exporting text setups

v 0.9.1
fixed OLE bug

v 0.9.0
debugged dragging files onto icon

