MONTANA DEPARTMENT HSH, WILDLIFE, AND PARKS 

 MRIS Reporting Program 



APPENDIX A 

 MRIS Reporting Program Installation 



The purpose of the MRIS Reporting Program installation program is to install the MRIS 

 Reporting Program software and data files on your computer, to create the directory for the 

 programs and data files, and to provide the option to modify the CONFIG.SYS and 

 AUTOEXEC.BAT files. 



Before installing the MRIS Reporting Program, the computer must be configured to have at 

 least 480 Kbytes of available conventional memory and 2 MBytes of expanded memory (EMS). 

 Expanded memory is extended memory (XMS) that has been converted by a memory manager. 

 Typical memory managers are EMM386.EXE which comes with some versions of MS-DOS and 

 QEMM386.EXE from QuarterDeck. If you are not familiar with memory management contact your 

 system administrator. 



Depending on the number of hydrologic units you have been sent (region, subset of region, 

 statewide), there will be either one or two diskettes. The installation program and its related files 

 are either contained on the diskette labeled INSTALL in the event you have been sent two diskettes. 

 The MRIS Reporting Program programs and data files are stored on the other diskette(s). 



Copying the files 



The simplest method for installing MRIS Reporting Program is to create a temporary directory, 

 e.g. TEMP, on your hard disk and copy all of the diskettes to that directory. This directory will 

 serve as the source directory for the installation program. If you do not have sufficient hard disk 

 space for both the INSTALL and data files, you can just copy the INSTALL files to the hard disk. 

 Then, during the installation, you can select the floppy drive to load the files from the additional 

 diskette(s). 



After copying the files on the diskettes, change to the directory you've created, TEMP, and 

 type INSTALL. INSTALL begins by checking the hard disk for the location of several files 

 including AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. After locating the files, INSTALL will present 

 you with a series of questions and information prior to creating the MRIS Reporting Program 

 programs and data files on your computer. 



Entering the source and target directories 



INSTALL will ask you to identify the source directory, e.g. the TEMP directory. When you 

 start INSTALL in the TEMP directory, it automatically selects the TEMP as the source directory. 

 If this is not acceptable, you can specify the correct source directory. Next INSTALL determines 



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