GeoNav Copyright(c)1999 James Allen Bressem.

         * * * * Welcome to GeoNav version 2.81 * * * *

  GeoNav is a 32bit Windows95/98/NT program created in VB6.0.

    Author's email: 1854316@SprintMail.Com
  GeoNav home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Breakers/1912/

 Table of contents

         1.  What GeoNav Does
         2.  System Requirements
         3.  Legal, notice
         4.  Setting GeoNav up
         5.  Some of GeoNav's features
         6.  Getting Started with GeoNav after installation
         7.  The files that GeoNav installs.
         8.  Enhancements since the previous release.
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         1. What GeoNav Does:
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                 GeoNav is a tool and a toy!
               Or is it a toy with some tools?

It does some serious file processing and it does some playfull
web page browsing. If used together what you have is a powerfull
tool for your entertainment. Several of GeoNav's features are 
not found anywhere else in the public shareware domain. I don't
know why? Perhaps it is a bit eccentric to consider personal
web sites in such a serious manner, but that is what I have done.
People like watching other people, and I'm no exception! My
year long labors on this little project will make many aspects
of browsing people's web pages Very easy for you!

(<-1->):
        Browses the personal web sites hosted on many different
        personal web site hosting servers!

        Mainly Geocities.com, and Geocities.co.jp

                  What is GeoCities.Com?
        GeoCities.Com is an internet web server which offers
        free web site hosting to the public. More than
        1,000,000 personal web sites exist on GeoCities.Com.
        The web sites on GeoCities.Com are arranged in logical
        groups as corresponds to the nature of the web site's
        content. GeoNav gives you easy access to viewing all
        of those web sites, catagorically, randomly, manually,
        automatically.

        But it will also browse the personal web sites hosted on:

        Surf.to, Sprintmail.com, Aol.com, Xoom.com, Netcom.com,
        Tripod.com, Angelfire.com, terravista.pt, brasil.terravista.pt,
        and literally any other you can find.

(<-2->):
        Ftp files to your site at Geocities.com, Xoom.com, or
        Tripod.com. Select files once, from then on just click send to
        send the files again every time you up date them.

(<-3->):
        Copy, Browse, Search, View, Chng Case, and more of Internet
        Explorer's cache files through out all cache directories
        at once.

(<-4->):
        Create web page templates. Adds META tags, forms, text boxes,
        check boxes, etc. and automatically writes VBScript SUB
        procedures for evey event of every control item, you just fill
        in the blanks to make web page controls come alive.


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         2. System Requirements:
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IE4:
     GeoNav requires that Microsoft Internet Explorer
     Ver 4 or later be installed on your Computer.

A dial up internet connection:
     GeoNav is an internet based application.
     
Windows 95/98/NT.

4 to 6 MB of free disk space.

* * * * *    This Simtel version of GeoNav requires     * * * * * 
* * * * *    the VB6 runtime files. They are not        * * * * * 
* * * * *    included.                                  * * * * *

They can be downloaded from:

http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/VBRUN60.EXE

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         3. Legal, notice:
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     GeoNav is Shareware. You may distribute GeoNav
     in this context, provided it is not being offered
     for sale.
     
     GeoNav can be registered for five dollars.
     Upon receipt of payment I will email you
     a registration number. Entering your
     registration number will remove the start
     up registration notice and enable all of
     GeoNav's functionality.
     
     Payment should be mailed (with your email address)
     to:
     
     James A. Bressem
     P.O.BOX 1443
     Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33302
     
I can be contacted at: 1854316@Sprintmail.com

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         4.  Setting GeoNav up:
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1st. Make sure you have Microsoft's Internet
     Explorer Version 4 or later installed on
     your computer. It can be downloaded for
     free from: www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm

2nd. Download and install the visual basic version 6
     runtime files and install them as directed by
     the package you recieve them in. they can be 
     downloaded directly from the source (MS) at:
     http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/VBRUN60.EXE
     
3nd. Run the GeoNav Setup.exe file you have here.
     The installation process may need to restart your
     computer to update windows driver files, if so you
     may need to restart setup.exe after your computer 
     restarts. GeoNav installation will not automatically
     continue where it left off. The reason for this is 
     that VB6 programs require drivers that older 
     versions did not require.

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         5. Some of GeoNav's features:
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AutoNav:
       Automatically browses geocities web pages sequentially in a
       given Neighborhood. (According to the timer properties you
       set on the settings menu.)

RandNav:
       Automatically browses RANDOM geocities web pages. I have
       implemeted a method of randomly selecting a neighborhood
       then from that randomly selecting a suburb and finally 
       randomly selecting the actual web site number. Sit back
       and watch as it jumps in and out of every neighborhood,
       suburb, and web site geocities contains automatically.
       Get a diverse set of web page viewing! (According to the
       timer properties you set on the settings menu.)

GeoTree:
       Ever just wanted to view web sites at geocities the way
       geocities intended for you to do? Well, GeoTree is it 
       then. Open GeoTree and select a neighborhood, and or
       suburb from the explorer like treeview and it opens the
       corresponding geocities blocks page from which you can
       select from any of the commented personal web site listings.

GoJapan:
     This is the menu item which enables browsing of the GeoCities
     Japan Server. If Checked all sites opened will be from the
     Japanese Server. If unchecked all sites opened will be from the
     USA server.  Saved links are different for each of the two
     servers and consequently are saved in different files and are
     loaded as the server sites are loaded when you check or uncheck
     this item.

WBTwo:
     This is Web Browser Two, a new feature designedto allow access
     to nearly any server's web sites.

IECache Manager:
     Allows you to copy, search, view, and perform various other
     functions on the files that Internet Explorer stores in the
     cache directories. It performs these function on all cache
     files at once throughout all directories, or single files
     if selected.

Web Page Creator:     
     Writes templates for web pages. This in itself is nothing new
     or extraordinary as many existing programs do this better than
     GeoNav's "Web Page Creator", although, GeoNav takes a turn in
     the template creating process which is unique. It not only
     writes out the form tags etc. for text boxes, option buttons,
     etc. but it also writes out a VBScipting routine and includes
     prewritten SUB TextArea854743OnFocus() proceedures for every
     event a control has. All that you need do is fill in the 
     blank SUB routines to make them do what you want them to do.

Publish:
     This item allows you to ftp files to your site at either
     geocities.com, xoom.com, or tripod.com
     directly from GeoNav.

Close PopUps before they open:
     GeoNav allows you to choose whether GeoCities popup menus will
     or will not be displayed. The default is set to closing pop ups.

Close PopUps after they open:
     This function is provided as an alternative to the disabling
     function (shown above) as it may cause a Java debugging 
     error on some systems.

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         6.  Getting Started with GeoNav after installation:
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     After installing GeoNav you will find the program group by
     clicking the Start menu, selecting programs, and from there
     selecting GeoNav's program group. When GeoNav starts for the
     first time on your computer it will need to create the
     GeoData.mdb database file which it will use to store all of your
     saved links and other changes you make to the program as you use
     it. GeoNav will nolonger ask if you wish to import saved links
     from previous versions, now you must manually select import
     links from the GeoNav file menu. This is for use by those
     who have owned a previous version of GeoNav and would like to
     maintain the links which they saved from the previous version.
     Links can be imported from past GeoData.mdb files, or the older
     geolinks.ini files. 
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                     If you have had GeoNav installed in the past
     and would like to update the Geocities suburbs automatically
     and save your previous links. Then move the old geodata.mdb
     file to another location, start the new GeoNav.exe, it will
     create a new geodata.mdb file containing all the new suburbs.
     Then select import links from the file menu and select the
     old geodata.mdb file and it's links will be added to the new
     database file.
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     Once GeoNav is done creating the database all you need to do to
     start using GeoNav is:

     1.   Connect to the internet.
     2.   Click the open button on the GeoNav program interface.

     You could also click Next, Prev, or AutoNav, RandNav on the file
     menu. Any of these actions will open GeoNav's Web Browser One
     and navigate to the GeoCities web site which is currently being
     displayed.


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         7.  The files that GeoNav installs:
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     GeoNav will install the following files
     into the directories named:

Windows System directory: (C:\Windows\System\)

     COMDLG32.OCX [ActiveX control for common dialogs]
     MSCOMCTL.OCX [ActiveX control for Visual Basic common controls]
     MSINET.OCX   [ActiveX control for internet functions]
     EXPSRV.DLL   [Your guess is as good as mine, probably DB oriented]
     DAO2535.TLB  [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]
     DAO350.DLL   [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]
     MSVBVM60.DLL [ * Not Included in the Simtel.net Download * ]
     MSJET35.DLL  [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]
     VBAJET32.DLL [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]
     MSVCRT40.DLL [Visual C library used by VB controls]
     MSJTER35.DLL [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]
     VB5DB.DLL    [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]
     MSJINT35.DLL [Database driver file, may be being used by Access]

GeoNav's working directory: (C:\Program Files\GeoNav\)
     GeoNav.exe    [GeoNav program executable]
     GeoNav.hlp    [GeoNav Help file]
     Geonav.cnt    [GeoNav Help Contents file]
     GeoNav.txt    [This GeoNav text file]
     wbtsample.txt [GeoNav's Web Browser Two Sample input file, 
                    10000+ known Tripod.com site names.]
     
The following entry will be made in the windows registry
when GeoNav is run for the first time:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\GeoNav (version #)

To manually uninstall GeoNav.
    If you use the control panel add/remove programs
    feature of windows the registry entry will not be
    removed. But I dare say I don't think it is large
    enough to be of any consequence.

 1. Delete all of the above system directory entries.
    (Some, or all of these DLL's, and OCX controls)
    (may be being used by other windows programs.)

    Note: When windows installs driver files it always
          overwrites older files with newer files and
          may have created dependencies on these system
          files if they were newer than the ones which
          previously existed on your system. If they 
          were older than the existing files windows
          would not have installed them.

 2. Delete the GeoNav directory and all of it's files.
    
    Note: If you are going to install a new version of
          GeoNav, then don't delete the database files
          GeoData.mdb, or WbtDB.mdb. These database
          files contain your saved links and any changes
          you have made to Geocities neighborhood structure.
          They will not interfere with the installation of
          a newer version of GeoNav. The new version will
          just load them as if they were it's own. Delete
          all other files in the C:\Program Files\GeoNav\
          directory except the database files and the 
          directory itself.

 3. Delete the GeoNav (version #) registry key named above.


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         8.  Enhancements since the previous release:
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New Item:
          IECache greatly enhanced. Several added
          features including the ability to 
          search for specific files, multiselect, etc.

New Item:
	  Load all cache graphic in the browser with
          the "Brws Pics" feature of IECache.


Note:
     If you notice a problem with the neighborhood
     images on GeoNav's main program interface not
     corresponding to the neighborhood which is 
     currently being viewed read the following.

     That problem arrises do to the fact that 
     GeoNav reads it's neighborhood structure
     out of the GeoData.mdb file created when
     it is first installed.

     If the GeoData.mdb file you are using is a
     recent version, then the neighborhoods may
     have been installed in the GeoData.mdb file
     in a different order than they now exist in
     the GeoNav.exe file. This is due to my 
     having recently added several new suburbs
     to GeoNav. It only effects the pictures.

To solve this problem:

     You will need to let GeoNav create a new
     GeoData.mdb file for you.

     1. Move the two files GeoData.mdb & GeoBckUp.mdb
        to a different directory than GeoNav.exe.
     2. Start GeoNav. (It will create new database files)
     3. Select Import Links from GeoNav's file menu
        and choose your old GeoData.mdb file as the
        input source.
     4. The next time you load GeoNav, all of your
        previously saved links will be in tact and
        the images will load correctly.








     
     
     
     
