WatchStocks - Installation
WatchStocks installation preconditions
You must have JAVA 1.3 (or newer)
installed on Your machine and Your operating system must support long file
names (Recommended operating systems: eComStation, Linux, etc. -- see: next page).
Your systems screen resolution should be 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600 (higher or lower resolutions are not tested). Higher resolutions may work, tell me if You know...
Because there are no restrictions for the number of stocks that can be queried (registered program), enshure that You have at least 10MByte free space on the drive where You install the WatchStocks.
Where to install
WatchStocks can be installed to a directory of Your own choice. It is always a good idea to install programs to a drive different from Your boot drive. This way Your operating system and all Your program files can be changed (or removed or reinstalled) without effecting each other...
Attention:
- JAVA is case sensitive. So file names
Stocks.jar and
Stocks.JAR are different!
- The following instructions assume You are installing on Your drive
C:
to a directory called Stocks. You might change this to Your own
needs...
Create a directory
Before installing (not for an update) You must create a directory for
WatchStocks.
Here are the instructions for Windows users (users of other operating systems
will surely know how to do this):
- Open a command window
- Type
mkdir Stocks and press [Enter]
Download the file Stocks.jar
Go to the Download-Page and download the file Stocks.jar to the
directory just created (i.e.: C:\Stocks). Do not rename the file
Stocks.jar!
Start WatchStocks for the first time
Here are the instructions for Windows users (users of other operating systems
will surely know how to do this):
(Still assuming You are installing to C:\Stocks)
- Open a command window
- Change to the Stocks directory: Type
cd Stocks and press [Enter]
- Start WatchStocks: Type
java -jar Stocks.jar and press [Enter]
Subsequent starts of WatchStocks
You can start WatchStocks as descibed in 'Start WatchStocks for the
first time'.
--Or You can use the Stocks.bat file contained in Your Stocks
directory.
You might create a program object for this *.bat file on your
desktop...
- Hint: OS/2; eCS users simply double-click on the
InstallOS2.CMD file.
Installation of WatchStocks failed?
Here are the instructions for Windows users (users of other operating systems
will surely know how to do this):
(Still assuming You are installing to C:\Stocks)
Check if the file name is (case-sensitive) Stocks.jar.
Check even the extension .jar!
If the name does not match do the following
- Open a command window
- Change to the Stocks directory: Type
cd Stocks and press [Enter]
- Rename Stocks: Type
ren Stocks.jar wrong.jar and
press [Enter]
- Rename wrong: Type
ren wrong.jar Stocks.jar and
press [Enter]
- Try starting
WatchStocks again
