As long as you already have a registered Version 8.3 Structural Material Manager system installed, you may download the latest maintenance system from the E.J.E. Industries, Inc. Web site. There is no charge to registered Version 8.3 customers for this release.
Before beginning, let's get an overview of the procedures that will be followed. You'll be using your Internet browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) to download a new Structural Material Manager system from our Web site. The new system is stored in the form of a program named Patch.Exe. You'll simply use your browser to save this Patch.Exe program to some location on your hard drive. Later, you'll run Patch.Exe, and it will allow you to install Structural Material Manager.
It is important to note that the PC on which you run Structural Material Manager and that on which you access the Internet need not be the same. You can download Patch.Exe on a PC that has Internet access, copy it to some sort of high-capacity media (perhaps “burn” it to a CD), and later bring that media to the PC on which you want to install Structural Material Manager.
Now that the overview has hopefully familiarized you with the basic strategy, follow these steps:
1) Back up any Structural Material Manager jobs that you can't afford to lose. Upgrading your system using the following steps carries almost no risk to your job data, but "better safe than sorry" applies as usual!
2) You can download the Patch.Exe file either from our FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server or our HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) server. If your particular system has trouble obtaining the file from one server, simply try the other. Click on the link of your choice below:
3) Clicking one of the above links should open the "Save As" dialog for the Patch.Exe file.
It is possible that rather than opening the Save As dialog, your browser instead asked whether you want to run Patch or save it to disk. If this sort of question appears, choose to save the file to disk. Upon choosing this option, the desired Save As dialog should appear.
4) We'll assume that you now have the Save As dialog open. Before actually saving the file, pay careful attention to the following:
After noting the above items, and changing them if desired, click or press whatever button (usually "Save") your browser requires to begin saving the file.
5) Once the download is finished, close the Save As dialog (if it did not close automatically), and exit the browser. The Internet phase of the process is now done.
6) Most users probably downloaded Patch.Exe to the hard drive of the same machine on which they will install Structural Material Manager; this is the simplest case, and you may simply proceed to the next step if this indeed describes your situation. If necessary, however, computer-literate users can copy Patch.Exe from the hard drive to a CD or other high-capacity media which can later be brought to another PC. No specific directions will be presented here on how to do this since the required procedures vary greatly among different hardware and software combinations. Copy Patch.Exe to such media at this time if necessary (perhaps because you don’t have Internet access at the machine on which Structural Material Manager is to be installed).
7) If you saved the file to the Windows Desktop, simply find the Patch.Exe icon there, and double-click it. If you saved Patch.Exe to some other location, you'll of course have to first browse to that location before double-clicking the Patch.Exe item.
8) The Structural Material Manager setup utility will automatically appear when Patch.Exe is run; follow the prompts to install as usual.
If an error message appears upon executing Patch.Exe, then the downloaded file is probably corrupt. If you get an error message, simply download the file again. Note that it makes sense to switch to a different E.J.E. Industries server if you are experiencing problems. For instance, if a download from our FTP server did not work, try clicking on the link to the HTTP server the next time.
Note that the setup program contained in Patch.Exe cannot be used for a full installation. It can only be used to update an existing system of the same major version (perhaps to update 8.3b to 8.3m).
Some users may need to patch multiple, stand-alone (non-networked) PC's. The Internet-based steps need followed just once, so once you have downloaded Patch.Exe at one PC, it can simply be run at each station that needs updated!
If your system has multiple network workstations accessing a single Structural Material Manager installation on a server's hard drive, then Patch.Exe does not need to be run at every workstation. The best way to patch all the systems at once is usually to run Patch.Exe at just one of the workstations that accesses Structural Material Manager and to choose the shared (mapped) hard drive letter in the Setup program’s drive-selection box. This works well because you are guaranteed that the drive mapping to the server is correct from the workstation's perspective since that station is known to already run Structural Material Manager properly. Once you've loaded onto the server's hard drive from one of the workstations, all other workstations will automatically have access to the updated system.
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