ARC130S
SECTION 3
Installation
ARC130S 060801 Version 1 Issue 1
3.8
Included with ARC130S software version A32 are 2 floppy disks containing software for up and down
loading ARC configurations to a PC.
ARC Configuration Loader Program
The downloading and uploading of ARC
configuration files is made possible by the
Windows program ‘ARC Configuration Loader’.
Data contained in existing ARC configuration files
(held on the PC) may be downloaded to the ARC
or, ARC hardware configurations may be uploaded
to the PC. The configuration files held on the PC
are in a simple ASCII text format. The
configuration files contain all parameters held in
the ARC. This includes all display memories of all
types that the user can program. This allows the
user to configure an ARC once and then, send that
same configuration to multiple units. Also, if the
ARC software is upgraded, the user can store the
ARC configuration before the upgrade and then
download it afterwards so that the configuration
does not have to be re-done.
The ARC Loader program uses the ARC RollCall
network BNC connection. Thus, the user must
have a means of connecting to the ARC RollCall
BNC before the program can be used. Therefore a
RollCall ‘Shoebox’ or a PC equipped with the high
speed RollCall network card must be available.
The ARC loader program is designed to work with
ARC software version A28 and onwards. Note that
software versions A24 and onwards allow the user
to upload the configuration data from the ARC to
the PC but, the download operation can fail. This
will allow users of software versions A24 to A27 to
capture their ARC configurations before upgrading
to A28.
ARC Configuration Loader Installation
The distribution of the ARC Configuration Loader
includes a
setup.exe
program file. This file is kept
on the floppy disk labelled
DISK1
. Running the
ARC Configuration Loader
setup.exe
, either by
mouse click from within Windows Explorer, or from
the Windows Start\Run menu, will commence the
setup sequence. SETUP SHOULD ONLY BE RUN
LOCALLY TO THE TARGET HOST MACHINE,
this may be achieved either by installing locally
from floppy disk or, by copying the installation files
to a local, temporary directory and running setup
from there. The ARC Configuration Loader
requires the RollCall server program RollOLE to be
pre-installed. The ARC Configuration Loader setup
program searches for a registered installation of
RollOLE prior to commencing its own installation
sequence. If the RollOLE executable is found and
validated then ARC Configuration Loader will
install. Conversely, if setup is unable to find or
validate RollOLE.exe it will inform the operator of
the requirement to install, or re-install, RollOLE and
then setup will exit. The installation of RollOLE
should then be carried out before re-attempting to
run the ARC Configuration Loader setup program.
A compatibility issue has arisen in that RollOLE
makes use of Windows Dynamic Link Library (.dll)
files, the current RollOLE is compatible with the
Library files required to run Internet Explorer (IE)
4.0 or later. Earlier versions of RollOLE will not run
correctly on systems that have installed on them
IE4.0, conversely, the current version of RollOLE
cannot run using the .dll files found on a system
using IE3.x or earlier. The setup program will
therefore detect the absence of IE, or if present the
version of IE, and may accordingly give the
operator the option to continue to load the ARC
Configuration Loader, or exit if a configuration not
suited to RollOLE is detected. This is only an issue
for systems running Win95, as Win98 and
WinNT4.0 implicitly use IE4.0 or later.
