                                 
                                  OPTION FILE GENERATOR & CIMPRO
					(version 6.0 Prod)
                                               2005

INTRODUCTION:  The Option File Generator (OFG) and CimPro are written in Sun Microsystems's 
Java.  This allows the code be used on many different platforms such as Windows, Unix, Mac, etc.  
To allow this to be possible, Java use's something called a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that 
is written specifically for each platform.  This allows a single set of code to be used on 
many different types of platforms.  NOTE:  with version 6.0, Austin N.C. is supplying a G-Post
Debugger application that can be launched from CimPro (Windows PCs only).

STRUCTURE:   The JVM (also known as the JRE or RTE), the compiled code for the OFG and CimPro, and 
various libraries used to support the OFG and CimPro are located in a directory called "ncjlibs" 
which is a sub-directory of the Camsys directory.  The executables used to launch the OFG and CimPro 
are located in the Camsys directory.  The ncjlibs directory is fairly large, but most of this 
consists of the JVM.  

REQUIREMENTS:  The JVM used for this release of the OFG and CimPro is version 1.4.2.  This 
version of the JVM requires the following:

OPERATING SYSTEM:  Windows NT 4.0 (SP5 or higher), Windows 2000 (SP3+), or Windows XP Professional (SP1).  
It has been tested (limited) on Windows XP Home Edition.

KNOWN ISSUES:  

1) for CIMPRO when running on Windows XP with SP2, run it in the Default (Java) look-and-feel.
Running in the Windows L&F is much slower.  SP1 does not seem to cause this.

NOTE:  AUSTIN N.C. IS NOT SUPPORING WINDOWS 95, 98, or Me.  But, if you do run CimPro or the Option File 
Generator on these operating systems (at least 95 and 98) and it does not run, you may need to 
increase the Shell Environment size for the platform.  The default for this is generally 256k. 
You can correct this by updating the "Autoexec.bat" or "Config.sys" files by placing the following 
line in the file:

SET SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:XXXX  (where XXXX can range from 256 to 4096)  Start with
256 and go up from there.

NOTE:  Version 6.0 of the User Interface (UI) portion of Cimpro and the Option File Generator are being
supplied for Windows only.  Version 5.9 of the UI will the last official update for UNIX; though
the executables (non UI code) will continue to be updated.  An occasional bug fix to 5.9 UI may
be required. 
