**************************************************************************** Auxiliary files for COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1988, on CD-ROM **************************************************************************** The file CCDBAUX.EXE contains auxiliary files (in compressed form) to allow the EXTRACT 1.1 software to work with the County and City Data Book, 1988, CD-ROM issued by the Census Bureau: **************************************************************************** ** Installing these files for use with EXTRACT ** 1. To install auxiliary files for CCDB, create a new directory on your hard disk and make this the current directory: MD \CCDBAUX CD \CCDBAUX 2. Uncompress the auxiliary files onto your hard disk: a:CCDBAUX CCDBAUX.EXE is a "self-extracting" archive containing catalog, data dictionary and other auxiliary files which EXTRACT needs in order to select and display data from the CCDB CD-ROM. If you are also installing CBP auxiliary files, do not place them in the same subdirectory on your hard disk as these CCDB files. **************************************************************************** ** Starting EXTRACT to work with CCDB files ** 1. Make the directory with EXTRACT.EXE in it the current directory: CD \EXTRACT 2. Start the program. EXTRACT 3. You will be asked to specify some drives and directories. If your configuration includes a CD-ROM reader, you must specify a CD-ROM drive letter. This is the letter you assigned when you first installed the reader; often, the reader is assigned the letter "L". You also will be asked to specify a "work directory." This is any directory on your hard disk (e.g., \WORK), which EXTRACT uses to store temporary files; be sure to create the directory before using it in EXTRACT! When the system asks for the location of auxiliary files, specify the subdirectory where you installed the auxiliary files for the CD-ROM you are using, e.g., C:\CCDBAUX. **************************************************************************** ** For More Information ** See the documentation, EXTRACT.DOC, which is created by the program EXTRCT11, available separately. If you frequently use more than one CD-ROM with the EXTRACT program, see the discussion of command-line parameters toward the end of EXTRACT.DOC. ****************************************************************************