If you are a new user of PawCom2 skip the next section and go directly to the
PawCom2 Installation Instructions.

Upgrading to PawCom2
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PawCom2 will install, by default, in a separate directory from PawCom.
After installation of PawCom2 you can continue to use your current version of
PawCom.

PawCom2 is not program compatible with PawCom.  However we have provided
a compatibility library for existing applications that use PawCom, so all you
need to do is change the reference in your application from "Multiware PAW COM
Library 2.12.x" to "PawCom Wrapper for PawCom2".

For applications you have developed in Access you will want to look at the
new Access application that comes with PawCom2.  Although your existing Access
application will continue to work if it references the wrapper, the new
PawCom2 application calls PawCom2 directly and contains much better examples
of inserting data into Peachtree.

The new PawCom2 application handles the journal data a bit differently. Instead of defining separate tables for each journal and reading the data separately into those tables, now only the JrnlHdr and JrnlRow tables are defined and queries with the same name as the old specific journal tables are defined. Since tables and queries are both handled identically as recordsets, current applications should not be affected by this change.  However, this new scheme is more efficient and means less data needs to be stored in the tables.

We have also included the complete sources for the wrapper library so you can see exactly how an existing PawCom application can be modified to call PawCom2 directly.


PawCom2 Installation Instructions
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Run the downloaded EXE to install PawCom2 on your system.  Follow the directions.

When PawCom2 is started for the first time you will need to attach the
data tables and browse to the location of your company data.


Location of Files
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PawCom2 installation puts files in two locations to be more compatible with
Windows 7.  In the "Program Files/Multiware/PawCom2"  for Windows XP or in the
"Program Files (X86)/Multiware/PawCom2" folder for Windows 7 you will find the
PawCom2 and wrapper library DLL files, the manual, a zip file containing the
sources for the wrapper library, and a simple .NET example.

The Access applications will be found in the folder at
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Application Data\Multiware\PawCom2