WinTach v1.0

            Applications Oriented Benchmark for Microsoft Windows

                                March 30, 1992



WINTACH OVERVIEW
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WinTach is a Microsoft Window's 3.1 based benchmark program which provides a
tool for estimating how Windows 3.1 applications will run on your system. 
Note that WinTach requires Windows 3.1 in order to run.  It will not run
under Windows 3.0!

WinTach tests the most important Windows 3.1 API calls as determined by 
extensive profiling of commercial application sessions.  It encapsulates 
these API calls with realistic program logic to accurately simulate the type 
of graphics intensive application sessions encountered in today's work place.
The results are evaluated and displayed as the RPM, or Relative Performance 
Measurement, which estimates the performance of your Windows workstation
running real applications.

WinTach may be freely copied and distributed with all files intact and
unmodified.


INSTALLING AND RUNNING WINTACH
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The following files are included:

    wintach.exe     WinTach Program file
    wintach.hlp     WinTach Help file
    install.exe     WinTach Installation Program
    install.ini     Installation ini file


There are two methods available to install WinTach:

    INSTALL     Use the provided Installation program, or

    MANUAL      Manually copy files and create a WinTach program item.
    

INSTALL - Using Install.exe to install WinTach

    1.  Copy all four files listed above to a floppy diskette or temporary
        area on your hard drive or network.

    2.  From the Windows 3.1 Program Manager, select File/Run, and run
        install.exe.  Be sure and include the entire pathname of where you
        copied the files to in step #1 above.  For example, if you copied the
        files to a:\, then enter "a:\install.exe" in the command line dialog
        box.

    3.  Follow the directions provided by the installation program.

    4.  After installation is complete, run WinTach by clicking on the 
        WinTach program icon.  See the WinTach help system for complete usage
        and program description information.


MANUAL  - Manually copy the WinTach files and create a WinTach program item.

    1.  Copy the wintach.exe and wintach.hlp files to your hard drive or
        network drive.

    2.  Add WinTach to one of your program groups.  
    
        a.  From the Windows 3.1 Program Manager, select File/New... and 
            click on "Program Item".  
            
        b.  In the "Command Line" prompt of the Program Item Properties 
            dialog box, enter the drive, directory, and filename where
            WinTach was copied.

        c.  Click "OK".

    3.  Run WinTach by clicking on the WinTach program icon.  See the WinTach
        help system for complete usage and program description information.



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