BIAP gotrieve Pre-release Version CD
Installation Instructions
This is a dual mode CD that contains both the Mac and PC versions of BIAP gotrieve. The disk also includes the users guide and a white paper by Chuck Shotton, CEO of BIAP, which details the background, technical considerations, as well as the users view of the product.

Please follow the installation instructions for your specific type of computer below.
PC running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT
CD Contents:
GOTRIEVE.EXE		this is the installer application.
USERGUID.PDF		an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the users guide
REVIEWER.PDF	a PDF version of the gotrieve white paper

Additional Requirements:
BIAP gotrieve requires that your Web browser be Internet Explorer 4.1 or later, or Netscape Navigator 4.1 or later.

Installing on the PC:
1. Insert the CD and run GOTRIEVE.EXE from the CD. 
2. Once the installation is complete, run the short-cut to gotrieve that was placed on your desktop.
3. gotrieve will launch your browser automatically. Follow the instructions in your browser to complete the installation.

Mac running MacOS 8.5 or later
CD Contents:
BIAP go'trieve Installer		the installer application
go'trieve User's Guide.pdf	the Adobe Acrobat version of the users guide
Reviewer's Notes.pdf		a PDF version of the gotrieve white paper

Additional Requirements:
BIAP gotrieve requires Internet Explorer 4.5 or later, or Netscape Navigator 4.1 or later. Note that Internet Explorer 5.0 on the Mac has a flaw that reduces its performance significantly when used to access content from other applications running on the same machine. Until corrected, BIAP recommends using Netscape Navigator with gotrieve on the Mac.
Also, gotrieve is a fat binary on the Mac, so it is compatible with 68k or PowerPC machines.

Installing on the Mac:
1. Insert the CD and run the BIAP go'trieve Installer application.
2. Once the installation is complete, run the gotrieve application from the installed folder.
3. gotrieve will launch your browser automatically. Follow the instructions in your browser to complete the installation.
Note: if your browser fails to launch, make sure you have a default browser selected in your Internet (or Internet Config for older Macs) control panel and restart gotrieve.

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BIAPs gotrieve product represents a fundamentally new way for desktop users to interact with the Internet. It provides a standards-based platform designed from the ground up to facilitate peer-to-peer networking activities in an efficient, easy-to-use package. In its basic configuration, gotrieve can be viewed as a desktop portal, providing the user with a customized view of data on the Internet as well as their own local data and information, including e-mail and instant messages. This data can be retrieved by intelligent agents created through and executed by gotrieve, or can consist of files and content created by the user or maintained on the users local computer. Unlike traditional portals, content aggregators, metabrowsers, search engines, and community of interest sites, gotrieve is completely independent of any centralized service and operates on the behalf of a single user.
While gotrieve functions out of the box as a system for intelligent agents to collect and publish content for an individual via a standard Web browser-oriented interface, the functionality of the product goes much deeper. Add-ons enable features such as serverless communities of interest, personal WAP publishing directly to wireless devices, collaborative search and data exchange, and other forms of interaction such as peer-to-peer chat.
