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All Electronic PictureBooks are  available for purchase on diskette or 
CD-ROM from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) and the NASA 
Core offices.  You can contact them by phone or write for a full catalog 
to:  

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 
390 Ashton Ave., 
San Francisco, Calfiornia  94112
415-337-2624.
or
NASA CORE
Lorain County JVS
1518 Rt. 58 South
Oberlin, OH 44074
216-774-1051 ext 293.
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Electronic PictureBooks
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Welcome to the world of Electronic PictureBooks! This ReadMe provides 
instructions on how to open and use your new Electronic PictureBook.

You have permission to use, copy, and distribute this Electronic 
Picturebookand its related documentation for non-commercial purposes 
provided that (i) all copyright notices and this permission notice 
appear in all copies of the software and its related documentation, (ii) 
that HyperCard Player is distributed and used only with this Electronic 
PictureBook, and (iii) the name Electronic PictureBook or the 
trademark ExInEd are not used in any advertising or publicity relating 
to the Electronic PictureBook without the specific, prior written 
permission of Space Telescope Science Institute, 
Baltimore, MD.

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Section 1:  Installing the Electronic PictureBook
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A.  If you downloaded the Electronic PictureBook via Internet:

Electronic PictureBooks are sent via the Internet as compressed, 
binhexed files. Before an Electronic PictureBook can be opened, it must 
first be de-binhexed and then decompressed.

Some popular application software programs, such as Gopher, 
automatically de-binhex files as part of the downloading process. 
Other programs, such as Telnet, do not automatically de-binhex files.  
If the name of the file you have downloaded ends in .sea, then the 
file has been de-binhexed. If it ends in .hqx, it has not been de-
binhexed.

If the file has already been de-binhexed, it must still be decompressed 
and installed on your machine. To perform this procedure, begin by 
creating a file on your hard drive named Electronic PictureBooks (do 
this by selecting "New Folder" under the File menu). Next, double-click 
on the Electronic PictureBook icon to bring up a window asking you where 
on your hard drive you wish the file to be placed.  Select the 
Electronic PictureBooks folder, and click on Extract to decompress 
the file and place it in a usable form in the selected folder. To open 
the Electronic PictureBook, simply double-click on the Electronic 
PictureBook's new icon in the Electronic PictureBooks folder.

If your application program has not automatically de-binhexed the 
Electronic PictureBook file, you will need to de-binhex and decompress 
the Electronic PictureBook file before opening it. If you do not already 
have a de-binhexing program, several of them are available as shareware 
or freeware on the Internet. We recommend BinHex 4.0. After de-binhexing 
the file using your chosen software, you can double-click on the file 
icon, select where on your hard drive you wish the file to be placed, 
and click on "Extract" to decompress the file and place it in a usable 
form on your machine. (Again, we recommend that you place it in a 
spearate folder on your hard drive called Electronic PictureBooks.) To 
open the Electronic PictureBook, simply double-click on the Electronic 
PictureBook's new icon.


B.  If you retrieved the file using a modem:

 The Electronic PictureBook will be in its compressed form called a 
self-extracting archive. In order to open the Electronic PictureBook, 
you must do the following:

1) Create a new folder on your hard disk and name it Electronic 
PictureBooks.  (To do this, select New Folder from the File menu 
and type in the name Electronic PictureBooks.)

2) Double click on the Icon ending with the suffix .sea.

3) At the window Self-unstuffing archive, press Continue, which will 
produce a dialog box asking you to indicate where you would like to 
place the Electronic PictureBook.

4) Select the folder entitled Electronic PictureBooks which you 
created in step 1, and click on Save. A time bar will show the progress 
of the installation procedure. 

5) When the installation is complete, a dialog box will appear stating 
Installation was successful!

To open the Electronic PictureBook, double-click on the Electronic 
PictureBooks icon.


Keep in mind that for Electronic PictureBooks to work correctly on your 
system, you must have the following:

1. HyperCard 2.1 or HyperCard Player 2.1 (or a later version);
2. At least 2500k of free RAM.
3. System 7.0 (or a later version).

If you do not have a current version of HyperCard (HyperCard 2.1 or 
newer), see Section 2 below.

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Section 2: Installing HyperCard Player 2.1
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You may have chosen to download HyperCard Player 2.1 with your 
Electronic PictureBook. Please note that this software is under license 
to the developer, and that you may use it only with this Electronic 
PictureBook. If you already have HyperCard 2.1 or a later version, you 
do not need to install the HyperCard Player software on your machine. 

Regardless of whether you downloaded the HyperCard Player file using a 
modem or via Internet, the file is contained in a folder with your 
Electronic PictureBook. Hence, the de-binhexing/decompression process 
used for the Electronic PictureBook will most likely be performed 
automatically on the HyperCard Player file as well. If not, you must go 
through the same steps of de-binhexing and decompressing the file as was 
done for the Electronic PictureBook file, described in Section B above.

We recommend that you keep HyperCard Player in the Electronic 
PictureBook folder created in step 1 above. 

HyperCard Player requires at least 2500 K to operate the Electronic 
PictureBook stack. To be sure you have that amount of memory allocated 
to it, open the HyperCard Player Get Info box by clicking once on the 
HyperCard Player icon to highlight  it (do not launch the application), 
and then select Get Info from the File menu. A box will appear with 
information about the software. Find the Preferred Size or "Current 
Size" box in the lower right corner. It should say 2000. If it does 
not, type 2000 in the Preferred Size or "Current Size" box, and then 
close the Get Info box. If you are unable to enter information in the 
"Preferred Size" box, check to see that the the "Locked" box in the left 
hand corner of the window is unlocked. If it is locked, click on the x 
in the Locked box to unlock the Preferred Size box.


HyperCard and HyperCard Player are registered trademarks of Apple 
Computer, Inc.


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Note: Electronic PictureBooks are produced by the Exploration in 
Education (ExInEd) program at the Special Studies Office of the Space 
Telescope Science Institute. The purpose of the ExInEd program is to 
discover new tools and approaches to relate space science and 
exploration to basic teaching and learning, and involves searching for 
new ways to assemble and distribute the results of research, 
particularly images. For more information on the ExInEd program, or to 
provide comments or suggestions on the Electronic PictureBook concept, 
please write: 
ExInEd 
Space Telescope Science Institute
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218.  
email: ExInEd@stsci.edu
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