These are notes for installing “Escape!”, PC Version 2.

System requirements:

“Escape!” needs about 100KB of disk space if “Green Globs” or “Relating Graphs to 
Events” is already installed.  (The programs share the same Visual Basic 6 run-time 
support files.)

“Escape!” needs less than 3 MB of disk space otherwise.

You need a monitor with screen resolution at least 1024 by 768.  The graphing displays 
in Escape.exe use most of a 1024 by 768 screen.  These windows assume a display DPI 
setting of “Normal” (96 DPI), which is the default.  (In Windows XP, you see the DPI 
setting by choosing Control Panel – Display – Settings – Advanced – General.)  If you 
need a screen resolution or DPI setting which the current program does not display 
well, contact us.

Files:

You need two files to install this software:

“PC Escape.zip” – a compressed file that anyone can download from the updates page 
of www.greenglobs.net.  It contains the application file “Escape.exe” and associated 
run-time support files.

“Green Globs Records.ggg” (or any copy) - a document file that contains your 
individual license information.  “Escape.exe” will not run unless you put a copy of 
“Green Globs Records.ggg” in the same folder as “Escape.exe”.

“PC Escape.zip” also includes these two files:

“Read Me Install Escape.txt” - a text file about installing the PC version.

“Manual for Escape.pdf”  - a teacher’s manual for both the PC and the Mac versions.  

The above two files are available without running the installation program.  The 
installer does not do anything with them.  You can copy them like other files in 
Windows to another folder.  (If you want, you can copy them to the same folder you 
designate for the installer.)

Installing “Escape!” is a two-step process:

Step 1.  Run file “setup.exe”.

You will be asked to select or create a folder where you want the installation program to 
place Escape.exe.  Escape.exe will run in any folder, as long as a copy of Green Globs 
Records.ggg is put in the same folder (see Step 2 below).  The remaining files in the 
package are support files for running Escape.exe, which is a Visual Basic 6 (32-bit) 
application.  The installation program will automatically place those support files in the 
appropriate Windows or System folders, if needed.  (File SETUP.LST lists where each 
file goes.)  The installation program will not replace an existing file on your disk with an 
older version.

After this step, you will have these two files in the folder you designated during 
installation:

Escape.exe - an application file whose title screen says “Escape!”.  

ST6UNST.LOG – a text file created automatically by the installation program during 
installation to record which files were installed in which folders.  It is used by the 
Windows Control Panel if you uninstall  “Escape!”.  (If the folder already had a file with 
that name from installing previous applications, the file name will be ST6UNST.000 or 
ST6UNST.001, etc.)


Step 2.  Put a copy of your file “Green Globs Records.ggg” in the same folder where 
you installed Escape.exe. 

“Green Globs Records.ggg” is a document file (called a Records file) that contains your 
license information displayed on the title screen.   Escape.exe reads your license 
information from this file, but does not write to it.

Installation is complete.  To uninstall Escape.exe, open the Windows Control Panel 
and select “Add or Remove Programs”, then select “Escape!”.  If you put a copy of 
“Green Globs Records.ggg” in the folder where Escape.exe was installed, you will 
need to delete “Green Globs Records.ggg” afterwards if you want it removed.

A special note if you are installing more than one application to be placed in the 
“Green Globs” group on the Start menu:  in Windows XP (and maybe in other versions 
of Windows), the Start menu may not list the files in the “Green Globs” group in the 
order you installed them.  If you want the files to be listed in the order you installed 
them, it appears that you can get that by selecting each application from the Start 
menu immediately after you install the application, before you install the next 
application in the “Green Globs” group.

For licensing or contact information, please see www.greenglobs.net. 
Dave Kibbey

