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Appropriate Technology Library The 44 CD set of CD3WD, created by Alex Weir,

and packaged by Rich Fleetwood Documentation as of December 2008

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APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY

How to set up and access the files on your DVDs.

First of all, thank you for purchasing this package from us. We are glad to offer it, and to try to get this

information out as far and wide as possible. In developing this 4 disk package, we created an easy to

duplicate set of files, that can be put on any computer with a DVD drive and enough hard drive space to

unarchive the files as needed. The files can also be shared online either in archive form, or as unarchived

and reader friendly as you can make it.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need at least 30 gigabytes (30,000 megabytes) of open disk space on your

main hard drive to extract and create your library files on your computer. If you dont have this much

space, you can do one disk at a time, as needed.

The short way to access the eBooksfor experts.

1. Insert a disk into your DVD drive.2. Open your COMPUTER link, and go to the /Archive/ folder, where all the actual ZIP files reside.3. Double click on each ZIP file, and extract ALL files within each ZIP file, for ALL zip files on EACH

disk, to ONE directory, which well call the WORK DIRECTORY. This is a temporary directory,

which well delete when done.

4. After extracting all files, from every zip file, to the work directory, well run a BATCH file calledSETUP.BAT. This one file, will extract almost 17 gigabytes of HTML, text, and PDF eBooks that

form our library.

5. The extraction process for all these files will take about an hour. When the CMD window finishescreating all the eBook files at C:\CD3WD_40, then you can delete the WORK DIRECTORY and all

its contents.

6. To access your new Appropriate Technology Library, navigate toC:\cd3wd_40\CD3WD\index.htm and double click on that file.

7. Your browser will start up, and you may then read ALL your new eBooks.Now, heres the DETAILED step by step process with pictures for everyone else.

Here is how to access the files and the disk, and to save them to your computer, and to extract them for

reading and printing.

1.Insert a disk (any of the fourthey are all set up the same way) into your computer DVD drive. Ifyou are using a Microsoft Windows based system, the disk should Autorun, start your default

web browser, and show this page.


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2.If the page doesnt load automatically, use your MY COMPUTER link to open the CD in whateverdrive you placed the disk in. Open the file called openmefirst.htm .

3.After opening the file with your browser, youll see this screen.

Notice the area that has the Welcome to CD3WD 4 DVD Volume One. Youll see that this part of the

web page has a scroll bar on the right side.

Lets take a closer look at that part of the screen.


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If you click and drag on the scroll bar button, you will find the direct links to the file archives for each CD

image.

You have two ways to access the ZIP file archives from here. Click on the archive.htm file, and this page

will open up, or click on the ZIP file to automatically open it in another window.

Upon clicking on one of the ZIP files, your ZIP unarchiving program should open this file. Windows XP

and Vista will open this file with no problem. I do, however recommend a free open source program

called 7-zip. You can get it athttp://www.7-zip.org/. It is completely free, and opens a myriad of other

file types. 7-zip is a powerful and full featured alternative to the native ZIP tool in Windows.

Here are the files supported by 7-zip for archiving or extracting.

Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR

and Z.

Lets open up the first file, and see what we have. These are the contents of the file CD3WD401.ZIP.
http://www.7-zip.org/http://www.7-zip.org/http://www.7-zip.org/http://www.7-zip.org/


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Note the very first file in this image. It is a standard Windows text file, also known as a batch file. This

file automatically runs each of the .exe files, all of which are self extracting files covering specific topics

or areas of emphasis.

Now that we have opened up this file, lets EXTRACT the contents to any drive. If you are a Windows

Vista user, select the PUBLIC folder, as seen in the next image. You will see underDESKTOP, my

username RAFLEET which is my computer user account. Below that is the Public folder. Select that

folder, and then type in the disk name, to create a directory where the files will be, such as DiskOne,

and then hit the OK button to begin the extraction process, which will take several minutes. Let the

extraction process take the files from the ZIP archive and put them into our work folder.


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Change the Destination path from the E:\Archives\CD3WD40* above, to this

This folder will be the holding folder for all of the files that will be processed in the final eBook creation

step.

Just to show you what is in the batch file, here is the SETUP.BAT file contents for CD one.


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Again, EACH of these .exe files contain MANY eBooks on specific subjects and areas of expertise.

Here are the contents of Disk One.


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BEFORE you run the SETUP.BAT file, you want to extract EVERY file from ALL 44 of the ZIP archives, into

our work folder DISKONE, as in the case above. You can rename the DISKONE folder to anything you

want. At the end of the extraction process, you will be deleting this entire folder and all of its contents.

Why? Because when were done extracting, ALL the EXE files will be extracted and the eBook library

created AT THE SAME TIME.

As you are extracting files from EACH ZIP file, you will see that EVERY disk image has a SETUP.BAT file.

Please allow your extraction program (Windows ZIP, 7-zip, WinZip, WinRar, or whatever you are using)

to OVERWRITE the current BAT file.

Why? Because the original library consisted of the first TWO CDs. Each successive CD added to the set

had an UPDATED SETUP.BAT file that included all previous files on each of the CDs, plus the file contents

of the new CD. This continues all the way to CD 44.

Once all of the files from all 44 disk images are extracted into your temporary folder called DiskOne(or

whatever you name this folder), you can click on the folder in MY COMPUTER, and RIGHT CLICK on theproperties for the folder. You should see something similar to this.


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At this point youll be using 13.3 gigabytes of disk space on your system for the temporary files.

NOW you are ready to run the SETUP.BAT file, to create the final HTML, TXT, and PDF files that you will

finally be able to read.

If you run the batch file (.BAT), it will extract ALL exe files, defaulting to your C:\, or root, drive. It will

create a folder called C:\CD3WD

Upon double clicking on the BAT file, the CMD (command) run window of Windows will show a box like

this.

As the batch file opens each file, it will give the location (C:\usersetc) and the file name it has opened

and started to extract the actual eBooks.

When the batch process is complete, the run cmd window will close automatically.

After the batch files have finished, you may delete the DISKONE folder (or whatever you named it). I

would recommend that you do this as soon as you can, as the files within that folder take up almost 14

gigabytes of hard drive space, and you dont need to store them on your hard drive. If for any reason

you have to delete the C:\CD3WD_40 folder (where the unarchived eBooks are located), you will have

to repeat this process, from inserting the DVDs to running the batch file, all over again.

See the next page for details regarding the AT Library and your computer resources.


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The image below is what your C:\CD3WD_40 will look like, and how much space is used by the library.

This vast library contains over 16 gigabytes of information. See the info below on creating a shortcut to

easily access your new library.

Follow the instructions here to create a shortcut to your new Appropriate Technology Library.

The process may take up to 1 hour if all 44 CD images are being installed. When the process has finished,

then make a shortcut in the directory C:\cd3wd_40\CD3WD to the file C:\cd3wd_40\CD3WD\index.htm

and drag that shortcut out on to the desktop. Double clicking on that shortcut will start the main menu

Note that these instructions are for Windows PCs - Linux experts and users will know how to unzip the

.zip files and unpack the self-extracting .exe (zip) files.

Now, go readand learn from this library.


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CREDITS and COPYRIGHT

This document, screen captures and graphics, and on disk navigation created by Richard Fleetwood

(Founder and Director of SurvivalRing Unlimited www.survivalring.org)

Copyright 2008/2009 All Rights Reserved.

Permission to reuse this documentation on any other website or printed format is allowed as long as

these three statements are left AS IS, and proper credits given to all involved in the production of this

digital archive.

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