In General
For 1990 Census CDs that use the GO software, no installation is required to use them. All you have to do is put the disk in a drive, open up Windows Explorer (or a non-Microsoft equivalent) and double-click on "Go.bat."
DO NOT try to run the software by clicking on the "somefilename.exe" file. GO software only works when you start with Go.bat.
Determining whether a title uses GO software is easy: if it does, there's going to be a Go.bat file on the CD. If there's no Go.bat, it doesn't use GO. See Using the U.S. Census Bureau's GO Software for details.
For titles that don't use GO, the situation is more complicated; contact me in those cases.
Posted by bgi at July 13, 2005 04:42 PM | Email This Entry