BIAP go’trieve Pre-release Version CD
Installation Instructions
This is a dual mode CD that contains both the Mac and PC versions of BIAP go’trieve. The disk also includes the user’s guide and a white paper by Chuck Shotton, CEO of BIAP, which details the background, technical considerations, as well as the user’s 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 user’s guide
REVIEWER.PDF	a PDF version of the go’trieve white paper

Additional Requirements:
BIAP go’trieve 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 go’trieve that was placed on your desktop.
3. go’trieve 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 user’s guide
Reviewer's Notes.pdf		a PDF version of the go’trieve white paper

Additional Requirements:
BIAP go’trieve 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 go’trieve on the Mac.
Also, go’trieve 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 “go’trieve™” application from the installed folder.
3. go’trieve 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 go’trieve.

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BIAP’s go’trieve 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, go’trieve 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 go’trieve, or can consist of files and content created by the user or maintained on the user’s local computer. Unlike traditional portals, content aggregators, metabrowsers, search engines, and community of interest sites, go’trieve is completely independent of any centralized service and operates on the behalf of a single user.
While go’trieve 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.
