Jason

All info to get you started is on this page: www.gestalt.com/Scribe. This is
a temporary location, until a permanent website for Scribe is built. It is
login/password protected: guest/star.

Before getting into the installation and testing, have a look at the video
clips on the given page. This will give you some idea about the design
philosophy of Scribe.

Next, you need to download one of Scribe versions: Personal (one install.exe
file) or Enterprise (client-server version) with two install files:
installC.exe and installS.exe. I assume here that you are going to run it
under Windows. If you choose Linux, your downloaded files will have the
extension .bin.gz. Personal version is quicker to install, but it has less
features (see http://www.gestalt.com/Scribe/ScribeFeatureMatrix.html).

After installing Scribe, and before starting it up, you will need to
download MySQL's JDBC driver from their website. We cannot distribute this
file due to MySQL's interpretation of GPL. See
http://www.gestalt.com/Scribe/databasedrivers.html. The file has to be
copied into Scribe installation directory.

When you start Scribe, it will offer you a choice between a Demo mode, and a
full-featured 30-day license. The demo mode requires no further
communication with us. The 30-day license option will ask you for your
e-mail address (the rest of the fields are optional) and then it will
connect to our server over the Web, the server will generate the license key
and e-mail it to you. Choose whatever you are more comfortable with.

Scribe comes with a number of pre-configured demo reports that run against a
sample McKoi-based "Northwind" database
(http://www.gestalt.com/Scribe/DemoSetup.html). You can have a peek at it
for the sake of getting a quick start. To connect to MySQL, you will need to
set up MySQL connection in either Personal (using menu Launch > DB
Connection... item), or Enterprise Server (Data Sources tab in Scribe Server
Administrator window).

That's all I can tell you at this point; if you run into a roadblock, e-mail
me to: <scribe> at <gestalt> dot <com>. There is also on-line docs available
on our website, and as part of the installed app through JavaHelp (F1), and
the context-sensitive help that you can get on most of windows and their
components (Ctrl-F1).

Finally, you probably missed our initial offer that is no longer visible on
this NG (at least, not through my newsreader). If we get a constructive
feedback from you that helps us fix bugs and/or improve Scribe, we are
willing to give you a fully-enabled permanent license as a "thank-you".

Best regards,

Alex.

PS: we age going to add an automatic update feature to Scribe Enterprise
that will upgrade the existing installation of Scribe to the new release
(Eclipse style) upon user's request. This will happen some time today, or
tomorrow at the latest. You may want to wait until this is done, otherwise,
you will have to download Scribe one more time in order to get the next
release.