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iView - Charting Viewer for IAB®  Statistics for Windows
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(Shareware)             Copyright © 1996 PRS Corporation

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iView v.613 - IAB Web Stats charting/viewer
iView will chart your Web pages access
statistics from the Internet Audit Bureau
(IAB) by day, week, and month.
Straight-line regression analysis.
Shareware (US$16.- MC/Visa/Check)
P.Schwob PRS Corp. prs@prs.com
Web pages on http://www.prs.net/iview

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Description
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iView uses the World Wide Web access statistics generated by
the Internet Audit Bureau to generate charts and graphs
for easy interpretations of these statistics.

iView can produce charts of all the statistics provided
in your (or someone else's) account statistics iAudit page.

  - Daily
  - Weekly
  - Monthly

The Daily chart identifies each day by different colors.
All charts present a Trend Line taking all readings into account.

It is possible to ignore the last data reading as it tends to
be incomplete - and may draw the analysis downwards.

A measure of fitness (Coefficient of Determination 
[0% =>R²=>100%]) is provided, together with the arithmetic
mean (average) of daily requests for this period.
One may select a weighted average instead (more recent data
have more weight.)

When a chart is displayed, you may simply navigate the mouse
pointer on any data line and it will be automatically
identified on the display.

All charts can be saved to:
  - a graphics file (.BMP)
  - a text file (.iab)
  - hard copy (printer)
  - a buffer in memory for comparison to another chart.

The buffer is quite handy as it allows you to quickly
toggle between two charts to compare them.

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iView can be started in two ways:

  1) Automatically
  2) Manually

In order to start iView automatically, you must set up
your WWW browser so that it recognizes files of mime-type
"text/iab" and knows that it should automatically
spawn (invoke) iView.exe when it receives statistics
from the Internet Audit Bureau with mime-type "text/iab".

The process is quite simple. (I'll use Netscape's Navigator in
this example as it is, by far, the most popular browser
out there.)

  a) Run the iView setup and select a directory for it
     (I suggest: \netscape\iview)
  b) Start Netscape's Navigator.
  c) Select the Options menu
  d) Select the Helper Applications submenu
  e) Create a new mime-type with:
     Mime-Type:  text
     SubType:    iab
     Extensions: iab
  Select "Browse" and point to \netscape\iview\iview.exe
  f) Hit "OK"

Once this is done, whenever Netscape receives a stats file
from IAB with mime-type "text/iab", it will place
the data in the temp directory and invoke iView.exe.

All you need to do then is to click the "CHART" key to
view the data in graphics form.

You can then select any one of the other stats and chart them.
If you wish to save the data for later retrieval, you
can use the "Save As..." function in the File menu.
This function will propose to name the file by the current
date (yymmdd.iab) - you can amend that as you wish.

If you have several IAB accounts, simply insert one
unique identifying letter in front of the proposed filename.

I suggest you save all such data in the \netscape\iview dir.

You can, of course, also start iView manually. It will
then bring you back to the last dir you used during the
last session and point to the last file viewed.
Select the file you wish to see and click "CHART".

That's about it.

Final point, you must register this software with PRS Corp.
to use every charting functions. You may do this with
the registration forms available under the Help menu.

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Minimum Requirements
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    - IBM PC compatible machine;
    - MS Windows Version 3.1 or later;
    - Microsoft (or compatible) mouse;
    - Display minimum: 540x480 x 256 colors;
    - VBRUN300.DLL in the \windows\system dir.

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How To Reach Us
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PRS Corporation can be contacted via:
Pierre R. Schwob, President
PRS-Program Research & Software Corporation
Hong Kong
Voice: (+852) 2543-7773
Fax:   (+852) 2541-9843
Internet Email: prs@prs.com
World Wide Web: http://www.prs.net/iview/index.html