Using the Mathematica Batch Registration Utility

These instructions explain how to use the Batch Registration Utility.
The Utility allows you to gather the necessary Mathematica registration  
information for a large number of machines and then register that
information with Wolfram Research.

QUICK START

1. If you downloaded the MathID Collector from the web, copy it to a floppy
   diskette.

2. Insert the floppy diskette on the machine where you wish to install
   Mathematica.

3. Double-click the MathID Collector icon.

4. A dialog box appears, asking if you wish to append the MathID to
   the files mathid.txt and submit.html. Click "Append".

5. Remove the floppy and continue to the next machine. Perform steps 2
   through 4 for each machine.

6. Either email the file mathid.txt with your license number, name,
   department, email address, phone number, and the location where
   these passwords are needed; or use the form submit.html to send the
   information over the web. The passwords will be sent to your site
   administrator.


COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS

If you downloaded the registration utility from the web, copy
the file to a floppy diskette. If you received your diskette directly
from Wolfram Research, you should already have the necessary file.

The file on the diskette is:

-MathID Collector. The batch registration utility program. For each machine
 on which the program is run, it collects a special identification
 number that is unique to that machine, the MathID. This number is
 useful only to Wolfram Research and is necessary for Wolfram Research
 to generate a password for that machine.

This utility generates:

-mathid.txt. An ASCII file constructed by the batch registration
 program. As MathIDs are collected, they are appended to this
 file. When you start the registration utility, this file
 is also searched to verify whether a MathID has already been
 generated for the given machine. Duplicate mathids are not appended.

-submit.html. An HTML file. As MathIDs are appended to the
 ASCII file, they are inserted in this file, which can then
 be used to send the information to Wolfram Research through the web.

1. Perform the following steps on each machine where you wish to
   install Mathematica.

        a. Insert the floppy diskette.
        b. Double-click the Batch Registration Utility.
        c. A dialog box appears with the MathID.
        
           You are asked if you wish to append the MathID to the
           file mathid.txt and update the HTML form submit.html.
           Click "Append" to append the MathID to this file and also
           the HTML form. The program then exits.

           If the MathID is already present in the file mathid.txt,
           you are only allowed to quit. The necessary information
           is already present in both files.

        d. Remove the floppy and continue to next machine.

2. After you have performed these steps on every machine that requires
   a Mathematica password, you must send the registration information
   to Wolfram Research. You may send it by email or through the web.

        a. To send this information by email, send a text message to
           register@wolfram.com. Be sure to include:
                -your license number
                -the location (lab or facility) where these passwords
                 are needed
                -your name
                -your department
                -your email address
                -your phone number
                -the entire file mathid.txt

        b. To send this information through the web, start your browser
           and open the file submit.html. The MathIDs should already be
           present in the appropriate text field. Fill the other
           fields with:
                -your license number
                -the location (lab or facility) where these passwords
                 are needed
                -your name
                -your department
                -your email address
                -your phone number

           After you have filled all the text fields, click the button
           "Connect to Wolfram Research".

3. An email message will be sent to the site administrator. The email
   contains one Mathematica password for each
   submitted MathID. Save all the passwords into one text file and call
   it mathpass.

4. Install Mathematica on one of the machines. When you are asked to
   give the password, you may simply continue the installation without
   giving a password. This will cause a warning message, but you may
   continue the installation.

5. Copy the file mathpass and place it within the main Mathematica
   directory, to :Configuration:Licensing:mathpass.

6. Copy this installation of Mathematica to all other machines.

Now, when Mathematica is started on any machine, it will
search the mathpass file on the local machine for the correct password.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

The following notes are suggestions on the uses of the Batch  
Registration Utility.

When using the Registration Utility for several laboratories, make a
copy of the diskette for each laboratory and label as appropriate.

After running the utility on each machine in a laboratory, copy the
data files mathid.txt and submit.html into a lab-specific folder or
diskette as a backup.

The registration utility may be run from a central server. In this
situation, MathID Collector should be placed in a folder so that the files 
mathid.txt and submit.html will be generated and placed in the same
folder. You may then run MathID Collector from this server and have the  
MathIDs appended to the files.