Getting Ivation Datasystem Inc.'s Beyond 20/20 Software
Certain Statistics Canada data sets distributed via the Data Liberation Initiative
are distributed in a tabular format using second-party software. In order to use
these files through IDLS, you must have
Ivation Datasystem Inc.'s Beyond 20/20
browser software installed and running on your local computer.
Data sets that currently rely on Beyond 20/20 are:
- certain 1996 Census data files;
- the Small Area Business and Labour database (SABAL);
- the 1996 Labour Force Historical Review;
- the 1996 Census of Agriculture; and
- the 1997 Health Indicators database.
Click here
to refer to Ivation's Browser QuickStart Guide.
Click here
to download the Beyond 20/20 browser
software. We recommend that you download the file to the C:\ directory.
Once you have downloaded the file to your computer, you must install it on your
computer. To do this:
- click on the Start button
- click on the Run option
- type in the location and name of the file that you downloaded.
- if you have followed the recommendation above, type c:\br41d16i.exe,
and press the Enter key
- if you did not follow the recommendation above, browse to locate the
file that you downloaded
- respond to the prompts: in all instances, pressing Enter will be all
that is necessary
Once you have installed the software, you should have a box on you screen that reads "Installation
complete", followed by some lines of text. This text should indicate that your desktop version of
Netscape has been modified to permit Beyond-20/20 files to be viewed from within Netscape. If you get
this message, and it does not work, or if you do not get this message, do not despair!
You can force Netscape to view these files, whether it wants to co-operate or not! :-)
- Run Netscape
- click on Edit
- click on Preferences
- click on Applications
- click on New Type...
- For Description of type, type Beyond 20/20
- For File extension, type IVT IVD IVX
- For MIME Type, type application/x-beyond2020
- For Application to use, browse your computer disk to find the Beyond 20/20 software;
by default, it should be c:\B2020\WIN16\Ivbrowse.exe
- Click on OK
Having done this, you should now be able to view Beyond 20/20 files from within Netscape, or, more
fairly, you should be able to invoke the Beyond 20/20 software as an add-on from within Netscape to
view Beyond 20/20 files that are referenced by a HTML document.
I have tried using Microsoft's Internet Explorer to view the files: I installed Explorer on
a station where I had already installed Beyond 20/20. It worked fine: I don't know, however,
if Explorer sucked in information from the Netscape configuration, or whether it simply grabbed
the information from the product registry on the station.
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