Getting Ivation Datasystem Inc.'s Beyond 20/20 Software
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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:

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:


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! :-) 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.
This HTML code was created at the Social Science Computing Laboratory, University of Western Ontario, by S. Vincent Gray, Data Resources Librarian.

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