Components

This section describes the basic components required to use Dexterity. Depending on the installation options you selected when you installed Dexterity, some additional software, such as the Process Server, may have been installed as well. After you complete the Dexterity installation, the directory where you installed Dexterity will contain the following files:

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File

Description

DEX.EXE

The Dexterity application. You can double-click this file to launch Dexterity.

DEX.DIC

A dictionary used by the Dexterity and Dexterity Utilities applications.

RUNTIME.EXE

The runtime engine used to run your application dictionary in a runtime environment.

DEXUTILS.EXE

The Dexterity Utilities application. Although this software isn’t necessary for Dexterity to operate properly, it is necessary to perform dictionary maintenance.

DEXUTILS.DIC

A dictionary used by the Dexterity Utilities application.

DEX.CHM

The help file for Dexterity.

DEXUTILS.CHM

The help file for Dexterity Utilities.

IMPORT.CHM

The help file for the Import Utility.

RESDESC.CHM

The help file for the Resource Descriptions tool.


Several Dynamic Link Libraries (files with the extension .DLL) are installed with Dexterity. Refer to the COMPNT.PDF file included with Dexterity for a detailed list of DLLs.


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