This page contains links for everything necessary to download and install/upgrade to Swap V4. The links are all ftp links and you should be able to use the save as ... or save link as ... options from within your browser to save the files locally.

COMMON20.ZIP a library of routines used by all the products in the Cohort Suite. You do not install this product but it must be present for the Swap installation to work correctly.

Swap40.ZIP the actual Swap Version 4 software distribution. This files contains both the VAX and AXP versions of Swap.

INSTLGD3.PDF the Cohort V3 installation guide with complete instructions for installing the Cohort suite of products. The guide also includes a sample Swap installation. The manual is in the Adobe Acrobat Public Document Format; most browsers can read these files and free viewers for many platforms are available from www.adobe.com; no official .pdf viewer is available for OpenVMS, however, we do plan to publish our documentation to .html as well for the final Cohort V3 release. It is possible to print documentation from within the Acrobat reader.

Swap40U.PDF is the complete Swap Version 4 user manual. It includes release notes for V4 under the section "New Features in Version 4". This document is also in the .PDF format.

A 30 day demo license is available for Swap or Cohort by contacting Saiga Systems directly. Current users should note that the license key used for previous version(s) of Swap or Cohort will need to be replaced by a current license which must be loaded before running Swap V4.0; your existing license will not work. Please contact us directly to obtain a license for this version if you don't already have one. However, this license will not interfere with existing license(s) if you plan to run a mixture of Cohort V2 and Cohort V3 modules.

*NEW* The Swap V4 User Manual and the Cohort V3 Installation Guide are now on-line in .html format. They can also be downloaded in a zip file for extracting under Windows: s4usehtm.zip, c3inhtm.zip.

A new variable feature has been added to Swap so that it can be used to reformat records. A special counter variable has also been added that can be used to automatically insert numeric values into records during the reformatting process; the user specifies the starting value, width of the numeric output and the increment.