To have the ArcView Help files work you will need download and install WinHlp32.exe from Microsoft. Using the Is3Engine(File Name: setup32.exe) with its compatibility set to Windows XP SP3, Placed in a WRITABLE folder with the rest of your application install files and run instead of the original setup file (File Name: setup.exe) will allow the software to be installed on a Windows 7 or 8 64 bit system in the normal way.

However the InstallShield Engine is 32-bit and will run on a 64 bit system. The Setup Launcher for ArcView is a 16-bit application and not supported by 64 bit systems. You can also install it normally using the InstallShield 3 Setup Engine ( Is3Engine.zip). It can be copied from an existing installation on a Windows XP machine to Vista, Windows 7 and 8 (search Esri Forums for Instructions). The last release of ArcView GIS was version 3.3 (May 22, 2002), and was offered for both Unix and Windows variants. It is still available, although it only runs on older (PowerPC-based) Mac systems, under Mac OS 9. In 1997, ESRI released its final version supporting Mac OS 9 (3.0a).

It was eventually renamed 'ArcView GIS' by ESRI. This product, when finally released (18 months after its initial release date) was very successful for ESRI and brought GIS technology to many people who had not used it before.ĪrcView 3.x included even more full-featured GIS functionality, including a geoprocessing wizard and full support of extensions for raster and 3d processing. This product was developed using a multi-platform windowing environment called Neuron Data, which allowed the product to be supported on the increasingly popular Windows 95 and Windows 2000, UNIX, and Mac OS 9 platforms. The release did not support Shapefiles at the time.ĪrcView 1 was very popular, and ESRI promised a more functional 2.x version of the product. ESRI's flagship professional GIS at the time, Arc/INFO, was based on a command line interface and was not accessible to users that only needed view and query capability. The simple GUI was preferred by many over the less user friendly, more powerful ARC/INFO that was primarily used from a Command-line interface.ĪrcView 1.0 was released in 1991 to provide access to GIS for non-traditional users of the technology. In subsequent versions, more functionality was added to ArcView and it became a true GIS program capable of complex analysis and data management.

2 Reasons Some Users Prefer ArcView 3.xĪrcView started as a graphical program for spatial data and maps made using ESRI's other software products.

1.4 Windows 7 & 8 installation instructions.

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