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- INSTALLATION
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- EXISTING USERS START HERE
- If you have installed a previous version of FORM you should do
- two things.
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- 1. backup your sstools.ini file to prevent it being
- overwritten.
-
- 2. backup your FORM.EXE until you have verified that
- everything looks OK under the new version. Everything
- should work <grin> but who can say for sure? After all
- only taxes are certain.
-
- NEW USERS START HERE
-
- To install this version of the form program you should first
- create a directory for it (In this tutorial we will call this
- directory C:\FORM).
-
- Change to that directory.
-
- Then type a:\FORMxx -d, this will extract the files from the
- archive into the current directory creating sub directories as needed.
-
- NOTE you must extract with the -d option.
-
- When you have finished you should have a directory structure like
- this
-
- C:\FORM This directory contains form.exe, and a
- | sample sstools.inx
- + SHAPES some sample shapes
- + SUE some more shapes by Sue (worth a look I promise)
- + FORMINCS hummm?
- + DOCS the docs
-
- rename SSTOOLS.INX to SSTOOLS.INI
-
- read the section in tutor.doc on configuring, this will help you to
- get better resolution displays at a much faster rate.
-
- Now read the tutorial.
- Then FAQ.DOC
- and then if you're a real sucker for punishment read
- FORM.DOC and LANGUAGE.DOC
-
- OLD USERS START HERE
- Back up everything, I can't be responsible for my changes.
-
- FORM04
- There have been no changes to the language at all.
- BEWARE: I have been dogged by an erratic crashing bug that I
- still havent been able to track down. I am releasing this
- version because I'm getting fed up with looking for it.
- Everything new is described in mutations.doc
-
- FORM03
- BEWARE since SCALE has changed it's implementation you will need
- your previous version of FORM to recreate your pictures without
- editing.
-
- Copy relevant new lines from sstools.inx to your sstools.ini.
- I don't think there are any.
-
- You will need to change all objects named "spacer" to something
- else, as this is now an inbuilt object.
-
- Beware, SCALE has now changed its meaning.
-
- read the WHATSNEW.TXT file.
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- File List
- FORM.EXE The main executable
-
- SSTOOLS.INX Rename to sstools.ini
- a sample .INI file, FORM reads it's defaults from
- this. User editable. If you have used fractint or
- fractint for windows then you may already have a
- sstools.ini file on your path. You can copy the
- [FORM] section from this sstools.ini file into
- your own sstools.ini, or not if you don't want
- to.
-
- README.1ST a readme file, with a short description of
- things, hardware requirements etc.
- I do hope you've already read it.
-
- INSTALL.DOC This file. But of course you already know that!
- Information on how to install FORM, and what the
- files are for.
-
- FORMVUE.POV a "template" POV raytracer file (POV is a public
- domain raytracer that is supported by FORM).
-
- FORMVUE2.POV a "template" for POV2.
-
- SHAPES\ a directory containing sample .FRM shapes
- (contents may vary).
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- SUE\ a directory containing forms created by SUE CUNNINGHAM
-
- FORMINCS\ a directory containing a single .FRI
- file. (contents may vary).
-
- DOCS\
- whatsnew.txt whats new, what I'm going to do, and a blow
- by blow history
-
- faq.doc pretend questions and answers
-
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- options.doc A complete description of the command line
- flags, SSTOOLS.INI equivalents, and a list of
- the defaults
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- form.doc credits, notes, and legal blurb
-
-
-
- language.doc a poor description of the language, does list
- the keywords though.
-
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- tutor.doc the tutorial
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- rummy@snaffle.demon.co.uk
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- Andrew Rowbottom
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