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- | How to install Euphoria |
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- Configuration Information
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- To install Euphoria you need:
- * a 386 or higher MS-DOS based computer
- * 250K of free extended memory
- * 1 Mb of free hard disk space.
-
- The Install Procedure
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- 1. cd into the directory containing the Euphoria files
-
- 2. type:
- install
-
-
- For instance, if you have Euphoria on a floppy you would type the
- following two commands:
-
- a: (or b:)
- install
-
- If you have downloaded Euphoria and pkunzip'd in (say) C:\TMP you
- would type:
-
- cd c:\tmp
- install
-
- If you happen to have unzipped into C:\EUPHORIA, that's fine, cd into it
- and type: install.
-
- You can also install under Windows by double-clicking on install.bat.
-
- You will be asked which drive to put the EUPHORIA directory on. Later
- you will be asked to approve any changes to your autoexec.bat file.
- Finally, you need to reboot your machine so the new autoexec.bat will
- take effect.
-
- After installing, see DOC\WHAT2DO.DOC for ideas on how to use this package.
- You should also read README.DOC if you haven't done so already.
-
- The install program is written in Euphoria. See install.ex.
-
- Enjoy!
-
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- If you have problems ...
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-
- * With a 2Mb RAM system, you might get an error message from DOS4GW during
- the install. This is due to a shortage of free extended memory on your
- system. You may be using SMARTDrive, RAMDrive, or some other program that
- ties up a large portion of your extended memory. Comment out the commands
- in your config.sys or autoexec.bat files that start these programs, or at
- least reduce the amount of memory that they reserve. Euphoria needs 250K
- of free extended memory to run. Type "mem" in DOS to find out how much you
- have. Rerun the install program when you have enough free extended memory.
- You may be limited to running under DOS, outside of Windows.
-
- * There are several possible reasons why the install program will decide not
- to edit your autoexec.bat file. Your PATH may be too close to the 127
- character limit; autoexec.bat may be read-only; etc. If this happens you
- should follow the manual procedure part B below.
-
- If you need any help installing Euphoria, send mail to:
- Rapid Deployment Software
- 130 Holm Crescent
- Thornhill, Ontario
- L3T 5J3
- CANADA
-
- or contact us via e-mail:
- [72614,1667] on Compuserve
- R.CRAIG1 on GEnie
- robert.craig@canrem.com on the Internet
-
- Be sure to describe your machine configuration:
- memory, free extended memory, version of MS-DOS, etc.
-
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- Manual Install Procedure (most people can ignore this)
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- In order to show exactly what the install procedure does, and to provide
- support for people with special needs, or anyone who has trouble using the
- automatic install procedure, we outline a set of manual steps below.
-
- Euphoria comes to you on either a floppy disk or a .zip file.
- It contains 80+ files. Initially these will all be in one directory
- on your floppy, or in a hard disk directory that you pkunzip'd into.
-
- You can install Euphoria on any drive and in any directory that you
- want. Below we assume that you want to put it in C:\EUPHORIA.
-
- Part A - set up files
-
- 1. Make the EUPHORIA directory. e.g.
-
- mkdir c:\euphoria
-
- 2. Copy the 80+ files into it.
-
- copy *.* c:\euphoria
-
- 3. Change directories into c:\euphoria.
-
- c:
- cd \euphoria
-
- 4. Organize the files into subdirectories.
-
- The install.ex program contains a list of the subdirectories
- and the files that should go into each subdirectory. You could
- arrange the files yourself, but it will be a lot faster if
- you just type:
- install
- at this point and let the install program perform this step.
- After asking you for the drive letter, it will detect that the
- earlier steps have been performed already. You don't have to
- accept any changes that it proposes to make to your autoexec.bat
- file.
-
- Part B - edit autoexec.bat
-
- 5. In the file c:\autoexec.bat add c:\euphoria\bin to the list of
- directories in your PATH command. You might use the MS-DOS EDIT
- command or any other text editor to do this. e.g.
-
- edit c:\autoexec.bat
-
- (Although Euphoria is not fully installed at this point, you could
- type:
- cd c:\euphoria\bin
- ex ed c:\autoexec.bat
- to edit using the Euphoria editor. See doc\ed.doc.)
-
- 6. In the same autoexec.bat file add a new line:
-
- set eudir=c:\euphoria
-
- The eudir environment variable indicates the full path to
- the main Euphoria directory.
-
- 7. Press Control-Alt-Delete to reboot.
- This will define your new PATH and EUDIR environment variables.
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