WINDOWS POPLOG README                       Robert Duncan, November 1996
Modified Aaron Sloman 28 Jul 1999

This is an experimental version of Poplog 15.5 for use with Microsoft
Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0.

It was not originally intended for general release, but is now made
available "AS IS" as part of the "Free Poplog" collection, by courtesy
of the University of Sussex.

Please note that this is a very early release. It has not been
extensively tested, particularly on Windows 95 and NT 4.0, and there are
various features and libraries available under Unix which are missing
from this version. It does not yet provide a standard Windows interface
or any support for Windows programming, although adventurous users can
use external load to import Win32 API functions.

To install Poplog you will need:

    (a) An Intel PC

    (b) Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT

    (c) A minimum of 32Mb free disk space

Start by copying the entire contents of the ten directories

    DISK1/
    ...
    DISK10/

If you have network access and a file transfer program you can copy
these directly to the hard drive of your PC and install from there.
Create a new temporary directory on your hard drive to receive the files
with at least 13Mb free; you can delete the directory again once
installation is complete. It makes no difference to the installation
whether you copy the directories themselves or just the files they
contain: choose whichever method is easier for your file transfer
program. In either case, be sure to copy all the files in binary mode,
i.e. without translations of any kind.

If you don't have network access via your PC, but you have fetched and
untarred the .tar.gz file on another system, then copy the directory
contents to ten blank 1.44Mb diskettes. From the diskettes you can copy
the files to your PC.

Once you have copied all the files, install Poplog by running the
program

    SETUP.EXE

from Disk 1. You should close all other applications before running this
program. It will

    (a) prompt you to select an installation directory

    (b) copy files into that directory

    (c) update the registry

    (d) create a Poplog icon on the Start Programs menu or a new Program
        Manager group as appropriate for your version of Windows

An uninstall option is provided in case you want to delete Poplog later
on.

You are recommended to read thoroughly the README.TXT file, supplied on
Disk 1 and copied to the installation directory, which documents various
differences with using Poplog on Windows. The file has been copied to

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/new/pcwinpoplog.readme.txt
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/new/pcwinpoplog.readme.txt

for the convenience of potential users of PC Poplog.

This version of Poplog is entirely unsupported. If you have problems
with its installation or use, you can post them to the comp.lang.pop
news group, or to pop-forum  AT cs.bham.ac.uk


NOTE: Problem with Winzip (Now Fixed)

The original tar.gz file for windows Poplog did not work with WinZip.
This was fixed on 27 Jul 1999. The new version which does work with
WinZip is in
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/new/new/pcwin-15.5.tar.gz

The following instructions are relevant if you have the older version,
fetched before 27 July 1999.

Disk1 one should have several files in it including one empty file,
disk1.id, setup.exe and others. Each of the other files should have two
files, an empty file with suffix ".id" and a large non-empty file. If
you have used winzip to extract the files from the distribution file,
you will find that it fails to create the ten empty files.

    disk1/disk1.id, disk2/disk2.id, .... disk10/disk10.id

(This will not be a problem if the files are extracted using tar,
e.g. on a unix machine, then transferred.)

Create the empty .id files yourself before trying to install Poplog, as
directed above.