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- Information about this Galahad Release
-
- The Galahad Collection of software has been developed at Clarkson
- University to provide a powerful editor and word processor for its students.
- As you probably recall, Clarkson was the first educational institution to
- provide all of its incoming Freshman with a personal computer. We currently
- have 4000 personal computers on campus, and have an additional 3500 alumni with
- a Clarkson computer, which was Clarkson's graduation present to them.
-
- Galahad is copyrighted yet freely copyable software. We encourage anyone
- who would like to use a powerful Emacs-like editor, and a capable text
- formatter, to use the Galahad Collection software. PLEASE read the Galahad
- Public License in the file GALAHAD.LIC on this diskette.
-
- The features of Galahad and its associated software are:
-
- An editor with many editing functions, programmable keys, all working in
- ASCII format.
- A text formatter which is simple to use, and yet offers desktop publishing
- features when used with a PostScript printer. The text formatter uses
- ASCII text.
- An editor and text formatter which may be either integrated or used
- independently.
- A text formatter which supports scientific equations, and provides
- on-screen previewing of the printed document.
- Real-time spelling checking as the user enters text.
- On-line word spelling lookup.
- Off-line spelling checking of an entire document, with text error marking
- and lexicon updating.
- On-line Prose Analysis of selected text.
- Off-line Prose Analysis of an entire document.
- On-line help and Style Manual.
- Personalized help screens, created by the user or instructor.
- A text formatter which can be installed on UNIX systems for ease of printer
- access.
-
- The Galahad documentation is copyrighted. Printed copies may be obtained
- from Clarkson University. The entire documentation is included on the Galahad
- Distribution Disk #4. It is in archive format, and may be un-archived as
- discussed below. You may print a copy of the Galahad documentation for you own
- use, but you may not print multiple copies and distribute them without
- permission from Clarkson University. A PostScript printer is required to print
- the Galahad documentation.
-
- Getting Started
-
- To get started with Galahad you need to read one (or two) short
- document(s), and Chapter One of the Galahad Manual. These are on the
- documentation disk, but they have been copied to the Galahad Distribution Disk
- #2 in un-archived form, so that you can get started without going through the
- un-archive process. Since you need to read the files but do not as yet know
- how to use Galahad, we have chicken and egg problem. We will explain how to
- read them after suggesting what to read first.
-
- To get started please read:
-
- 1) "Getting Started With Galahad 2.10" in the file H2START.GAL. If your
- computer does not have a high capacity disk drive (1.2 Mbyte) nor a hard disk,
- you should use the instructions in "Using Galahad on Two 360K Disk Drives" in
- the file H2TWODSK.GAL. PLEASE NOTE: There is an error in the printed copy of
- "Getting Started With Galahad 2.10". The editor is PER.COM not PER.EXE. Also,
- the order of the files on the distribution disks may be different than that
- described in these articles.
-
- 2) Chapter One of the Galahad Manual in the file GALCH1.GAL.
-
- 3) Before you get serious with Galahad and start printing, you should read
- the article "How To Install A New Printer In GALAHAD 2.10" in the file
- H2GALINI.GAL.
-
- If you do not have a hard disk the next section tells you how to use the
- Galahad Distribution Disks to read H2START.GAL and/or H2TWODSK.GAL on your
- computer.
-
- If you have a hard disk you should create a new sub-directory and then
- copy Galahad Distribution Disk #1, #2 and #3 into it. (Typical MS-DOS command
- to make a sub-directory called GAL and the copy the disks would be: C> MD \GAL,
- and then C> COPY A:*.* \GAL for each of the three distribution disks in drive
- A:. This will copy all of Galahad onto the hard disk, except the documentation
- (Disk #4). So that all of the features of Galahad will work, you should also
- add the new sub-directory to the PATH. This is usually defined in the file
- AUTOEXEC.BAT. (A typical command in AUTOEXEC.BAT is: PATH=C:\BIN, you would
- add to that: PATH=C:\BIN;C:\GAL -- refer to the MS-DOS manual if this is not
- familiar).
-
- How to read a file:
-
- 1) Place the Galahad Distribution Disk #1 in drive A: of your computer,
- and Galahad Distribution Disk #2 in drive B:. If you have a hard disk and have
- followed the instructions above, Galahad has been installed, and you can read
- the information from the hard disk.
-
- 2) For floppy disks at the A:> prompt, enter: GAL2 B:H2START and press the
- Return (i.e, Enter) key.
- For a hard disk at the C:> prompt, enter two commands: CD \GAL (or what
- ever you named the sub-directory) and then GAL2 H2START and press the Return
- key. You can ignore the sections on making Galahad working disks and copying
- files to it, unless you also plan to use floppy disks.
-
- 3) Galahad will start up, load the file, and display the first page on the
- screen. Use the Up and Down Arrows, and the PageUp and PageDown keys to move
- through the file to read it. You will note some Galahad formatting command in
- the text, but they should not distract you too much from reading the text.
- After all, eventually you will want to know the formatting commands anyway.
-
- 4) If you are not very familiar with a computer you might want to read
- Chapter One first. You would do this as above, except enter: GAL2 GALCH1 and
- press the Return key.
-
- We hope you enjoy Galahad. It is in use at over 100 colleges and
- universities.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION DISKETTES
-
- Distribution Diskette #1: Galahad, Percival, Bedevere and Guenevere files.
- (The word processor, the editor, the word lookup
- processor, the off-line spelling checker.)
-
- Distribution Diskette #2: On-line spelling checker, Bedevere and Guenevere's
- lexicon, and three documentation files.
-
- Distribution Diskette #3: Lancelot I and Lancelot II files.
- (The off-line and on-line prose analysis
- processors).
-
- Distribution Diskette #4: Galahad documentation in compressed format.
-
-
-
- TECHNICAL NOTES and OTHER INFORMATION
-
-
- 1) To un-archive the Galahad documentation. Copy ZOO200.EXE from
- Distribution Disk #3 to a disk with at least 240K free. Then, enter: ZOO200.
- This will un-archive itself. You will now have the ZOO program (among others).
- To un-archive the documentation you will need about 550k of free bytes on a
- diskette or hard disk. If you do not have such space, then un-archive parts of
- the documentation. To un-archive all of it put ZOO.EXE and the documentation
- on a disk together, say A:, then to un-archive it to drive B: enter at the A>:
- ZOO -EXTRACT GALDOC.ZOO B:*.*. To un-archive part of it, enter: ZOO -EXTRACT
- GALDOC.ZOO B:GAL*.*. You may see the contents of GALDOC.ZOO by entering: ZOO
- -LIST GALDOC.ZOO.
-
- 2) As the Galahad Public License says, you may have the source code if
- you want it. Since it is not desired by very many, it is not distributed with
- this distribution, but you may obtain it from the address below for a handling
- charge of $10.
-
- 3) The file GALPC.EXE is not discussed in the documentation. It is the
- free standing text formatter. It is a filter. It take its input from standard
- input, and puts it out to standard output. To obtain some help enter: GALPC
- -h. It is useful for those who want to use their own editor. The source is
- available so that it can be compiled under BSD UNIX, and probably many others.
-
- 4) The files PS14.DEF and PS14LAND.DEF are required by a PostScript printer
- when you use a 14 inch paper tray.
-
- 5) The files PS_xxx.FNT are font metric files for the PostScript fonts.
- If you intend to use a PostScript printer they should be in the same
- sub-directory as GALAHAD.INI. It is not essential that they be used, but if
- present Galahad will do a better job of managing the PostScript output. Also,
- you only need to include those .GMF files of the fonts you intend to use. The
- GALAHAD.INI file as supplied assigns the following correspondence between the
- PostScript fonts and .S numbers.
-
- Font Number Galahad Usage Font Metric File Font Name
-
- 1 .st1,xx,yy PS_FNT1.GMF Times-Roman
- 2 .st2,xx,yy PS_FNT2.GMF Helvetica
- 3 .st3,xx,yy PS_FNT3.GMF Palatino
- 4 .st4,xx,yy PS_FNT4.GMF Schoolbook
- 5 .st5,xx,yy PS_FNT5.GMF Courier
- 6 .st6,xx,yy PS_FNT6.GMF Zapf
-
- PS_FNT0.GMF is use for the Symbol Font, accessed in Galahad with the &g
- and &h commands.
-
-
- Point of Contact
-
- The Galahad Collection is distributed by Clarkson University, Educational
- Computing, Potsdam, NY 13676. Telephone: (315) 268-6455.
-