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- Getting Started with Atari Icon
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- The distribution diskette contains executable files for Icon,
- a few sample Icon programs with data to get started, and Icon
- documentation in printable form. It also contains the ASH
- public-domain shell for running Icon and a copy of the public-
- domain archiving program, ARC.
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- Before you do anything else, make a copy of the Atari Icon
- diskette. If you have a hard disk, you may wish to copy the
- files on the Atari Icon diskette to a folder on your hard disk.
- If you run Atari Icon from a diskette, it cannot be write-
- protected, since Icon creates files when it is run.
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- To get started, open the folder that contains the Atari Icon
- files and double click on ASH.PRG. You are now be running in a
- shell that accepts typed commands. You may now dearchive the
- various files that comprise the Icon distribution. For example,
- to extract the Icon executable binary files, icont.prg and iconx.prg, do
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- arc x icon.arc
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- and to get the sample programs do
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- arc x samples.arc
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- Now try out Icon by typing
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- icont hello
- iconx hello
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- You should see something like this from iconx:
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- Hello!
- Icon Version 8.0, March 25, 1990
- Atari TOS (LMM/FR) Lattice 68000 C Version 3.04.02
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- Assuming that Atari Icon is working, you should now read the
- documentation that comes with the diskette, if you have not
- already done so.
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- If you have problems you cannot resolve after reading the
- documentation, contact:
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- Icon Project
- Department of Computer Science
- Gould-Simpson Building
- The University of Arizona
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- (602) 621-2018
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