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This diskette (DL) contains Version 8.1 of the Icon program library
for MS-DOS and OS/2.
Unloading Files:
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Most files are in LZH format. The procedures that follow assume
a dearchiving program is on your search path. There is a copy of LHARC.EXE
this diskette; if you do not already have it, get it from that diskette
before proceeding.
The Icon program library is designed to be unloaded in a hierarchy. Go
to where you want this hierarchy to be (for example \ICON). UNLOAD.BAT
on this diskette is an (MS-DOS) script for unloading the files.
If this diskette is in drive A, use
A:UNLOAD A:
Note that the device is an argument. This batch file creates the necessary
subdirectories and unloads the files into them.
After the diskette is unloaded, if the hierarchy is rooted in ICON, the result
should be
|-DATA-------
|-IDOL-------
|-ICON----------|-IPL-----|-PROCS------
|-PROGS------
See "The Icon Program Libary", which is included with the distribution and
also is on this diskette in printable form (IPD172-7.DOC), for an explanation of
these directories. For example, you do not have to arrange the directories in
the manner shown above.
Once you have unloaded the files, you can proceed to build the library.
Before you do this, you need to decide whether to build the entire
library or only part of it. The entire library takes a lot of space
and contains some programs that have specific requirements, such as
a particular operating system. If you have plenty of disk space, the
easiest thing to do is to build the entire library and ignore or delete
parts you don't need. If you don't have a lot of disk space, you may
wish to look through the programs and select only those you think you'll
need.
The instructions that follow are for building the entire library. If you
only want to build part, look at the batch files mentioned for guidance.
First translate the procedures in PROCS using the (MS-DOS) batch script
TRANS.BAT placed in that directory during unloading.
Once that is done, you must set the environment variable IPATH to the
location of the directory PROCS. For example,
SET IPATH=C:\ICON\IPL\PROCS
You may wish to add a line like this to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that
you can access the translated procedures in other programs.
Next go to the PROGS directory and compile the programs there using
the (MS-DOS) batch script COMP.BAT.
To install Idol, see the documentation that directory.