FunnelWeb Installation

This chapter describes how to obtain, compile, and install FunnelWeb. You will need:

• FTP access to the internet or a FunnelWeb distribution kit on disk.

• A Sun, VMS VAX, Macintosh, or PC or lots of extra time to port FunnelWeb to a new platform.

• About four megabytes of free disk space. You might be able to install it with less, but four megabytes is safe. The distribution kit itself is about two and a half megabytes. If you are short on space, you can throw away everything after installation except the binary executable which will consume about half a megabyte.

• A C compiler.

• An acquaintance with the C programming language and the ability to compile and link C programs on your machine.

• Elementary systems programming knowledege for your machine.

• About an hour.

You will not need any sort of system privileges to install FunnelWeb, unless you want the FunnelWeb command fw to be automatically available to everyone on your machine as well as yourself.

• Obtaining a Copy of FunnelWeb
• Establishing The Directory Tree
  • Admin Directory
  • Answers Directory
  • Hackman Directory
  • Results Directory
  • Scripts Directory
  • Sources Directory
  • Tests Directory
  • Userman Directory
  
  
• Compiling FunnelWeb
• Testing FunnelWeb
• Installing FunnelWeb
• Printing Manuals
• Installation Problems?