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- This is a short file describing the installation of VLT.
-
- Other files you may want
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-
- VLT uses certain other files that are not distributed with VLT. None
- of these are absolutely required, but some features are not available
- if they are not there.
-
- 1. VLT will complain if it cannot find the external file transfer
- protocol library (XPR) that is currently selected. While it seems
- that XMODEM and Kermit are built in, they really are not. Despite
- the complaint, VLT will run fine anyway (but can't transfer files).
- It would be good to acquire the freely distributable XPR libraries
- of your choice. Currently, there exist ones for XMODEM, Kermit,
- ZMODEM, Jmodem, CompuServe Quick-B, and YMODEM. An ASCII XPR
- is included (xprascii.library).
-
- 2. The VLT "online docs" are in AmigaGuide. If you do not have
- AmigaGuide.library, you should install it on your system.
-
- 3. Some of the ARexx programs that come with VLT require that you
- have rexxarplib.library version *3.0* or later. Earlier versions
- of rexxarplib.library will not work correctly. Rexxarplib.library
- is available on BIX and on the anonymous FTP site
- ftp.slac.stanford.edu, as well as various online services
- and BBS's.
-
- 4. If you intend to play with FifoBBS.rexx and similar Fifo: based
- utilities, you must install the Fifo: handler by Matt Dillon.
- Not needed for normal operation.
-
- 5. There are lots of nice VLT scripts that you may be interested in,
- written by others. Some implement phone books (see however also
- the one included with this distribution), others, automated
- up/download facilities for on-line services.
-
-
- Installation: First time users (but upgraders, read anyway!)
- ------------------------------------------------------------
-
- If this is the first time you have downloaded VLT, then the installation
- is very simple.
-
- 1. You have already extracted all files from this archive. You should
- have done this using the command:
-
- lha -x -a x vltj5867.lha
-
- or
-
- lha -x -a x vlt5p867.lha
-
- depending on whether you obtained VLTjr or VLT.
-
- If you did not do it that way, please start over. It is important
- to create all subdirectories, and also the -a part is necessary.
-
- 2. Now that you have extracted all files, you should see, from the
- Workbench, a drawer called VLT. Drag this drawer to the place where
- you want VLT to live.
-
- If you want to install VLT on a floppy, consult the printed manual
- (see vlt/docs/VLT.guide for how to obtain it). You will have to
- delete a lot of files on a Workbench floppy to make room for VLT.
-
- 3. You are now essentially done. (See however the section on other
- files VLT needs, above). If you want to make VLT resident, see
- also point 4.
-
- When you open the VLT drawer, you will see the VLT icon, and also a VLT
- script icon. Double click on VLT to start it, or double click on the
- VLT script icon to see how that goes.
-
- Next, note the "Help" item in the VLT main menu. It will open (if you
- have AmigaGuide.library) the VLT on-line documentation.
-
- Note, that most files that come with this archive do not have icons.
- If you select "show all files" you can browse around and see what else
- there is. Of special interest is the docs drawer, which has the
- previously mentioned VLT AmigaGuide documentation. This guide
- assumes that you have the manual for the previous version of VLT,
- which can be obtained free of charge from SLAC. See the guide for
- details. Each subdirectory has a brief readme file explaining what
- all the files in that subdirectory are for.
-
- 4. If you intend to make VLT resident, then you must assign vlt: to the
- directory that contains VLT. I.e., if you copied the VLT drawer to
- your work: partition, then you must assign VLT: to work:VLT. Add the
- line:
-
- assign VLT: work:VLT
-
- to your startup sequence.
-
- 5. If you run from a shell a lot, you probably want to add a path to the
- directory that VLT lives in. Add the line:
-
- path add work:VLT
-
- to your startup sequence, if that's where VLT's executable is.
-
-
- Upgrading from VLT version 5.576
- --------------------------------
-
- If you are upgrading from VLT version 5.576, then the installation is
- also very easy. That is, if you installed VLT 5.576 in a directory all
- by itself, as recommended. If you did not, then skip to the section
- on upgrades from older versions of VLT. Again, for floppy installation,
- see the printed manual.
-
- 1. Rename your current VLT drawer to "oldVLT"
-
- 2. Execute step 1 above.
-
- 3. Now that you have extracted all files, you should see, from the
- Workbench, a drawer called VLT. Drag this drawer to the place where
- your old VLT drawer used to live.
-
- If you changed any of the files that came with the previous version
- of VLT, copy them from the oldVLT drawer to the corresponding place
- in the VLT drawer. This likely includes the files VTPrefs.dat and
- in the case of the full VLT, TekPrefs.dat in the s drawer.
-
- 4. Now execute steps 3, 4 and 5 above as necessary.
-
- 5. You can now delete the oldVLT drawer, unless you want to keep it for
- a while as a backup.
-
-
- Upgrades to older versions of VLT
- ---------------------------------
-
- If you're upgrading from an older version of VLT you have to make a
- decision first. You can either install VLT in a directory somewhere,
- with all the files it needs, or you can install VLT like you
- installed the previous versions. If you want to take the easy way
- out, just install it the way you installed it previously (i.e., devs
- files go to devs:, libs files to libs:, s files to s: etc.). Note
- that in that case you want to combine the scp files and rexx files
- all into rexx:. The docs files should go into the same drawer as the
- VLT executable.
-
- Alternatively, you can take the opportunity to clean up your system
- some. In principle the installation then is similar to the way
- described above for new users, but you probably have lots of files of
- your own that you want to copy to subdirectories in the new VLT
- directory. But you have to be careful to not overwrite the new files
- that came with VLT with the old ones you already had - unless you
- made modifications and want to keep your own version.
-
- Here's a possible installation sequence:
-
- 1. Unpack the VLT archive as described above.
-
- 2. Make a directory called, say, work:vltnew . Also make directories
- work:vltnew/rexx and work:vltnew/scp .
-
- 3. copy rexx:*.vlt work:vltnew/rexx
- copy rexx:*.scp work:vltnew/scp
-
- Also copy all other VLT-related rexx files to work:vltnew/rexx .
-
- 4. From the Workbench, drag the VLT drawer that was created when you
- unpacked the archive, to work:. You should now have a VLT and a
- VLTnew drawer on work:.
-
- 5. From the CLI, do:
-
- copy work:VLT work:VLTnew all
-
- 6. Now delete work:VLT as follows:
-
- delete work:VLT all
-
- 7. Now rename VLTnew to VLT:
-
- rename work:VLTnew work:VLT
-
- 8. Now copy the configuration files:
-
- copy s:VTPrefs.dat work:VLT/s
- copy s:TekPrefs.dat work:VLT/s
-
- If you made changes to s:TekProlog.ps, make the same changes again to
- work:VLT/s/TekProlog.ps.
- Delete these files from s:.
-
- 9. Copy all the XPR libraries you have, if you wish, to work:VLT/libs .
- Then delete these files from libs:.
- If you have other programs that need access to the XPR libraries,
- it is probably better to leave them in libs:
- However, you can now delete from libs: the following libraries:
- review.library, strokefont.library, duplexfont.library and
- simplexfont.library.
-
- 10. If you wish, you can now delete all VLT specific fonts from fonts: .
- delete fonts:vlt* all
-
- 11. If you intend to make VLT resident, make a VLT: assignment, as in
- the "new user" case. If you run from a shell a lot, add the
- directory VLT lives in to your path (see new user installation points
- 4 and 5).
-
- 12. If you find that VLT in certain cases can't find certain files, read
- the section about "path searches" in the manual carefully. You
- can almost always make VLT: find files by making some more
- assignments, or by consolidating files in certain directories, or
- by eliminating directories you're not actually using that VLT finds
- anyway. If you don't have the printed manual yet, this information
- is also in the VLT5p576.doc file.
-
- This completes the VLT installation.
-
- Willy Langeveld, April 1994.
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