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- README: WAIS Unix X UI release 8 b5 Sun May 10 1992
- Jonathan Goldman Thinking Machines Corp
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-
- WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
-
- This software was created by Thinking Machines Corporation and is
- distributed free of charge. It is placed in the public domain and
- permission is granted to anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute
- it provided that this notice is attached.
-
- Thinking Machines Corporation provides absolutely NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
- with respect to this software. The entire risk as to the quality and
- performance of this software is with the user. IN NO EVENT WILL THINKING
- MACHINES CORPORATION BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT THE
- USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
- LOST DATA OR LOST PROFITS, OR FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
- DAMAGES.
-
- This release of the X WAIS Station provides two executables: xwais and
- xwaisq. The first, xwais, is a simple shell that "wraps around" xwaisq,
- the real workhorse of the system.
-
- To get an idea how to run use this application, look at the file XwaisHELP.
-
- There are four critical resources the user can specify to change the
- default directories the application uses. They are the questionDirectory,
- userSourceDirectory, commonSourceDirectory and documentDirectory resources.
- This is where the application will attempt to find the initial questions
- and sources, and where the application will store documents. Set this
- according to your personal directories. It is also important that the
- helpFile resources be set to the path where the X sources are.
-
- The default values will probably work for most people. The application
- does know how to expand ~/ (so long as the environment variable HOME is
- set), but does not know about other user directories.
-
- Notes on building these applications:
-
- This release attempts to build using an Imakefile. If X is installed on
- your machine, and you have write access to the X binary and
- application-default directories, the X distribution should be easy to
- build. Use xmkmf to create a locally consistant Makefile, then type "make
- install" to do it all.
-
- If this doesn't work, you can use my old example makefile, called
- My-Makefile. Use "make -f My-Makefile". If it doesn't work "out of the
- box" take a look at it for some pointers on how to actually build xwais and
- xwaisq. If your site does not use the "usual" directories for X
- (/usr/include/X, /usr/lib/X11, or /usr/local/lib) you should modify the
- CFLAGS and LFLAGS to point at the places your X distribution actaully uses.
- You might have to find a system-administrator to assist you at installing
- the application and its default resources (Xwais).
-
- Take a look at the file Xwais to make sure the commonSourceDirectory and
- helpfile resources are the correct pathnames for you site. I've attempted
- to do this automatically, but it may not always work.
-
- Finally, I've included shell scripts in the bin directory of this
- distribution that will set the XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to this directory, so
- you need not install the app-defaults. When you verify that everything is
- set correctly, you may want to do `make install` to install the binaries
- and app-defaults at your site.
-
- A note about the viewers (Xwais.filters resource): The default viewers
- with this release require the pbm utilities (part of contrib in the MIT X11
- release).
-