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- This diskette (DL) contains Version 8 of the Icon program library
- for MS-DOS and OS/2.
-
- Unloading Files:
- ----------------
- Most files are in ARC format. The procedures that follow assume
- a dearchiving program is on your search path. There is a copy of PKXARC.COM
- 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 unload the files into them.
- After the diskette is unloaded, if the hierarchy is
- rooted in ICON, the result should be
-
- |-DATA-------
- |-ICON----------|-IPL-----|-PROCS------
- |-PROGS------
-
- See "The Icon Program Libary", which is included with the distribution and
- also is on this diskette in printable form (TR90-7.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.
- 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.
-
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-
- In addition to the Icon program library proper, the distribution diskette
- contains Idol, an object-oriented version of Icon written in Icon. To
- install Icol, unload IDOL.ARC and see the documentation there.
-