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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:58:52 MST
Message-Id: <199604131959.NAA33816@huey.cadvision.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 13:54:37 EDT
From: midtoad@cadvision.com (Stewart Midwinter)
Reply-To: midtoad@cadvision.com (Stewart Midwinter)
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Cc: kjs@thelair.zynet.com
X-Mailer: Stewart Midwinter's PMMail v1.1
Subject: Re: Icon without icons
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
On 12 Apr 1996 22:16:06 -0600 you wrote:
> I just want Icon for text
>processing, something it's phenomenally good at.
>But it won't run without Xpm.
>
>I read the FAQ again. Apparently, I'm the first person ever to have
>this problem.
>
>Am I on my own? Need I sort through the source to figure out how to
>compile an Icon without icons or buttons? Or is there someone else
>out there who has done the same thing as I?
>
>I'm *capable* of sorting through source, but it's really something I'd
>prefer not to have to do. I expect it will take a few hours, with my
>poor code-reading skills. (I often get lost reading others' code; I
>have a hard time understanding the grand scheme of things. Maybe this
>has to do with the poor quality of the code I've been reading,
>though.)
>
>I'd expect this to be a FAQ. But the newsgroup doesn't get much
>traffic. Maybe I should join the mailing list.
>
>But geez, I don't even expect to write any Icon code! I just want to
>USE the sucker.
>
>Alas.
>--
>Peace
>Kragen
>
>
Kragen:
Maybe even a beginner like I can help you out. You didn't mention
what platform or OS you're wanting to install Icon on, but at least in
the DOS/OS2/Windows world you don't need XPM to run Icon. Heck, I
don't even know what it is!
Also, I didn't have to compile anything in order to get Icon to run.
I just downloaded the executables (go to
ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/icon/packages/msdos, and get de.lzh, or the
386 version, de386.lzh), the library (from /icon/library/bipl.lzh and
..info.lzh), installed them and away we went ... in 1st gear, full
low.
Now, once you have all installed, you can run ucode.bat to convert all
your procedures to u_code, bat that's not the same as compiling...
More questions? Let me know.
Cheers,
-----------------
Stewart Midwinter
running under OS/2 Warp and PMMail.