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Hamilton C shell(tm) Installation 2.1 for Windows NT
Copyright (c) 1988-1993 by Hamilton Laboratories. All rights reserved.
This file describes how to install Hamilton C shell on Windows NT(tm).
If you have problems, please contact us for help. We can be reached as
follows:
phone: 508-358-5715 FAX: 508-358-1113
BIX Network: hamilton MCI Mail: 389-0321
Telex: 6503890321 Internet: 3890321@mcimail.com
CIS: 70034,2025
When you've finished the installation, please mail in or FAX the registration
form. This lets us know who you are so we can send updates and your feedback
helps us to better meet your needs in the future.
Please refer to the file readme.too for additional release notes.
System Requirements:
Installation requires a 386-, 486- or Pentium-based machine running Windows NT
build 404 (March Beta) or later. Roughly 2 MB of disk space is used.
Basic Installation:
1. Copy the contents of the bin and samples directories onto your hard
disk, putting them anywhere you like. (Notice that the bin directory
is too big to fit on one diskette; you have to merge the two halves.)
2. Copy the login.csh and startup.csh files into any directory you care
to designate as your "home" directory. The significance of a home
directory is principally that it will be convenient to specify
pathnames relative to this directory.
3. Edit the login.csh and startup.csh files, customizing them to meet
your needs. The login.csh file has a lot of comments in it which
can take the shell a second or more to read each time it starts up;
you'll almost certainly want to delete some of these comments once
you've read them so the shell will start up faster.
4. Edit the environment variables by opening the Control Panel and then,
within that, opening the system icon.
To define a variable through the Control Panel, type the variable name
in the "Variable:" fill-in box, the value in the "Value:" box and
click on the "Set" button.
a. Create or edit your entry for the Path variable, adding the full
pathnames for the C shell's bin and samples directories to the list.
b. Create an entry for the HOME environment variable, setting its value
as the full pathname of the directory where you placed login.csh and
startup.csh.
c. You may also want to include definitions for TABS and COLORS. The
shell and all the utilities look for TABS to see if you want them
to display text with tabs expanded out to something other than the
default of every 8 characters.
By default, the C shell displays white characters on a black
background. The COLORS variable lets you choose a combination from
this set: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta (or blue red),
cyan (or blue green) and white. Foreground collows may also be
bright, dim, blink or reverse. The keyword "on" introduces
background colors. (Blink only causes true blinking full-screen;
in a text window, it just makes the background brighter. Also,
yellow is a true yellow only if it's bright. These are system
limitations not related to the C shell.)
Other color settings you might want to specify now or at some later
time through the Control Panel are MOREPROMPT, MOREFILLIN and
MOREERROR (for customizing the more utility's command line) and
DELETIONS and ADDITIONS (for customizing the diff utility).
For more information on setting screen colors, please refer to the
the colors.csh file in the samples directory or to the Customization
chapter in the User Manual.
Here's an example of the settings you might specify:
HOME=d:\doug
PATH=d:\hamilton\bin;d:\hamilton\samples
COLORS=white on blue
TABS=3
ADDITIONS=bright white on green
DELETIONS=bright white on red
MOREPROMPT=red on white
MOREFILLIN=black
MOREERROR=bright white on red
5. Add csh.exe with the title "Hamilton C shell" to the Program Manager.
To do this, pull-down "File" and select "New". A pop-up will appear
asking that you confirm this will be a new Program Item. On the next
pop-up, fill in:
Description: Hamilton C shell
Command Line: ....as appropriate....\csh.exe -L
The "-L" part tells csh.exe when it starts up that it's a "login"
shell, which means it should look for a login.csh file. (Refer to
the User Guide for additional information on other options.)
6. Logout of your Windows session and then log back in to cause all the new
settings to take effect.
The files on this diskette are licensed material, property of Hamilton
Laboratories, Wayland, Massachusetts.
Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporaton. Hamilton C shell is
a trademark of Hamilton Laboratories.