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Date:Mon Aug 6 13:21:26 2000 
Subject:Newly packaged PC Win9x/NT Poplog 
From:Aaron Sloman see text for reply 
Volume-ID:1000806.01 

Until recently the PC Windows/NT version of Poplog was available only as
a gzipped tar file. Several people had problems with this, so I've tried
the experiment of unpacking it and putting it in a zip file, and I have
now been told by a PC user (which I am not) that this works.

All versions of Poplog, along with various extensions, toolkits,
AI teaching materials, etc. are accessible via this overview file
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
or
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/freepoplog.html

The licence for Poplog, including sources, is modelled on XFree86
licence (by courtesy of Sussex University and ISL).

The newly packaged zip file version of poplog for windows/NT is
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/new/pcwin15.5.zip

or, using FTP:
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/new/pcwin15.5.zip

The size is about 12.3 Mbytes, excluding core system sources, but
including a lot of documentation and libraries, including sources for
the poplog incremental compilers for prolog, common lisp and ML.

Note that this PC version does not include support for graphics, unlike
the unix/linux/solaris versions. It is also an older version: V15.50,
unlike the current V15.53 for other platforms.

But I believe it is still usable for serious work, teaching etc., using
Pop-11, Prolog, Lisp or ML. The non-graphical parts of the sim_agent
toolkit should work on PCwin poplog, for instance, though I have not
tried that.

The above zip file does not include full system sources, which are
accessible in this file

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/new/pcwnt-sources.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/new/pcwnt-sources.tar.gz

These are V15.53 sources, tarred from the full multi-platform source
tree
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/src/master/

which includes everything except binaries and saved images, and
therefore overlaps with the above .zip file.

Note that you need a running poplog system to build a system from the
sources, as most of the core system is written in pop-11. Further
information about porting and rebuilding can be found here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc/

If anyone finds a way to add graphical facilities to the PC/Win/NT
version of poplog, please consider donating your work to the free
poplog site.

Further information is at
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/poplog.info.html

and a primer of Pop-11, the core poplog language used to implement all
the incremental compilers is here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/primer/

Questions to comp.lang.pop please.

Thanks.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
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