I have just installed in the FreePoplog directory a first draft package,
mainly intended to go on a CD for our students, but possibly also useful
elsewhere and I'd welcome testers.
If you want the sort of installation we have at Birmingham it provides
a much simpler installation procedure than previously.
The whole thing (including linux poplog V15.53 with full system sources,
and the PC Windows 95/98/NT poplog) is in a 34 Mbyte tar file in
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/popcdtar
or
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/popcdtar
This contains the following
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 45921 Sep 19 18:54 1999 INSTALL.TXT
-rwxr-xr-x 1807/70 2842 Sep 20 00:01 1999 INSTALL_LIKE_BHAM
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 5452 Sep 20 10:05 1999 README
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1268879 Sep 19 19:16 1999 bhamteach.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 2107139 Apr 25 23:00 1999 contrib.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 74025 Sep 17 03:12 1999 emacs.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 13300 Sep 20 10:03 1999 image-scripts.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1807/70 402 Sep 20 09:32 1999 install_package
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 13588944 Sep 19 19:26 1999 linux1553.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 24601 Sep 20 00:05 1999 man.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1807/70 323 Sep 17 13:45 1999 mktarfile
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 558467 Sep 19 19:14 1999 newkit.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 19396 Jul 17 21:11 1999 pattern.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 12333463 Jul 28 21:48 1999 pcwin-15.5.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/90 7462 Jul 18 17:46 1999 pcwinpoplog.readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 3856 Jul 28 21:43 1999 pcwinpoplog.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 484918 Sep 19 18:57 1999 pophtmlprimer.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 2629025 Sep 19 18:57 1999 popvision.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 540941 Sep 19 19:14 1999 rc.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 142873 Sep 19 19:13 1999 rcmenu.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 32415 Jul 29 09:32 1999 userfiles.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 101637 Sep 19 18:58 1999 ved_latex.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 52558 Aug 30 16:29 1999 vedgn.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 80033 Aug 30 16:30 1999 vedmail.tar.gz
Follow the instructions in the README file to install poplog, using
the script
INSTALL_LIKE_BHAM
This automatically unpacks the linux Poplog tar file and a number of
our local extensions on a typical linux system, in /usr/local/poplog
and /usr/local/poplog/local for the extensions.
In the $poplocal/local directory (/usr/local/poplog/local) it will
install rclib rcmenu bhamteach and newkit (poprulebase and sim_agent)
from the tar files, and will build a couple of new saved images in
$poplocalbin which can be run as
pop11 +bham
or
pop11 +bhamxved
In either of these all our X graphical extensions are available (or
autoloadable), so that for instance the Ved command (in XVed or ordinary
Ved)
ENTER menu
will produce a control panel from which you can invoke help files or
other control panels. The control panels can also be invoked directly,
and it's nice not to be forced to run XVed to have X support in Ved
(e.g. if you don't like multiple windows). This partly compensates for
the lack of motif facilities in Xved (no menu buttons or scroll bars).
E.g.
ENTER menu compiling
will produce the compiling control panel, one of whose buttons will
launch the pop-11 or lisp file browser announced previously.
Creating new control panels for teaching or for interfacing to tools etc
is very easy: copy and edit stuff in the autoloadable menus file
$poplocal/local/rcmenu/menus/
Things not installed automatically by
INSTALL_LIKE_BHAM
can be installed using the install_package script, e.g. "
install_package popvision
if you want David Young's superb Sussex popvision library (about 6
Mbytes, including sample image files, and neural net tutor.)
I included the PC Windows version of poplog in the tar file in case some
people want to have available on a dual-boot machine, or because some of
our students might want to use it because they can't install linux. It
doesn't support the Poplog graphics facilities, and apparently some of
the system utilities don't work except under NT, e.g. timer facilities.
It includes pop-11, common lisp, prolog and ML, all of which basically
work well enough for teaching without graphics.
If any of you fetch it and try it out on your machine, let me know how
it goes. I have tried it on a machine running redhat 6.0 connected to
our unix network and it seems to work. The main installation script
could be tidied up and made more elegant, but I have been too busy.
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Aaron
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School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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