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From: se@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Steve Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: icon on a PC
Message-ID: <891@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Mar 90 15:58:20 GMT
Reply-To: se@dcl-cs.UUCP (Steve Elliott)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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I recently helped to install Icon on the University's Sequent Symmetry S81
and then put on some workshops to 'educate the masses'.
I'm now being inundated with questions from people who were so impressed
they got a copy to run on their PCs. They're now coming to me with questions
about the implementation that I cannot answer. Anyone care to help?

1) Is there a PC version of icon which creates an executable file
   instead of having to run the ICONCX program every time?

2) Text files which I want to process using icon involve home-made
   fonts created in Pascal. What is the possibility of processing such
   fonts in icon?

3) I keep getting an error message 'inadequate space in block region'.
   Is there an environment variable that can be set to stop this? This 
   happens with long files.

Thanks in advance for any light shed on these problems.

Steve



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