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From: petera@utcsri.UUCP (Smith)
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Subject: PC-LISP PACKAGE (article 1 of 13)
Message-ID: <2660@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 14:49:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 27 14:49:51 1986
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	Ok, Here are the instructions for getting PC-LISP off the net
and onto your MS-DOS machine. The entire package consists of 13 parts.
These are:

	#1 - The instructions (this article)
	#2..5 - PC-LISP.EXE uuencoded
        #6..7 - PC-LISP.DOC ascii  
        #8..13 - individual example .L load files.

	Please follow these steps carefully otherwise you are guaranteed
that the executable will not work.

 1) Save articles 2..5 as uuu1,uuu2,uuu3 and uuu4 respectively.

 2) Save articles 6 and 7 as doc1 and doc2 respectively.

 3) Save the remaining articles as pc-lisp.l, turtle.l, dragon.l,
    queens.l, hanoi.l and match.l respectively.

 4) vi uuu1 uuu2 uuu3 uuu4 doc1 doc2 and remove everything
    at the top of the file up to & including the ---- CUT HERE ---- line
    being careful not to remove anything else! Check the bottom of files
    uu1,uu2 and uu3 to make sure there are NO blank lines past the last
    data ie M.....stuff..... line.

 5) cat uuu1 uuu2 uuu3 uuu4 > uuu 
 6) cat doc1 doc2 > pc-lisp.doc
 8) rm uuu1 uuu2 uuu3 uuu4 doc1 doc2

 9) If you are doing the uudecoding on the host machine then do
       uudecode uuu
       (you should now have a file called pc-lisp.exe of size 139086 bytes)
       download the file pc-lisp.exe to your ms-dos machine using
       a B I N A R Y mode transfer protocol. 
    otherwise
       download the file uuu to your ms-dos machine using a T E X T  
       mode file transfer protocol.
       Use your BASIC or C uudecode program to uudecode the file. You
       should then have pc-lisp.exe of size approximatly 139086, but 
       it may be up to 8K larger depending on the cluster size of your
       hard/floppy disk.

10) Download the file pc-lisp.doc and all other .l files to your
    ms-dos machine using a T E X T mode file protocol.

11) Place pc-lisp.exe and all the .L files in the same directory of
    your ms-dos machine. Type pc-lisp at the dos prompt and wait for
    the messages :

	PC-LISP (V2.10) ShareWare, April 1986 by Peter Ashwood-Smith
	PC-LISP up with xxxyyy bytes free, xx% Alpha, yy% Heap.
	--- [pc-lisp.l loaded] ---
        -->
     
    These may take a little while because the program is large and takes
    a couple of seconds to load, then depending on how much memory you
    have initialization takes a few more seconds, finally loading the
    file pc-lisp.l takes a few seconds also. Be patient.

If PC-LISP.EXE does not execute then please reread the above instructions
carefully. Did you put together the uuu1 ... uuu4 files in the correct order?
Did you cut out the top lines from uuu1....uuu4 but no extra data lines? Are
there any extra blank or other lines at the end of any of these files? DID
YOU USE THE CORRECT TRANSFER PROTOCOL FROM THE HOST TO YOUR PC? YOU MUST USE
BINARY MODE  FOR PC-LISP.EXE OR TEXT MODE FOR UUU. Is the PC-LISP.EXE file
of size 139086 (on the vax, ms-dos size will vary by up to 8K due to cluster
sizes ie minimum file size). Do you have enough memory on you ms-dos machine
to run PC-LISP? you need 256K or more. What version of DOS are you running?
I have only tried it on MS-DOS 2.0 and later so 1.0 may not work, I do not
know for sure. If all else fails then you can send me a blank diskette and
I will put the PC-LISP package on it for you. This should not be necessary
as I have made sure that all files are less than 64K and have uploaded and
downloaded the binary myself to make sure all is ok. Please do not send
me mail asking me to email the package to you, it is much too much trouble
to mail this thing to 500 people who did not get it, rather send me mail
saying that your site did not receive it intact or whatever and when
there is enough interest I will repost the bad parts etc.

       Good luck and let me know if you have
	   any comments, good or bad.

		Peter Ashwood-Smith,
		University of Toronto.