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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Mercury access?
Date: 28 Mar 1997 06:15:19 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
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Richard de Rozario <rdr@enternet.com.au> writes:

>Is it possible to have a play with Mercury on an Win95 platform? 

Yes, there is a beta-test version for Windows 95/NT; a binary
distribution of this is available at

	ftp://turiel.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/mercury-0.6.2.i386-windows.tar.gz

(The corresponding source code is at

	ftp://turiel.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/beta-releases/mercury-0.6.2.tar.gz

but the binary distribution is a lot easier to install.)

As is explained in the README.MS-Windows file contained in the distribution,
to use that release, you need to first install GNU-win32, available via

	http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/

At this stage, GNU-win32 is still fairly buggy, and although we've put
in quite a bit of work making sure we step around those bugs, the Linux
version of Mercury has had quite a bit more testing than the the
Windows version.  Of course, this situation will change only if people
like you do actually have a play with Mercury on Windows, and report
any problems that you find.

I've appended below a patch that fixes one recently-reported
Windows-specific problem with the above-mentioned 0.6.2 release.
This fixes a problem if you don't have `cmp.exe' and `mv.exe' binaries
in /bin.

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diff -u -r1.3 scripts/mercury_update_interface.in
--- mercury_update_interface.in	1996/09/11 08:58:17	1.3
+++ mercury_update_interface.in	1997/03/18 15:49:05
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
 #
 # Enviroment variables: none.
 
-PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
-
 verbose=false
 
 if [ $# -ge 1 ] && [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then

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