Beta version of wxCLIPS 7/1/94
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This is a beta version of wxCLIPS, a simple development environment
for writing CLIPS programs. It includes a number of functions
to allow the construction of GUI elements, essentially a CLIPS
binding for the wxWindows GUI library. This is incomplete but
see the on-line and PostScript documentation for what's there
so far.

Installation
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To install wxCLIPS under Windows 3.1, do something like the following:

c:\> mkdir wxclips
c:\> cd wxclips
c:\wxclips> unzip -d a:wxclips.zip

The -d is important!!! It constructs a directory hierarchy.

Now put c:\wxclips\wxclips.exe in your Program Manager or whatever shell
you use. You should also have the help file wxclips.hlp accessible,

Samples
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There is a sample in the src directory called hello.clp. Use the
"File | Load definitions" menu command to load the file, and then
the "Application | Start application" menu command to run the demo.

There's also a sample called ddetest.clp which shows how to access
a DDE server (in this case the Program Manager).

Source notes
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To recompile wxCLIPS, you need wxWindows 1.5 which is in beta
(but fairly stable) in pub/wxwin/beta.

You also need my modified version of CLIPS 5.1 in pub/clips5.1.

There are Motif and Open Look versions of wxCLIPS for the Sun 4.

Anyone wanting more information can contact me.

Copyright issues
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CLIPS 5.1 may be distributed free of charge, according to NASA's
distributor Cosmic, since the copy can trace its origin back to Cosmic.

wxCLIPS and wxWindows are also free of charge, and of course do not
come with any guarantee at all, except the certainty of containing a few
bugs!

Good luck,

Julian Smart (Dr)

Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
J.Smart@ed.ac.uk
