Current Release Date: 30 October 1995 The Allegro CL 3.0 Web Version for Windows is a fully functional, and free version of our Dynamic Object Oriented Programming Development System for ANSI standard CLOS, with some limitations*. We sell a supported version of this software, Allegro CL for Windows, without these limitations. Please contact us at: Telephone: (510) 548-3600 FAX: (510) 548-8253 U.S.: (800) 3 CLOS NOW E-mail: info@franz.com Web page: http://www.franz.com/ We welcome suggestions you have, or problems you find, but we may not get back to you since this software is unsupported. Please send your input to us here ar web@franz.com. Enjoy the power of CLOS! *The limitations are: A limited heap size, no foreign function support, no compile-file, no disassembler, and no image saving (save-image). The documentation fully explains these capabilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation Prerequisites: For best performance, we recommend your machine have least 16 MB of memory and at least 20 MB of swap space. Installation Instructions: (1) Please read the file license.txt for the legal details on how this software is to be used. This license.txt file is available in ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/franz/aclwin/web/license.txt as well as in the top level of the AclWin distribution directory after installation. This file is also shown as part of the "About Allegro CL" display (available by clicking the "Help" menu in Allegro CL 3.0). (2) Download via ftp the file "ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/franz/aclwin/web/acl3wr.exe". This file is a little over 4 MB, so the download may take some time. (3) In an empty directory, run the acl3wr.exe program. This program is actually a self-extracting archive. When completed, approximately 200 files will be placed into the directory where you ran the acl3wr.exe program. The total size of the extracted files is about 4.7 MB. After extracting the files, the acl3wr.exe file will no longer be needed and can be removed if you are low on disk space. (4) One of the newly created files from the archive is called "setup.exe". Running that file as a program will launch the Allegro CL installation. This procedure will ask you for a directory to store the installed distribution. C:\Allegro is the recommended name, but you can choose any location. Approximately 10 MB will be stored in this directory. (5) After installation, you can remove acl3wr.exe (downloaded in step (2)), and all the files extracted from the archive (from step (3)). Win32s If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11, you will need to install (or already have running) Microsoft Win32s 1.30 before you can run AclWin. Win32s allows Win32 applications to run under Windows 3.1. Win32s is not required (and cannot even be installed) under Windows 95 or Windows NT. If you are unsure whether you are already running the correct win32s version, there is no harm in attempting a new win32s installation. The win32s installation procedure does a version check on the installed win32s (if any) and proceeds only if there is no already installed win32s or the already installed win32s is out of date. To manually check the win32s version number, you can look at the "[Win32s] Version=" field in the system\win32s.ini file in your Windows directory. If no such win32s.ini file exists, then you will need to install win32s. A copy of Win32s is available as "ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/franz/aclwin/web/w32s130.exe". Like the AclWin distribution, this file is distributed as a self-extracting archive containing a "setup" program needed to perform the installation. As with the AclWin installation, both the original archive and the extracted files can be deleted after Win32s is installed. Notes The Web version of AclWin is unsupported. However, we are very interested in improving this software and its installation procedures. Please feel free to send any comments, suggestions, or problems you may find to web@franz.com. Allegro CL is a registered trademark of Franz Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.