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To install curlew, the following steps are recommended:

1)   Curlew  is  distributed  as  25 files that should be concatenated
     then fed through the bourne shell or the program unshar.  If  you
     have not already done this, then this the first of these files.

2)   Find  out  how  to link a pascal main program with C subroutines.
     Modify the line beginning SEDSTRING in the makefile so  that  the
     include   files   containing   external  definitions  are  edited
     correctly for your system.  Curlew is distributed for BSD pascal,
     with external definitions flagged with the directive  "external;"
     rather  like  a  forward  declaration,  and taken from a separate
     header file.

     Other  examples  have  been  a Whitechappel MG1, which needed the
     keyword  "IMPORT"  before  the  word  procedure,  and  an  Encore
     Multimax   that   used  the  directive  "nonpascal;"  instead  of
     "external;".  The Whitechappel also required  the  source  to  be
     passed  through  the  C  preprocessor,  as it is unable to handle
     include directives.  For these systems the line in  the  makefile
     was as follows:-

     For Whitechappel:
     SEDSTRING = -e "s/external;//" -e "s/procedure/IMPORT procedure/"

     For Mutlimax:
     SEDSTRING = "s/external;/nonpascal;/"

3)   Also make the following alterations to the makefile as needed.

     HELP Set  up the directory for curlew's help file.  The file name
          will be "curlew.help" in this directory.

     SEDSTRING
          See above.

     PCFLAGS
          This string is passed to the pascal compiler as an argument.
          when compiling a single .p file to a .o file.

     LINKFLAGS
          This  string  is  given  to the program used to link edit .o
          files (typically either cc or pc - see below).

     LIBS This string specifies the subroutine libraries to be linked,
          if  these  are  needed  on  the  command  line.  For a local
          version (see LOCAL/REMOTE below), this must also include the
          termcap library (-ltermcap).

     PASCAL
          If  your  command  "pc <Your flags as above> <pascal source>
          will not generate an object  (.o)  file,  then  change  this
          string  from  "pc"  to be the name of a command that will do
          this.  An example of what was used for the Whitechappel  MG1
          with  the  lattice  pascal  compiler  is  included with this
          release in the file pc.mg1.

     LINK If  the  pc  command with arguments as specified above (LIBS
          and PCFLAGS) will not create an executable file, then modify
          this string.  (The -o flag is passed, together with  a  file
          name).

     LOCAL/REMOTE
          Depending  on whether you are generating a version of curlew
          that will drive the terminal using  termcap,  or  SSMP  then
          un-comment  one of the next groups of four lines.  Note that
          the local terminal handling  primitives  in  tpprim.c  could
          make better use of termcap.  They work adequately on the Sun
          and  Whitechappel,  but  do  not  scroll properly unless the
          terminal provides insert line/delete line.

          #REMOTE LOCREM = REMOTE
          #REMOTE PRIMS = stprim.o
          #REMOTE HEADS = st.h
          #REMOTE BASE = bsd

          #LOCAL  LOCREM = LOCAL
          #LOCAL  PRIMS = stprim.o tpprim.o
          #LOCAL  HEADS = st.h tp.h
          #LOCAL  BASE = sun

4)   If  your  system needs any special #defines etc then put these in
     the file local.h.  You will probably only find out  on  a  second
     pass,  having  discovered  some errors.  Currently we do this for
     our UTS test system.

5)   Run  the  make  command  to compile curlew.  Typical output is as
     follows (This example is produced by a complete re-compilation on
     the Encore Multimax):-

              pc -berkeley -c typedefs.p
              pc -berkeley -o typedefs typedefs.o
              typedefs >st.typ.h
              chmod a-w st.typ.h
              sed "s/external;/nonpascal;/" <typecheck1.h >tc.h
              pc -berkeley -c typecheck1.p
              cc -c typecheck2.c
              pc -berkeley -o typecheck typecheck1.o typecheck2.o
              typecheck
     st.typ.h verification ok
              touch typecheck.ok
              cc -c -DHELPDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DREMOTE stprim.c
              sed "s/external;/nonpascal;/" <st-bsd.h >st.h
              pc -berkeley -c cl-bsd.p
              pc -berkeley -o cl2 cl-bsd.o stprim.o
              tbl curlew.t >curlew.l
              touch all

6)   Lastly  if everything is ok, the command "make install" will copy
     curlew to the appropriate places in your system, and "make clean"
     will remove .o files and other files that are no longer needed.

One  of  the biggest problems when installing curlew on other machines
has been the allocation of differing sizes  to  various  subranges  of
integer.   This has been eased by the introduction of the typedefs and
typecheck programs, but if you get  unexpected  catastrophic  run-time
errors, it would be well worth re-checking the contents of st.typ.h.

If  the  typecheck  program reports errors, and causes the makefile to
terminate early, then check the contents of st.typ.h,  and  read  your
local  documentation  to  find  out how to link together Pascal and C.
You may need to  modify  st.typ.h  by  hand,  and  dispense  with  the
typedefs program.

If  problems  are  found  with  the  installation  of Curlew on a Unix
system, I can be contacted at the address given below.   The  original
author of Curlew is Alan Hunter (Alan_Hunter at the same address).

Chris Ritson

JANET: Chris_Ritson@uk.ac.newcastle                  PHONE: +44 91 232 9233
UUCP : ...!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!Chris_Ritson
ARPA : Chris_Ritson%newcastle.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
SNAIL: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

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