INSTALLATION: WAIS Unix release 8 b5 Sun May 10 1992 Jonathan Goldman Thinking Machines Corp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WARRANTY DISCLAIMER This software was created by Thinking Machines Corporation and is distributed free of charge. It is placed in the public domain and permission is granted to anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute it provided that this notice is attached. Thinking Machines Corporation provides absolutely NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND with respect to this software. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this software is with the user. IN NO EVENT WILL THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR LOST PROFITS, OR FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ These are some instructions on installation and building of the software in this distribution. To use the software in this release, you must first uncompress and untar the distribution file. This will create a directory called wais-8-b4, with a number of subdirectories. To build the software, first modify the file wais-8-b4/Makefile according to the comments to conform to your particular Hardware/Software architecture. You will have to set the variable "TOP", as this is not done automatically. Be sure to comment out the lines that ay "comment-me". Then simply type "make". Most of the software will be made automatically, but the X windows user interface may not be made due to your particular system's installation of the X windows base software. New with this release is an Imakefile, which can be used to create a Makefile that includes the locations of the X software for a particular site. If you can build an X application, you should be able to build xwais. More information on this release can be found in the README file in this directory. Jonathan Goldman WAIS Release Engineer.