Installation of the CS1300 Software

This note describes how to install the CS1300 software on your home machine so that it is automatically available each time that you open a DOS window. You'll need about 100,000,000 bytes of free space on the hard drive.

Step A: Obtaining the Files
To start, you'll need to get these two files and put them at the top level of the disc drive that you plan to use:

The second of these files is large (about 22MB), but even a modem internet connection can probably download it overnight. If you don't want to wait overnight, you can download the files to a machine in the Engineering Center and copy them to a zip disc if you have a zip drive. Or you can buy a CD-ROM that contains the two files ($2 from your course instructor).

Step B: Installing the Files
  1. Start a DOS session by clicking: Start, Programs, MS-DOS Prompt.
  2. If the DOS session takes up the whole screen, then reduce it to a smaller window by holding down the Alt key and pressing Enter.
  3. Click on the small MS-DOS icon in the upper left corner of the DOS session. Select Properties, Advanced. Make sure that the box "Prevent MS-DOS-based programs..." is NOT checked. Click OK to get back to the Prompt Properties screen.
  4. Select the Memory tab. In the "Initial environment" box, increase the number to 4096. Click OK.
  5. Shut down the DOS-session by clicking the X in the upper right corner. Then restart a new DOS-session.
  6. From the DOS-session, given these commands (changing the letter C: to the letter of your hard drive that contains the two files):
       C:
       cd \
       unzip cs1300.zip
       del unzip.exe
       del cs1300.zip
    Check that the cs1300 directory was created on your hard drive. Within this directory, there should be several subdirectories (doc, emacs, bin, lib, include, samples, share, and maybe more).
  7. Change to your root directory on your C: drive and give the command edit autoexec.bat to open your autoexec.bat file. Note that this is the C: drive, not necessarily the drive that you are using for the cs1300 software. Add the following lines to the end of this autoexec.bat file (changing the letter C: to the letter of the hard drive where you installed the cs1300 software): 
    
SET EMACS_HOME=C:\cs1300\emacs

SET C_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\cs1300\include

SET CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\cs1300\include\g++;C:\cs1300\include

SET LIBRARY_PATH=C:\cs1300\lib

SET GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=C:\cs1300\lib\gcc-lib\

SET BISON_SIMPLE=C:\cs1300\share\bison.simple

SET BISON_HAIRY=C:\cs1300\share\bison.hairy

PATH=%PATH%;C:\cs1300\bin
    Notice that there is a backslash at the end of "gcc-lib" in one of these commands.
  8. Shut down your machine and reboot so that the autoexec.bat commands will be executed.