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It appears not possible to load .pl files that are in the root
directory of a drive.  Put your files in subdirectories.  Also,
donot make the working directory the root of a drive.

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It appears pkunzip puts all the	files in the same directory.  Use
unzip.

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A news article with useful comments.  <jan> is added as comment by me.

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From: ryoung@utdallas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: SWI Prolog for Windows Experience
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 09:47:25
Organization: University of Texas at Dallas
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I got SWI Prolog for Windows (from swi.psy.uva.nl: pub/SWI-Prolog)
and installed it in Windows for Workgroup 3.11.

According to readme.win, if the base directory is c:\pl,
it is not necessary to set SWIPL. But, without setting it,
SWI Prolog does not work properly. E.g. enter help;
SWI Prolog complains that it cannot find index ...
So always set SWIPL, such as:

   set swipl=/c:/pl

or

   set swipl=/d:/lang/swipro

etc.

According to readme.win, the following does 'boot compilation':

  pl.exe -e startup/startup.pc -b boot/init.pl -c boot/load.pl

This only works when the base directory is c:\pl. If you install
it in other directory, it does not work, even though you set SWIPL
correctly. So do the following, instead:

  pl.exe -e /d:/lang/swipro/startup/startup.pc -b /d:/lang/swipro/boot/init.pl
             -c /d:/lang/swipro/boot/load.pl

<jan> -e should be -o
<jan> I think the original is fine if the working directory is the
      installation directory.

[Of course, in one line ..., or File/Run of Windows Program Manager.]

Be sure to put / (forward slash) in front of the drive name.

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By the way, SWI Prolog is *COOL*. Good job.

Young


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