1.3 Installing

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The hardware requirements of C-- are minimal: a 386 or later cpu, at

least 1M disk space, and 4MB RAM. It may be installed on computers with

Win95 or later, or in a pure DOS environment. The basic package contains a

32-bit DOS version of the compiler. Both the DOS version, and a Windows

console version, which can handle long file names, can be downloaded free

from one of the following two sites:

http://sheker.chat.ru

http://c--sphinx.narod.ru

It is quite simple to install C-- on your computer. Let's assume that

you will be installing to the C: drive. Create a directory on that drive

called C-- or whatever you prefer (using the DOS md command or however you

prefer). Then download from one of the above URLs full_c--.zip and

ful_c--2.zip and unzip them into this directory. You may add the name of

this directory to the PATH environment variable in autoexec.bat. The

compiler is now ready to use. Either switch to this directory, or run

autoexec.bat so that it will be on the path.

The environment variable for C-- is set either from the command line or

by a batch file (preferably in autoexec.bat). This variable indicates where

the compiler can find its library files. For example:

SET C--=c:\c--\lib

The current version of C-- does not absolutely require setting the

environment variable. You may use other methods to indicate where the

library files are located (not discussed here).