TASH Installation Procedures

This file describes how to get and install TASH.

1. Get TASH via anonymous ftp.
2. Uncompress and extract it from the tar archive, e.g.: gzcat tash7.6.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
3. Modify the macros in the file, "Makefile.common" in the main directory to reference the correct location of your local Tcl/Tk C libraries, test directories, and X library. The macros to be customized are TCL_LIB, TCL_TEST, TK_LIB, TK_TEST, and X11_LIB.
4. Type "make" in the main directory. This executes a make in each of three subdirectories:
• src contains the Ada/Tcl interface, the Tcl Ada Shell program (tash) and the Tcl Windowing Shell program (twash),
• demos contains several demo programs, including freq and timer,
• and tests contains several test programs.
5. Test that the system was correctly built by executing "make test."
6. Try the freq demo by executing "make test" in the demos directory. To compare the execution time of Tcl versus Ada freq, execute "make time."
7. Also, try the timer demo by executing "timer" in the demos directory. This program is adapted from the timer demo program provided in the Tk distribution.