Installation instructions ------------------------- 1) Look for a cpp on your system. Probably in /lib, /usr/lib, or /usr/bin. You need to edit src/bootstrap and config/config.h, and change cpp -P to /usr/lib/cpp -P, or wherever your cpp is. If your cpp doesn't recognize the -P option (do cpp -P /dev/null and see if it gives you an error message), just delete that flag. 2) Go into the src directory and do 'bootstrap'. This should create a Makefile for you. Check to make sure it exists, and is longer than 0 characters. If it's 0 characters long, you probably didn't specify the correct cpp in src/bootstrap. (On some systems, you may have to specify './bootstrap' instead of 'bootstrap'. 3) Go into the src directory and do a 'make'. There may be compatibility problems. If there are, it's probably a good idea to learn C at this point, if you haven't already. (If you modify your config.h, make will tell you 'okay, i created a makefile', and give an error message. just ignore this error message and do 'make' again.) 4) go into the src directory and do a 'make install' to install muse in the bin directory. 5) if you're upgrading from a previous version, copy (not move) your database into run/db. otherwise cp test.mdb or test.mdb.Z, depending on whether you have DBCOMP defined in config.h, to mdb or mdb.Z. normally this will be test.mdb and mdb, unless you've changed things. (the MUSE distribution doesn't contain a test.mdb.Z, so you will need to create this by hand by compressing test.mdb) read RESTART on how to restart the muse. read TEST.DB for info about the initial database. read ADMIN for info on administrating your muse. read SUPPORT for info on how to get support. -shkoo