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% MOOD4-PC ver.1.11
% Copyright(C) 1992, 1993 MOOD Project
% Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering,
% Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University
% Aramaki-Aoba, Aoba, Sendai, 980, Japan
% ono@mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
%
% This is a free software. You can copy, modify, and distribute
% this software and its documentation for free, provided that all
% the following conditions are satisfied:
%
% 1) The above copyright notice appears in all copies.
% 2) The name "MOOD" is retained in, or a part of, the name of
%    the software based on this software.
% 3) This software is obtained with no warranty.
%
% MAR 27, 1993
% Written by Noboru Ono, Jun-ichi Yamamoto and Yasunori Inada
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1. this program, MOOD4-PC is

     - for "Material's/Miniature Object-Oriented Database";
     - an Object-Oriented database system program run on either of
       NEC/PC-9801 or IBM-PC/AT;
     - written solely in Arity/Prolog;
     - released in the forms of:
         * compiled executable program,
         * source program which can be run on Arity/Prolog
           interpreter and, as well, compiled with Arity/Prolog
           compiler.

     to run this program, therefore, you need:

   1) either of NEC/PC-9801 (or its clone) or IBM-PC (or its clone).
   2) MS-DOS.
   3) print.sys (and ansi.sys on IBM-PC).

     if you intend to put further development to this program, you
need Arity/Prolog. we wonder, however, the most part of the source codes
would be acceptable with other Prolog systems, since the syntax of Arity/
Prolog is highly compatible with the standard Edinburgh Prolog.

2. by uncompressing ans untaring mood4.1.11.tar.Z, you will get

    mood4.1.10/
        README              :this file
        changes             :changes from mood4.1.00
        release-note        :brief description of this program.
        mood4.exe           *compiled mood4 program
        mood4.idb           *prolog internal database
        mood4.env           *prolog environment specifications
        metaclss.mod        *definition of MOOD intrinsic classes
        mood4.def           *machine and display color specifications
        sample/            
            sample.mod      :a sample material database file
        source/             :source program files are here
        maketool/           :makefiles etc. to recompile MOOD4
            include/        :header files used in compilation

    To run mood4.exe;

    1) place the 5 files commented with '*' in one directory on a PC.
    2) if you are with IBM-PC/MS-DOS/V environment, make sure ANSI.SYS
       in in you system configuration.
    3) if you are to invoke MOOD4's print out functions, make sure
       PRINT.SYS is in your system configuration.
    4) choose either of machine(ibm) or machine(nec), and the corres-
       poding color settings in mood4.def.
    5) then, you can start mood4 with;

        >mood4

    6) according to 'OVERFLOW = .' in the file mood4.env, a temporary
       work file is created in the current directory. the current drive,
       therefore, must be write-enabled. if you do not like these or
       if the drive is nearly full, you can place the work file any
       other place by changing '.' to others.

3. documentations for this program are not ready, but general ideas and
instructions for basic operations are found in the manual for MOOD/P3 and
a supplement for mood4 which are in ../doc from where this package is
placed. help menu will be shown up with "H" key.

4. files in ~/source directory are source programs of MOOD4.1.11. they
can be run as they are on Arity/Prolog interpreter. at the same time,
they can be compiled with Arity/Prolog compiler by putting specific
declaration sentences at the beginning of them. the declarations are
bundled in the header files in ~/maketool/include directory. Makefile
and other necessary files are provided in ~/maketool to combine them
with the appropriate source files and compile them to make MOOD4.EXE.
see README's in these directories.
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