The following instructions describe how to install the various versions of PC-KIMMO.
If your computer has a hard disk, use the INSTALL.BAT procedure on the PC-KIMMO diskette to install the system on your hard disk. To do this, insert the PC-KIMMO diskette in one of your disk drives. Type A: (or whatever the name of the drive is) in order to log control to that disk. Now type install followed by the name of the hard disk on which you want to install PC-KIMMO (for instance, install C:). This will create a subdirectory called PCKIMMO on your hard disk and copy the contents of the release diskette (with all its subdirectories) into it.
Whether you are using a floppy or hard disk system, the operating system's PATH variable must be set to include the directory where the PC-KIMMO program is found. The AUTOEXEC.BAT file on your boot disk should contain a path statement that specifies all the disks and directories that contain programs. On a floppy disk system, the path statement should include as a minimum the root directory of drive A, for instance, PATH=A:\. On a hard disk system, add ;C:\PCKIMMO to the end of the path statement. For the path statement to become effective, you must reboot the computer. (If you want to change the path variable without changing the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and rebooting, enter a path command directly at the operating system prompt.)
In order to use PC-KIMMO's edit command, you must set the operating system environment variable EDITOR to the name of your text editing program. This is done by including in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file a line of this form:
SET EDITOR=filespec where filespec specifies the path and full file name of your editing program. For example, if your editor's file name is EMACS.EXE and is found in the UTIL subdirectory directly under the root directory, include this line: SET EDITOR=\UTIL\EMACS.EXE
If you get an "Out of memory" error when you try to load a large lexicon, then you need to increase the amount of memory allocated to PC-KIMMO. To do this, click once on its icon or file name to select it, choose Get Info on the File menu, and type a larger number into the memory box. For example, Englex (the description of English described in chapter 3) requires a memory allocation of at least 3000KB.