nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/24/90)
Galahad is now available from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, information about which
is frequently posted in this newsgroup. Grape is also an Opus BBS, for those
unfortunate souls without FTP access [(315)268-6667].
Information about this Galahad Release
The Galahad Collection of software has been developed at Clarkson
University to provide a powerful editor and word processor for its students.
As you probably recall, Clarkson was the first educational institution to
provide all of its incoming Freshman with a personal computer. We currently
have 4000 personal computers on campus, and have an additional 3500 alumni with
a Clarkson computer, which was Clarkson's graduation present to them.
Galahad is copyrighted yet freely copyable software. We encourage anyone
who would like to use a powerful Emacs-like editor, and a capable text
formatter, to use the Galahad Collection software. PLEASE read the Galahad
Public License in the file GALAHAD.LIC on this diskette.
The features of Galahad and its associated software are:
An editor with many editing functions, programmable keys, all working in
ASCII format.
A text formatter which is simple to use, and yet offers desktop publishing
features when used with a PostScript printer. The text formatter uses
ASCII text.
An editor and text formatter which may be either integrated or used
independently.
A text formatter which supports scientific equations, and provides
on-screen previewing of the printed document.
Real-time spelling checking as the user enters text.
On-line word spelling lookup.
Off-line spelling checking of an entire document, with text error marking
and lexicon updating.
On-line Prose Analysis of selected text.
Off-line Prose Analysis of an entire document.
On-line help and Style Manual.
Personalized help screens, created by the user or instructor.
A text formatter which can be installed on UNIX systems for ease of printer
access.
The Galahad documentation is copyrighted. Printed copies may be obtained
from Clarkson University. The entire documentation is included on the Galahad
Distribution Disk #4. It is in archive format, and may be un-archived as
discussed below. You may print a copy of the Galahad documentation for you own
use, but you may not print multiple copies and distribute them without
permission from Clarkson University. A PostScript printer is required to print
the Galahad documentation.
Getting Started
To get started with Galahad you need to read one (or two) short
document(s), and Chapter One of the Galahad Manual. These are on the
documentation disk, but they have been copied to the Galahad Distribution Disk
#2 in un-archived form, so that you can get started without going through the
un-archive process. Since you need to read the files but do not as yet know
how to use Galahad, we have chicken and egg problem. We will explain how to
read them after suggesting what to read first.
To get started please read:
1) "Getting Started With Galahad 2.10" in the file H2START.GAL. If your
computer does not have a high capacity disk drive (1.2 Mbyte) nor a hard disk,
you should use the instructions in "Using Galahad on Two 360K Disk Drives" in
the file H2TWODSK.GAL. PLEASE NOTE: There is an error in the printed copy of
"Getting Started With Galahad 2.10". The editor is PER.COM not PER.EXE. Also,
the order of the files on the distribution disks may be different than that
described in these articles.
2) Chapter One of the Galahad Manual in the file GALCH1.GAL.
3) Before you get serious with Galahad and start printing, you should read
the article "How To Install A New Printer In GALAHAD 2.10" in the file
H2GALINI.GAL.
If you do not have a hard disk the next section tells you how to use the
Galahad Distribution Disks to read H2START.GAL and/or H2TWODSK.GAL on your
computer.
If you have a hard disk you should create a new sub-directory and then
copy Galahad Distribution Disk #1, #2 and #3 into it. (Typical MS-DOS command
to make a sub-directory called GAL and the copy the disks would be: C> MD \GAL,
and then C> COPY A:*.* \GAL for each of the three distribution disks in drive
A:. This will copy all of Galahad onto the hard disk, except the documentation
(Disk #4). So that all of the features of Galahad will work, you should also
add the new sub-directory to the PATH. This is usually defined in the file
AUTOEXEC.BAT. (A typical command in AUTOEXEC.BAT is: PATH=C:\BIN, you would
add to that: PATH=C:\BIN;C:\GAL -- refer to the MS-DOS manual if this is not
familiar).
How to read a file:
1) Place the Galahad Distribution Disk #1 in drive A: of your computer,
and Galahad Distribution Disk #2 in drive B:. If you have a hard disk and have
followed the instructions above, Galahad has been installed, and you can read
the information from the hard disk.
2) For floppy disks at the A:> prompt, enter: GAL2 B:H2START and press the
Return (i.e, Enter) key.
For a hard disk at the C:> prompt, enter two commands: CD \GAL (or what
ever you named the sub-directory) and then GAL2 H2START and press the Return
key. You can ignore the sections on making Galahad working disks and copying
files to it, unless you also plan to use floppy disks.
3) Galahad will start up, load the file, and display the first page on the
screen. Use the Up and Down Arrows, and the PageUp and PageDown keys to move
through the file to read it. You will note some Galahad formatting command in
the text, but they should not distract you too much from reading the text.
After all, eventually you will want to know the formatting commands anyway.
4) If you are not very familiar with a computer you might want to read
Chapter One first. You would do this as above, except enter: GAL2 GALCH1 and
press the Return key.
We hope you enjoy Galahad. It is in use at over 100 colleges and
universities.
DISTRIBUTION DISKETTES
Distribution Diskette #1: Galahad, Percival, Bedevere and Guenevere files.
(The word processor, the editor, the word lookup
processor, the off-line spelling checker.)
Distribution Diskette #2: On-line spelling checker, Bedevere and Guenevere's
lexicon, and three documentation files.
Distribution Diskette #3: Lancelot I and Lancelot II files.
(The off-line and on-line prose analysis
processors).
Distribution Diskette #4: Galahad documentation in compressed format.
TECHNICAL NOTES and OTHER INFORMATION
1) To un-archive the Galahad documentation. Copy ZOO200.EXE from
Distribution Disk #3 to a disk with at least 240K free. Then, enter: ZOO200.
This will un-archive itself. You will now have the ZOO program (among others).
To un-archive the documentation you will need about 550k of free bytes on a
diskette or hard disk. If you do not have such space, then un-archive parts of
the documentation. To un-archive all of it put ZOO.EXE and the documentation
on a disk together, say A:, then to un-archive it to drive B: enter at the A>:
ZOO -EXTRACT GALDOC.ZOO B:*.*. To un-archive part of it, enter: ZOO -EXTRACT
GALDOC.ZOO B:GAL*.*. You may see the contents of GALDOC.ZOO by entering: ZOO
-LIST GALDOC.ZOO.
2) As the Galahad Public License says, you may have the source code if
you want it. Since it is not desired by very many, it is not distributed with
this distribution, but you may obtain it from the address below for a handling
charge of $10.
3) The file GALPC.EXE is not discussed in the documentation. It is the
free standing text formatter. It is a filter. It take its input from standard
input, and puts it out to standard output. To obtain some help enter: GALPC
-h. It is useful for those who want to use their own editor. The source is
available so that it can be compiled under BSD UNIX, and probably many others.
4) The files PS14.DEF and PS14LAND.DEF are required by a PostScript printer
when you use a 14 inch paper tray.
5) The files PS_xxx.FNT are font metric files for the PostScript fonts.
If you intend to use a PostScript printer they should be in the same
sub-directory as GALAHAD.INI. It is not essential that they be used, but if
present Galahad will do a better job of managing the PostScript output. Also,
you only need to include those .GMF files of the fonts you intend to use. The
GALAHAD.INI file as supplied assigns the following correspondence between the
PostScript fonts and .S numbers.
Font Number Galahad Usage Font Metric File Font Name
1 .st1,xx,yy PS_FNT1.GMF Times-Roman
2 .st2,xx,yy PS_FNT2.GMF Helvetica
3 .st3,xx,yy PS_FNT3.GMF Palatino
4 .st4,xx,yy PS_FNT4.GMF Schoolbook
5 .st5,xx,yy PS_FNT5.GMF Courier
6 .st6,xx,yy PS_FNT6.GMF Zapf
PS_FNT0.GMF is use for the Symbol Font, accessed in Galahad with the &g
and &h commands.
Point of Contact
The Galahad Collection is distributed by Clarkson University, Educational
Computing, Potsdam, NY 13676. Telephone: (315) 268-6455.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problemsshermaja@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU ("Jesse A. Sherman") (02/25/90)
Have there been upgrades to the Z-100 version? The last one I have is
2.07.
Will the Z-100 version be distributed?
Jessenelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/25/90)
In article <9002250521.AA11513@clutx.clarkson.edu> shermaja@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU ("Jesse A. Sherman") writes:
Have there been upgrades to the Z-100 version? The last one I have is
2.07.
Yes.
Will the Z-100 version be distributed?
Not sure. Galahad 2.10 for the Z-100 requires something like 384K of
memory. Galahad 2.07 only requires 192K.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems