Abacus quick install info: 1. Check what Tcl version you have. If you are running 8.0.3, you don't have to do nothing, but if you are running 8.0.0 -> 8.0.2 remove the simbolic link 'canvas' and make a new one pointing to the canvas-tcl8.0.0 directory with the following commands: 'rm canvas' 'ln -s canvas-tcl8.0.0 canvas' 2. Edit Makefile.otions for any platform-specific settings. If you are using gcc and have bison and flex properly installed on your system you shouldn't need to do this. 3. 'make dep' 4. 'make' 5. Define the following environment variables ABACUS_HOME - directory where you built the Abacus. ABACUS_EDITOR - external editor to use when editing macros. ABACUS_BROWSER - web browser to view WWW pages and info. Under bash you should do: export ABACUS_HOME=/directory/where/i/did/make export ABACUS_BROWSER=netscape export ABACUS_EDITOR=emacs If you are using csh use instead: setenv ABACUS_HOME /directory/where/i/did/make setenv ABACUS_BROWSER netscape setenv ABACUS_EDITOR emacs It's probably also a good idea to put these lines in your login script. 6. Type 'abacus' and have fun! :)