July 2008
Beginner
492 pages
16h
English
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Sources and Supported Operating Systems
The official WWW location for elvis is ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/README.html. From there, you can download the elvis distribution or get it directly, using ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/elvis-2.2_0.tar.gz.
The source code for elvis is
freely distributable. elvis is
distributed under the terms of perl’s Artistic License. The licensing terms
are described in the doc/license.html file in the
distribution.
elvis works under Unix, OS/2, MS-DOS, and modern versions of MS Windows. The Unix and Windows ports provide a graphical user interface. The MS-DOS version includes mouse support.
Compiling elvis is straightforward. Retrieve the distribution via ftp or via a web browser. Uncompress and untar it,[57] run the configure program, and then run make:
$gzip -d < elvis-2.2_0.tar.gz | tar -xvpf -... $cd elvis-2.2_0; ./configure... $make...
elvis should configure and
build with no problems. Use make
install to install it.
Note
The default configuration causes elvis to install itself in standard system
directories, such as /usr/bin,
/usr/share, and so on. If you
wish to have things installed in /usr/local, use the
--prefix option to the configure script.
Should you need to report a bug or problem in elvis, the person to contact is Steve Kirkendall at kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu.
[57] The untar.c program available from the elvis ftp site is a very portable, simple program for unpacking gziped tar files on non-Unix systems.
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