Welcome to the distribution of Edith Professional for X11. Please read the instructions in this file carefully, before you attempt to install the package. Please also read the file COPYING before using Edith Pro.

If you are installing from the MS-DOS formatted floppy disk that came with the manual, create a new directory, and extract the tar file on the floppy disk in the new directory. A new set of tar files will be created.

INVENTORY

Make sure that you have at least the following files: the `common' tar file
   edith1.5x.common.tar.gz
contains the on-line manual pages, and predefined configuration files.

Then, you will need at least one of the following tar files, containing the executable binary for your system(s):

   edith1.5x.linux-elf.tar.gz
   edith1.5x.sgi.tar.gz
   edith1.5x.sun.tar.gz

INSTALLING BINARY AND LIBRARY

Extract the tar files, preferably in one of the following directories:
   /usr/lib
   /usr/local
   /usr/local/lib
   /usr/local/contrib
   ~/lib
If you choose a different directory, you will need to set the environment variable EDITHSYSTEM to the full path name of the extracted directory edith, henceforth called the edith library directory.

Now copy the binary to a place where your shell can find it, or add an entry to your PATH variable.

Copy the manual page edith.1 into /usr/local/man/man1, and use makewhatis (1) to update /usr/local/man/whatis.

You should now be able to run edith by typing edith at your shell prompt.