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I use newlisp under Windows98SE2 and Windows2000

When I install newLISP under Windows98SE2
I can't run newLISP-tk because I have no
environment variable PROGRAMFILES!

Of course, I can use notepad (for example) and
alter file newlisp-tk.config, but it is the same that
I copy (or unzip) newLISP-files to my favorite
directory and alter newlisp-tk.config with notepad.

More over, situation, when user can't use newlisp
because of he (she) has limited rights
on own computer (sometimes) is NOT good...

I think, we must have newlisp as zip-file too.

P.S. May by the best installation will be such:
I unzip newlisp.zip to my favorite directory and run
(if want)
newlisp install.lsp
?

:)

The new setup routine using the PROGRAMFILES environment variable was done to facilitate installing in a Windows standard location for 3rd party software using the newlisp.dll and for international installs. I am sorry that this breaks installs on Windows 98 machines, unfortunately I have no 98 system available to work on a fix. The best would be to put "set PROGRAMFILES=c:\Windows\Program Files" or whatever the correct path is in the autoexec.bat file of your system before installing newLISP_tk.

Installing in a different location during install will always make it necessary to edit newlisp-tk.config. This would then be the same as unzipping to a different location.

Lutz