Make sure that the X Motif libraries (and development files) are installed on your machine. For example, on Fedora Linux you can install the Motif package as follows:
sudo dnf install motif-devel
Installation of the plat package ought to be reasonably straightforward.
The Makefile is not very clever, on the other hand there are not many
pitfalls since the code is quite self-contained.
Perform the following steps:
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Edit the file
machine.h. This has a few options connected with the kind of graphics you might want to use. If you want to compile with the X/Motif user interface, versionxplat, then make sure that#define X_WINDOWSis not commented out. Conversely, you should comment it out if you want to compile the plain versionplat, with no interactive graphics. -
Edit the
Makefile. The only thing you might need to change is theGRAPHLIBconstant if your X libraries are in a different directory to mine. -
Depending on which flavour of the program you want, type
make xplator just plainmake platfor no interactive graphics. -
If you typed
make xplatthen copy the X resources fileXPlatto the application defaults directory (on my machine this is in/usr/lib64/X11/app-defaults).
Then try running xplat (or respectively plat) and keep your fingers crossed.
Help with the commands is to be found in the file help.txt (note that the program assumes it is in the same directory as the help file, in order to find it).
Extensive documentation in postscript form is found in the subdirectory doc.
An example of a command file is to be found in the shellscript example.sh.
Copyright (c) 1996, Fintan Bolton, [email protected]