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**                IBM-PC Installation of DISLIN                   **
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**  Contents:  1.)  Introduction                                  **
**             2.)  Installation of DISLIN                        **
**             3.)  Getting DISLIN Support                        **
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**  Date   :   15.03.2022                                         **
**  Version:   11.5 / Windows,  Absoft Pro Fortran v8, v9         **
**  Author :   Helmut Michels                                     **
**             Dislin Software                                    **
**             Am Hachweg 10                                      **
**             37083 Göttingen, Germany                           **
**  Email  :   michels@dislin.de                                  **
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1.)  Introduction

     This file describes the  installation  of the  data  plotting
     software  DISLIN  on IBM-PCs  for Windows and Absoft Pro For-
     tran. 

     The libraries  in this distribution are created from the DIS-
     LIN C source together with wrapper routines for Fortran.


2.)  Installation of DISLIN

     The DISLIN distributions for Absoft Pro Fortran are distribu-
     ted  in  the  zipped files  dl_11_af.zip  (version 8, 9)  and
     dl_11_a2.zip (version 10, 11). An  utility for  unpacking the
     DISLIN  files is  available  from the same location where you 
     have downloaded DISLIN, or from the DISLIN CD-ROM. 

     To install DISLIN, make the following steps:

  a) Create a temporary directory and copy the files dl_11_af.zip
     and unzip.exe to it:

     for example:   md  c:\temp
                    cd  c:\temp
                    copy e:\dislin\windows\unzip.exe    *.*
                    copy e:\dislin\windows\dl_11_af.zip *.*

  b) Extract the DISLIN files with the command:

                    unzip -o dl_11_af  

  c) Run the setup program with the command

                    setup

     -  Choose OK

     -  Give the Installation Directory where  DISLIN  should be in-
        stalled. The default directory is C:\DISLIN.

  d) Reconfigure the System

     Set the DISLIN environment variable to c:\dislin and include
     c:\dislin\win in your path. If you have installed DISLIN in a
     different directory, you have to use that directory for the 
     environment variables above.

     The environment variables can be set or modified with the Control
     Panel 
    
     (see Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment
      Variables).

  e) Now you can compile,  link and run the example programs in the
     DISLIN subdirectory examples with the commands

                 DLINK   -a  exa_f77      (for F77)
                 F90LINK -a  exa_f90      (for F90)
     and
                 DLINK   -a  map_f77      (for F77)
                 F90LINK -a  map_f90      (for F90)

     Notes:

      - If your  Absoft Fortran 90  version  does not  recognize the 
        format of the module file  'dislin.mod',  you can re-compile 
        the file 'dislin.f90' in the DISLIN\af and DISLIN\af\real64
        directories with the command 'f90 -c dislin.f90'.

      - F90LINK and DLINK use by default the DISLIN single precision
        library disaf.lib for linking. A double precision version of
        the library is also included with the name disaf_d.lib.


3.)  Getting DISLIN Support

     The DISLIN distributions can be used freely without any restriction.
     Access to the source code is availabe via a support contract from the
     site www.dislin.de.
