Elvis 2.1 for OS/2
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The installation
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To install Elvis three steps are necessary:

1. Install all that is in the lib/ subdirectory somewhere on your system.
2. Set the environment variable ELVISPATH to that directory.
3. Put all executable files somewhere they get found, preferrably some
   directory mentioned in your PATH environment variable.

To see if all worked well I suggest starting Elvis from the command line
and then entering the command ":help". If now the window gets split to
show the online documentation in the upper half everything is OK.


The files
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The Elvis OS/2 port supports various different environments since not all
users may have TCP/IP or XFree86/2 installed. So there are four different 
versions of the Elvis executable:

elvis.exe         is the regular executable with TCP/IP (e.g. ftp and http)
                  support. TCP/IP for OS/2 is needed to run this file.
elvis-no-tcp.exe  is the elvis executable for systems with no TCP/IP 
                  support, e.g. older versions than Warp 3.0 Connect.
elvisemx.exe      is Elvis compiled for EMX. It requires the EMX runtime 
                  and provides Termcap support in addition to the regular 
                  OS/2 VIO interface used by the regular version.
elvisx11.exe      is like elvisemx.exe but with additional X11 support 
                  allowing the X11 interface to be used under XFree86/2.
                  The X11 version also runs with PMX if you install the
                  x11.dll from the XFree86 package.

The misc programs are all regular OS/2 programs provided only in one
version: 

  vi.exe, ex.exe, ctags.exe, ref.exe, fmt.exe


The authors
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This port has been done by Lee Johnson and Martin "Herbert" Dietze (me). 
Since Lee has stopped working on the project, please, send all comments
and / or bug reports specific to the OS/2 version to me:

  herbert@paulina.shnet.org 
or
  herbert@fh-wedel.de

I am not yet sure whether I will continue Lee's work on a PM version of
elvis. Maybe someone wants to port Serge's Win32 version via Open32?

Herbert in October 1998
