INSTALLATION UNDER DOS/Windows 95

We have tested sgf2tex under Windows 95 using Perl for Win32
and MikTeX. Perl for Win32 may be downladed from
http://www.activestate.com/software/default.htm. There are
alternatives for Perl but be aware that you probably need
Perl 5.001 or later.

MikTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows95 and Windows
NT. MikTeX is available in the CTAN archive
(http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/). The MikTeX homepage is at
http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/.

We have not tested this system with other TeX distributions
for Windows or DOS, but we suspect that it will work just as
well with the Web2c distribution. (It works fine with the
Web2c distribution under Linux.) The following notes assume
that you are using MikTeX. We would appreciate hearing from
you if you successfully use these fonts with other TeX
distributions.

Unzip the file sgf2tex.zip using pkunzip or other unzipping
software. This will create a directory called SGF2TEX.
Copy the .mf file into \texmf\metafont\misc. It does not
seem to be necessary to install the .tfm files, since MikTeX
will generate them the first time they are needed. Change
to the directory SGF2TEX and run

C> tex manual.

This should create a file called manual.tex. You can preview
this using the YAP previewer. Unfortunately we found the
quality of the preview much worse than that of xdvi under
Linux using the same hardware. You can print the file from
YAP and this comes out fine on our HP IIIP. For some reason,
some pages in the manual came out incorrectly the first time
we printed them.  Apparently metafont failed to generate the
.pk files the first time and font substitutions were
performed.  However the second time these pages were printed
them, they came out right.

As an alternative method of printing, you can use dvips
(which comes with MikTeX) to generate a postscript file. You
can send this directly to a postscript printer, or you can
use ghostscript to print it from a variety of non-postscript
printers such as HP Laserjets. You can also preview the
postscript file using ghostview.

sgf2tex is invoked from the DOS prompt with the command:

C> perl sgf2tex [options] [filename]

Remember that to run TeX on a file generated by sgf2tex, TeX
must be able to find the files gooemacs.tex and gotcmacs.tex.
One method is to keep copies of these files in your working
directory.

We have not tried to compile sgfsplit under DOS. The C source
to sgfsplit is included with the distribution and there is
no reason to believe that it will not work.