If you are running UNIX you will need to check if you already have Xlisp-Stat on your system. Try typing xlispstat at your system prompt or ask your system administrator. If your system does not have Xlisp-Stat then either you or your system administrator will need to use these instructions to retrieve and install it. You will need about 15 megabytes of hard disk space, X-windows and an ANSI ``C'' compiler. You will also need th have a uuencode command on your system, for which you may need to install the sharutils rpm.
To get the tar file for Xlisp-Stat, go to the link http://www.stat.umn.edu/pub/xlispstat/current, and then download the tar file (the file whose name ends in .tar.gz). You should also go to the Xlisp-Stat homepage for more information.
Once you have Xlisp-Stat , the following commands will uncompress it and extract the archive (the name of the file you download will be a little different from the name below):
% gunzip xlispstat-3-50.tar.gz
% tar -xf xlispstat-3-50.tar
Do these commands where you have a at least 15 MB disk space. If necessary, use the temporary space available on your computer (i.e. /tmp).
Xlisp-Stat is compressed by GNU zip instead of the standard UNIX compression utility (compress). You can retrieve GNU zip from MIT by anonymous ftp to prep.ai.mit.edu. You will need to get the file /pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.tar.
Compiling Xlisp-Stat is easy on most systems. If you do have diffulties, contact Luke Tierney (luke@stat.uiowa.edu).
Once you have unpacked the source code, you will need to read both the INSTALL file and the machines/your-os/README file before compiling. If you have one of the supported systems, you should be able to simply type in the following commands:
% configure
% make
% make install
You may want to specify additional options to configure. For example:
configure --prefix=/home/stat1/bjm --with-gcc --x-includes=/usr/include/mit
Here, I have chosen to: install Xlisp-Stat into my home directory /home/stat1/bjm; use gcc to compile Xlisp-Stat ; and use the X11 include files in /usr/include/mit/X11.
After you have installed Xlisp-Stat (by the make install command), make sure that the location of Xlisp-Stat is in your search path for executables (you may have to edit your ~/.cshrc file).