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Detailed installation instructions come with each MAINSAIL system
shipped.
2.2. Invoking MAINSAIL
MAINSAIL can be invoked as a Windows-based application or as a
character-based application, depending on the bootstrap used to
invoke it.
Several different bootstraps are
supplied for MAINSAIL on NTPNT; your
current installation note describes
the names of the bootstraps and
how to run them.
All the MAINSAIL bootstraps supplied by the default installation
process run the MAINSAIL executive MAINEX or the MAINSAIL editor
MAINEDIT;
any MAINSAIL MODULE can be invoked from either of these programs.
MAINEX is described in detail
in Chapter 21 of the MAINSAIL Utilities User's Guide
and MAINEDIT in the MAINEDIT User's Guide.
2.3. Default Objmod and Intmod Searchpaths and File Names
The default objmod and intmod searchpaths on NTPNT are:
SEARCHPATH *-obj:* *2-*1.obj
SEARCHPATH *-int:* *2-*1.int
and the file abbreviation, the string substituted for the first wildcard above, is mpn. The compiler forms the objmod file name for a MODULE by converting the MODULE name to lower case and adding the prefix mpn-obj:. If the above default searchpath is in effect, the objmod file name for a MODULE FOO will be foo-mpn.obj.
Similarly, the compiler forms the intmod file name for a MODULE by converting the MODULE name to lower case and adding the prefix mpn-int:. If the above default searchpath is in effect, the intmod file name for a MODULE FOO will be foo-mpn.int.
MAINSAIL System-Specific User's Guides, Chapter 2