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It is assumed that once the MAINSAIL bootstrap has been created, it is placed in the standard directory for executable files (usually /usr/bin) so that users do not need to type the full path name of the MAINSAIL bootstrap each time they run MAINSAIL. If this assumption is not satisfied, the discussion below must be modified accordingly; i.e., the full path name of the MAINSAIL bootstrap must be typed each time MAINSAIL is invoked.
Detailed installation instructions come with each MAINSAIL system
shipped.
2.2. Invoking MAINSAIL
To run a MAINSAIL program type mainsa<eol> to the shell.
MAINSAIL begins execution and types a herald identifying itself and
the version of MAINSAIL being used.
It then types * as a prompt and waits for input.
The * prompt and possible responses to it are described in
Chapter 21 of the MAINSAIL Utilities User's Guide.
2.3. Default Objmod and Intmod Searchpaths and File Names
The object MODULE file name for a MODULE compiled for UNIX
is constructed by converting the MODULE name to lower case
and appending to it the appropriate flavor-dependent prefix,
as shown in Table A–1;
as described in Appendix A, this file name
is usually mapped to a different one through a searchpath.
Use of the MAINSAIL compiler is described in the MAINSAIL Compiler User's Guide.
MAINSAIL System-Specific User's Guides, Chapter 2