If you are installing the software from a CD-ROM, copy the contents of the `src/db' directory to your hard disk. If you are installing the software from a diskette, and your system does not have UNIX-compatible `tar' and `compress' utilities, unpack the archive on a PC and copy the entire contents of the `db' directory to your system. Follow the MS-DOS installation procedure as above; you will be given an opportunity to stop once the archive has been unpacked. Note that the unpacked text files are in UNIX format (i.e., lines are terminated by ASCII line-feed characters only). If your system expects text files in MS-DOS format (with both a carriage return and a line-feed at the end of each line; VMS is one such system), let the MS-DOS installation procedure continue one step further, until it announces that it has reformatted the text files for MS-DOS. If your system is a Macintosh (which expects that lines are terminated by carriage returns only), you will have to reformat the text files yourself, which may be done on the PC if you have third-party software to do so, or on the Macintosh otherwise. Additional notes for Macintosh users may be found in file `MAC' (within the `db' directory).
The DB Software Package is written in highly portable C, and (with the exception of a few MS-DOS or UNIX-specific display or data-acquisition programs) should be easy to compile with any K&R or ANSI C compiler. The UNIX and MS-DOS `make' description files (`makefile.unx' and `makefile.dos' in `db' and in each of its subdirectories) should get you started.
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