This is TransSkel release 3.17

Installation instructions may be found below. These are copied from the Distribution section of the Reference Manual (found in the Documents folder).

You should read the various release notes (in the Release Notes folder inside the Documents folder) if you've programmed with earlier releases of TransSkel. Changes made to recent releases sometimes result in incompatiblities with applications written with earlier releases.

*** As of release 3.11, the Pascal-compatible interface is now the default, indeed only, interface available. Be sure to read the 3.11 Release Notes and TransSkel Programmer's Note 11. ***

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu

Release Dates

07 Jan 94 Release 3.06
26 Jan 94 Release 3.07
31 Jan 94 Release 3.08
03 Feb 94 Release 3.09
14 Feb 94 Release 3.10
26 Feb 94 Release 3.11
18 Apr 94 Release 3.12
02 May 94 Release 3.13
02 May 94 Release 3.14
03 May 94 Release 3.15
04 May 94 Release 3.16
01 Jun 94 Release 3.17


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Installing TransSkel

TransSkel can be used either from THINK C or THINK Pascal.

Interface Installation for C

In order for the TransSkel header files and library to be easily accessible to your projects, you should install them inside the same folder as that in which the THINK Project Manager is located. I do this by creating folders named ÒLocal #includesÓ and ÒLocal LibrariesÓ. This makes it clear that their contents are not part of SymantecÕs distribution.

Make a copy of TransSkel.h from the TransSkel ÒInterfaceÓ folder and put it in ÒLocal #includesÓ. To build the library, open TransSkel.¹ in the TransSkel folder and update it. You can install the library two ways, as a copy of updated project document, or as a library. To install it as a copy of the updated project, just make a copy and put it in ÒLocal LibrariesÓ and rename the copy to TransSkel. To install the project as a library, copy TransSkel from the ÒInterfaceÓ folder into the ÒLocal LibrariesÓ folder.  (Or select Project/Build Library after updating TransSkel.¹, and install the library as TransSkel in the ÒLocal LibrariesÓ folder.)  You can then add TransSkel to your application project documents.

The advantage of installing the project as a library is library documents are smaller than project documents. This reduces the disk space required. The advantage of installing a copy of the project document is that if no functions are referenced for a given file in the project, the object code for that file isnÕt linked into your application, resulting in smaller applications. If you install the project as a library, all the code is linked in, whether you use it all or not.

Interface Installation for Pascal

The Pascal interface consists of two files in the ÒInterfaceÓ folder, the interface file TransSkel.intf and the library document TransSkel. The latter is included in the distribution in precompiled form as a library document, because you cannot use THINK C project documents from Pascal projects. Copy TransSkel.intf and TransSkel and put them in a location thatÕs convenient for your projects to be able to access them. (If you wish to recompile the library, you may do so using the project TransSkel.¹ located at the top level of the TransSkel distribution.)