=== Running SLIDE on Mac:

1. Make sure you have the Apple X11 server installed on your computer.
   It should be in the Applications/Utilities folder. Start it up.

2. When you start X11, an xterm terminal window should open. In that window,
   navigate to the folder where you downloaded SLIDE.

3. Untar and unzip the SLIDE archive file (e.g. "tar xzvf slide2004.tar.gz")

4. In the "slide" directory that is created, open the file 
   macsupport/setup_path.sh and change BASE to be the path that you unpacked
   the slide archive into. That is, if you unzipped slide to /Volumes/HD/,
   you should change BASE to "/Volumes/HD/slide"

5. Make sure you're running the bash shell. If you're not sure, you can type
   "bash" to start it.

6. Change to the "slide" folder and type "source macsupport/setup_path.sh"
   This will add a number of environment variables that SLIDE needs to run.

7. Now type "macbin/slideviewer" and slide should start up


=== Running SLIDE on Linux:

1. Open a terminal window. In that window,
   navigate to the folder where you downloaded SLIDE.

2. Untar and unzip the SLIDE archive file (e.g. "tar xzvf slide2004.tar.gz")

3. In the "slide" directory that is created, open the file 
   linuxsupport/setup_path.sh and change BASE to be the path that you unpacked
   the slide archive into. That is, if you unzipped slide to /home/joe,
   you should change BASE to "/home/joe/slide"

5. Make sure you're running the bash shell. If you're not sure, you can type
   "bash" to start it.

6. Change to the "slide" folder and type "source linuxsupport/setup_path.sh"
   This will add a number of environment variables that SLIDE needs to run.

7. Now type "linuxbin/slideviewer" and slide should start up


=== Compiling SLIDE on Mac/Linux

1. Download and setup SLIDE and its support files as described above

2. Download the source archive and unpack it in the slide folder created
   above (e.g., if you unpacked SLIDE to /home/joe/slide, unpack the source
   in that folder. This should create a "src" folder, with the path
   /home/joe/slide/src). 
   
3. Change to the src/viewer folder and type "make". SLIDE should compile,
   leaving the executable "slideviewer" in the src directory


=== Running and Compiling on Windows

Instructions for running and compiling slide on windows platforms is at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ug/slide/pipeline/assignments/instructions.shtml

But you need to make one more fix in the file: installWindowsME.bat
before you use it to set your environment variables:
Replace the line:
ECHO "SLIDE_LIBRARY"="\"%cwd%/lib\"" >> envvars.reg
with
ECHO "SLIDE_LIBRARY"="%cwd%/lib\" >> envvars.reg
(otherwise it writes extra quotes that you don't want!).


=== Running and Compiling on Vista:

1. Download slide from the website: --- Install at C:/slide, --- not
C:/Program Files/Slide.
2. Run slide.bat
3. Manually enter in values for tcl and tk libraries in your envars. (I
think you can bypass this if you install in c:/slide vs. c:/programs/slide)
4. Try to run slide by double clicking "slide.exe" under bin; ---
sometimes running from a command prompt works --- TRY BOTH.
5. Make sure bin/tklibrary/tcllibrary all point to the right places.
( --- A caveat, if you use python and tklibrary to the one you currently
use for python apps.. it may not work...)
6. Make sure the files MATH.tcl, SLIDEUI.tcl, etc are in the same
directory as your <FILE>.slf


=== Running and Compiling on newer (64-bit) machines:

Download a free virtual machine and run in there ...