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2. Installation

You can get the last Dr Geo version at: http://drgeo.home.ml.org

2.1 Dr Geo needs

  1. A 486DX or better. Dr Geo makes a lot of floating point calculs so an arithmetic coprocessor is required.
  2. Dos, Windows 3.11 or Windows 95.
  3. A Microsoft compatible mouse. Possible problem with logithech mouse driver.
  4. A 32 bits super VGA video card or better. Works with old VGA card but slower.
If you have some problem with the display or the welcome screen doesn't appear try to install a VBE driver.

2.2 Installing The Software

Unarchive the DrGEO zip file with with winzip, pkzip or equivalent in an empty folder (ex. DrGeo). When running unarchive enable the recursive folder option. (with pkzip use the flag -d) Once installed, the folder structure must be look like this :

\DrGeo----------- 
                | 
                ---\Data 
                | 
                ---\Examples 
                | 
                ---\Font 
                | 
                ---\lang 
                | 
                ---\Mac 
                | 
                ---Cwsdpmi.exe (dos extender) 
                | 
                ---Drgeo.exe (main executable) 
                | 
                ---Drgeo.txt (this file) 

The Examples directory contains figures files (geo extension). The lang directory contains national message for Dr Geo. The Mac directory contains macro-construction.

Important:

2.3 Starting With Dr GEO

From the command line type drgeo. The following commands line options can be used :

-lang xx to start with a specified language.
-f filename to start with a given figure

Other command line options:

Term under [] are options, || means OR: drgeo [-f geo_file_name || macro_file_name] [-lang language_number] [geo_file_name] [-select] [-help]

Several macro files can be loaded at start by using a -f command for each file. The number provides with -lang XX is the position of the language, in the list found in the set-up dialog-box, starting with number 0.

Example:

drgeo examples/hexagone.geo -f macro/bissect.mac -f macro/center.mac -lang 2

Under window, by attaching the defaut file type geo to DrGeo it's possible to start automaticly Dr Geo when double clicking on a geo file. Also, it's possible to attach Dr Geo as an application for Netscape. Allowing automatic start of Dr Geo when clicking on geo file link in a html page under Netscape. Read the FAQ on the Dr Geo web site to know more about this.


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