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Installing ML on your own machine

Download Standard ML of New Jersey from smlnj.org. We will be using SML/NJ version 110.67. If you have issues installing 110.67, you should have no problems with the latest version, 110.75.

* On Windows, install this. When prompted for "where to install", don't install in the standard place (which is C:/Program Files/SMLNJ) but install it in some path without spaces in the name, such as C:/SMLNJ
* On Macintosh, install this, unless you have an older Mac with the PowerPC processor, in which case this. See notes below for more information on the 1st link.
* On Linux/Unix, unpack this. If you want sml to be in $WHEREVER/bin/sml, then you should unpack it inside directory $WHEREVER; then, sitting in $WHEREVER, run config/install.sh.

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Usage notes on Windows.

If you run "SML of New Jersey" from the Start menu, it will start in your Documents and Settings directory. You can "cd" to another directory by
- OS.FileSys.chDir "\path\name\etc";
or you can make a Windows shortcut that starts wherever you want, by modifying the "Start in:" of the properties.

Or, you can just run a command prompt, change to whatever directory you're working in, and run "sml". I prefer to run sml inside a shell window of my Cygwin emacs.

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Usage notes on Macintosh

In order to install, unzip the supplied file to an empty directory where you will install. Open a terminal, cd to that directory containing the config directory, and run './config/install.sh'. Once this is complete you need to add the path of the directory 'bin' to your PATH environment variable (to get the full path just cd to bin and type 'pwd'). Then add this full path to your PATH variable in ~/.profile. Close the terminal and reopen it and it should be good to go.

If you have issues installing this version, you should be able to install the latest version, 110.75, which also should have no problems with the assignments.

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