This document describes the installation procedure of the program MKDAT.

Part 1: Required software. Without these the program won't work at all.

GNU utilities (gawk, ...), available from: http://www.gnu.org

zsh, available from: http://www.zsh.org

my modified version of gnuplot:
the original gnuplot is available from: http://www.gnuplot.vt.edu
my patch to gnuplot is available from: http://www.renyi.hu/mwp/mkdat

C compiler: your operating system should be equiped with a working C compiler.
If not, please contact your system manager.

The GNU utilities and zsh should be part of your operating system. The program
configure checks for these and tries to install the missing programs. For more
details please see Part 3.

Part 2: Downloading.

You can get the latest version of the program from
http://www.renyi.hu/mwp/mkdat/mkdat-current.tgz

After downloading, you can uncompress it using the command (you need the
program gzip for this purpose):
gzip -dc mkdat-current.tgz | tar xvfp -
Then you can cd into the new directory and continue the installation process.

Part 3: Installation.

Please make sure that the required programs are correctly installed on your
system. Then run the following commands:
./configure

The program configure tries to install the missing programs (if found) unless
the flag --disable-auto-install is specified.

The installation prefix of the new programs can be specified using the flag
--prefix. Its default value is MKDAT's progs subdirectory. You don't need to
have root privileges to make this, only free space and write permission is
required. However if you wish to install the new programs into a commonly
accessible directory (e.g. /usr/local/bin), run the following command as root:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Note: at this moment only the programs zsh and gnuplot_mkdat (the modified
version of gnuplot) can be automatically installed. If GNU utilities or the
C compiler are missing, you should install it manually.

If the automatic installation fails, please see the documetation of that
program. If you can't solve the problem, you can ask the author of MKDAT
(e-mail: ribarik@renyi.hu) for help.

You should rerun the program configure whenever the machine's operating system
or the location of the programs change.