Hi Benjamin, Gofer is kind of dead, I'd recommend instead installing WinHugs, and following one of the many Haskell tutorials out there.
Thanks Neil On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin L. Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since "HUGS" stands for "Haskell User's Gofer System" > (see > http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/definition/Hugs > for a reference), and HUGS is a later version of > Gofer, I am sending this inquiry about a problem in > installing Gofer to this mailing list. > > I managed to > get Gofer 2.28 (see "some haskell FAQ info (occasional > posting, long" > (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/haskell-1990-2006/msg00936.html) > for download information) installed on Windows XP > Professional > Service Pack 2, but when I downloaded Gofer 2.30a and > tried to run bcgofer.exe (either by executing it from > the Command Prompt, or by double-clicking it in the > GUI) (there is no GOFER.EXE file in that version), the > program quit immediately. The same thing happened > when I tried to run bcgofc.exe. > > I was unable to follow instructions in the README.PC > file for Gofer 2.30a because that file refers to a > non-existent "GOFER.EXE" file. How can I move a file > that doesn't exist to the C:\Gofer directory? The > bundled documentation for Gofer 2.30a seems outdated. > > In addition, I tried installing the binary executables > in 386gofer, but with the same results as with Gofer > 2.30a; i.e., when I tried to invoke GOFER.EXE, a > Command Prompt window appeared for a fraction of a > second, then disappeared. > > The user and system environmental variables are both > set correctly; viz: > > EDITLINE: C:\bin\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe +%d %s > EDITOR: C:\bin\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe > GO32: emu c:\DJGPP\EMU387\emu387 > GO32TMP: C:\TMP > GOPHER: C:\GOFER\standard.prelude > Path: C:\Gofer;<existing path> > > I was able to get Gofer 2.28 to run without needing to > compile anything. Do I need to compile something to > run Gofer 2.30a? > > It seems strange that I can get Gofer 2.28 to work, > but not Gofer 2.30; what could be wrong? > > I am currently reading the paper "Functional > Programming," by Jeroen Fokker and the Department of > Computer Science of Utrecht University > (http://people.cs.uu.nl/jeroen/courses/fp-eng.pdf), > which uses Gofer. If you could please tell me what I > need to do to get Gofer 2.30a to work properly, I > would appreciate it very much. > > Benjamin L. Russell > _______________________________________________ > Hugs-Bugs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-bugs > _______________________________________________ Hugs-Bugs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-bugs
