\chapter{Hardware Requirements and Installation}\index{installation}

\label{chap:hard}
\markboth{Chapter 3 Hardware and Installation}
{Chapter 3 Hardware and Installation}

	\index{system requirements} There are fully functional verions of
Splot available for PCs running OS/2 or W95/WNT.
Disk space requirements are modest. The
executable, help, demo and font files take up less than one Mb of disk 
space. The documentation in \LaTeX form and the resultant postscript document 
containing all the figures in the demo directory take up another 2 Mb. 

	To install Splot make a directory for it copy the distribution file 
to it and then use an un-zipping utility to un-zip the zipped distribution 
file. Be sure to use the appropriate flag so that the necessary sub directories are 
created if your un-zipping utility requires it. This should create three sub 
directories one containing the fonts, another containing the example 
programs and a third for the documentation. The executable and help files
should be in the current directory.

	It is recommended that the actual drawing files be put in a sub 
directory of the main Splot directory. 

	To run\index{starting splot} the program type splot (or spltdemo for 
the demo version) on a command line followed by an optional file name(s). 
Alternatively after setting up an association between *.spt files and 
splot.exe files can be dragged to the splot icon to start Splot. 
