readme.txt

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Visual Prolog 6.2 Release Candidate (Build 6200)
Personal Edition

1. Purpose

Visual Prolog is a complete programming environment based on the
Prolog programming language.  Visual Prolog is completely object
oriented, and combines the best features of many programming
paradigms.

Visual Prolog is the successor of TURBO Prolog and PDC Prolog.

It contains everything needed for building large-scale commercial
applications: complete graphical development environment, compiler,
linker and debugger.

Visual Prolog includes a large library with bindings to a range of
APIs: Including Windows GUI, ODBC databases and Internet (sockets,
FTP, HTTP, CGI, etc).

The development environment is written entirely in Visual Prolog,
and contains a number of Code Experts and graphical editors for
dialogs, menus, toolbars etc.

Visual Prolog is very well suited for expert systems, planning and
other AI related problems.

Visual Prolog supports: Windows ME/NT/2000/XP



2. Installation

If you have an older version of Vip6 installed, then we reccommend 
that it is uninstalled first.

Run the program: vip6200pe.exe, select "Extract" and then accept
to run vip6setup.exe, and follow the installation wizard.

3. License and distribution conditions

As stated in the license agreement, the restrictions of the
Personal Edition are:

You are permitted to:

- use the Personal Edition at home for learning Visual Prolog.
- use the Personal Edition at educational institutions for
  teaching and learning Visual Prolog.
- make as many copies of the Visual Prolog Personal Edition as you
  wish; give unmodified copies of the Visual Prolog Personal Edition
  installation program to anyone; and distribute the Visual Prolog
  Personal Edition installation program in its unmodified form via
  electronic means.

You are NOT permitted to:

- distribute or give away any executables created with the Personal
  Edition.
- use the Personal Edition for any (direct or indirect) commercial
  purpose.
- remove or attempt to remove the Personal Edition banner from the
  Prolog system or any executable it creates.

Additionally, free support is not provided for the Personal Edition.

However, we strongly recommend using our discussion forum, if you have
any problems or questions:

    http://discuss.visual-prolog.com/vip6.htm

Also follow the online tutorial article series on the WEB:

    http://www.visual-prolog.com/vip6/tutorial

There are no technical or time restrictions, but the Personal Edition
has limited library support compared to the Commercial Edition.
Furthermore, all executables made with the Personal Edition will start
up with a banner saying that it has been produced under the non-commercial
license.


4.  Functional Limitations in the Personal Edition

The Personal Edition can only produce single threaded programs, and has
limited library support.

Programs created with the Personal Edition bring up a dialog when they
start.  This dialog makes the Personal Edition unsuitable for CGI programs, 
though you can test its abilities in that context.

The Commercial Edition among other things have multithread support, supports
ODBC and has additional GUI controls.


5. Contact to Prolog Development Center

Prolog Development Center A/S
H.J. Holstvej 3-5C
DK-2605 Broendby
Denmark

mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.visual-prolog.com

The personal edition is provided without support.