Gofer 2.30a binary executable won't run on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

[Benjamin L. Russell]

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bundled documentation for Gofer 2.30a seems outdated.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