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

[Neil Mitchell]

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
<dekudekuplex at yahoo.com> 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  bundled documentation for Gofer 2.30a seems outdated.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
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