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Yorick Release Notes

These are generic release notes for yorick-1.6. You can browse the complete online documentation for yorick by clicking Home in the navigation bar to the left.

The most frequent yorick feature request is command line recall. I urge you to run yorick under emacs, which provides a powerful development environment, in addition to command line recall and editing. Even if you do not use emacs for any other purpose, it is worth using it to run yorick. To do this, add the line

(load "/usr/gapps/yorick/yorick" t t)
to the file ~/.emacs (creating the file if you don't have one). You can then start emacs and type M-x yorick RET (M-x means holding down the meta key - either Alt or Windows on most keyboards) to start yorick. Alternatively, you can start emacs using this shell command line, if you do not want to bother with ~/.emacs:
emacs -l /path/to/yorick-1.6-02/yorick -f yorick &
(Replace "/path/to/yorick-1.6-02" by the actual location of the directory containing yorick.el on your system.) You can type in the resulting window as if it were a terminal, except that the up and down arrows recall previous lines for you to edit and resend.

To do a fairly comprehensive test of yorick, start it and type:

  #include "testfull.i"
in response to the > prompt. You can also run, read, and study the five demo files, demo1.i through demo5.i. For example,
  #include "demo1.i"
  demo1       // run the demo (don't type the // and comment)
  help,demo1
At the end of the help message is a file and line number. If you are running yorick under emacs, type ESC ? to open an editing window positioned on that line.

The gist program is a binary CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) browser. If you do not know what that means, you do not want to use it. Even if you do know what that means, you are probably making a mistake to use CGM files.