Preliminary Open Source Distribution of the E Distributed Programming Language To install on Win95: Unzip e.zip into C:\e Run C:\e\Setup.bat This will install the EBash icon in your start menu "Programs\erights.org". Find and launch this icon. It is a GNU bash shell with the environment set up for running E. In this shell, you can type: 1) "e" to run the E interpreter interactively 2) "e filename args..." to interpret an E program. Alternatively, you can put "#!/bin/e" at the top of your E program, in which case you can just say "filename args..." 3) "elmer" to use a swing-based gui interface to the E interpreter. Try typing "? 2 + 3" and hitting return. Elmer acts like a normal Notepad-like text editor until you begin a line with a question mark (E's prompt). Lines beginning with a question mark are special, as are lines beginning with a ">" that come after a special line. Hitting return on a special line invokes the E interpreter, much as typing "e" to EBash does. See C:\e\src\doc\e\Vector.updoc for more.