Windows Notes

• The file name arguments to splfr and spld should not have embedded spaces. For file names with spaces, you can use the corresponding short file name.
• Windows 95/98/ME: The shortcut installed in the Start menu (e.g. Start\Programs\SICStus Prolog 3.11.1) may not work immediately after installation. Restarting after installing SICStus appears to cure this. If this does not help, you can add your own shortcut to e.g. C:\Program Files\SICStus Prolog 3.11.1\bin\spwin.exe.
• Selecting the Manual or Release Notes item in the Help menu may give an error message similar to ... \!Help\100#!Manual.lnk could not be found. This happens when Adobe Acrobat Reader is not installed or if it has not been installed for the current user. Open C:\Program Files\SICStus Prolog 3.11.1\doc\pdf\ in the explorer and try opening relnotes.pdf. If this brings up a configuration dialog for Adobe Acrobat, configure Acrobat and try the Help menu again. Alternatively, you may have to obtain Adobe Acrobat. It is available for free from http://www.adobe.com/.
• Windows NT, 2000 and later: We recommend that SICStus be installed by a user with administrative privileges and that the installation is made For All Users.

  If SICStus is installed for a single user, then SICStus will not find the license information when started by another user. In this case, the windowed version of SICStus (spwin) will put up a dialog where a license can be entered.

• The first time the installer is run, it will install necessary system files for supporting the new Windows Installer technology from Microsoft. This will fail unless the user has administrative rights. A typical symptom is an error message asking for msiexec. The Windows Installer technology is already part of Windows 2000 and later.