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Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:13:41 +0000 (GMT) |
Dear Dr. Langton,
Apologies for e-mailing you with a probably very obvious question, and for
e-mailing you during the festive season.
You will not be surprised to learn that the question that I have is SWARM
related. I am an economist with an IT background in a previous life, and
am trying to learn SWARM, and use it as the vehicle for my PhD at City
University, London. I intend to use it in my are of research, which is
long-term growth and de-industrialisation. I am dissatisfied with the
current models of economic growth, and believe that the future of
economic analysis lies in artificial intelligence and virtual world
simulation. Hence the question.
I have downloaded the tutorial in .pdf format - 'tutorial.pdf', and have
had a good go at trying to solve the problem, but so far with no success.
I have installed the latest edition of SWARM on an NT platform via the
Cygwin simulator. I have been using the SWARM bash shell.
OK, now for the question. On page 6 of the tutorial, under the heading
'Makefile', there are a number of lines to enter:
SWARMHOME=/net/........and so on.
When I get to the line starting 'include....', after pressing <return I
get the following errror message:
bash.exe: include: command not found
address@hidden _
where 'ECONOMIST' is of course the name of my machine, and the underscore
is the flashing cursor.
QUESTION : What is going wrong, other than the obvious, that the shell
does not find the program 'include'?
QUESTION : Is there something that I should have done before this stage?
Your comments and advice would be very much appreciated on this, as I have
spent a day trying to get past this stage.
In case you are wondering, my programming backgroud is in BASIC, PASCAL
and COBOL. But I am more used to a windows type environment than a prompt
environment.
Yours sincerely, and wishing you a happy new year,
John Langley,
City University,
London.
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