For testing the TXSTEP version July 2014 under Windows, proceed as follows: 1. Installing TUSTEP - Download TUSTEP 2014 from the tustep homepage www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de - install TUSTEP 2014 by following the instructions. This will create a TUSTEP icon under "start" - "programs" Clicking on this icon will allow you to define start icons for TUSTEP sessions. - define a start icon for a TUSTEP session by clicking on the above mentioned TUSTEP icon and fill in the required fields. Under TUSTEP_DSK, you will be asked to enter a path name, e.g. c:\users\projects Fill in there the name of the path where you want TXSTEP to be installed. Under TUSTEP_PRJ, you will be asked to enter a project name. Fill in there "txstep" (without quotation marks). Under TUSTEP_MEM, give a unique 3-digit number for this session (e.g. 147) By clicking to "Einrichten", a start icon for this TUSTEP session will be created on your desktop. 2. Installing TXSTEP - Download TXSTEP from the tustep homepage. - unzip the file txstep_1407.zip to the directory which you specified for TUSTEP_DSK when defining the TUSTEP session mentioned above. - Start a TUSTEP session by clicking at the session icon which has been created when defining the respective TUSTEP session - At the right of "Gib Kommando >" give the following commands: #anmelde, txstep*txstep_inst (and press ENTER) #$?$txstep*txstep_inst (and press ENTER) This creates the files txstep.bat and log.bat in the directory txstep which has been created when unzipping txstep_1407.zip, and adjusts the path names for the files used in the exercises. 3. Running TXSTEP In the Oxygen-Editor: create buttons for running a TXSTEP script and for showing the log file: "tools" "external tools" "preferences" "new" fill in the following fields: - field "Name:" txstep - field "Description:" start the txstep script - field "Command line:" c:\txstep\txstep.bat ${cf} (for "c:", give the path name specified for TUSTEP_DSK, see above) click "OK" "new" - field "Name:" txstep.logfile - field "Description:" show the log file - field "Command line:" c:\txstep\log.bat (for "c:", give the path name specified for TUSTEP_DSK, see above) click "OK" If Oxygen is not available, you may run the TXSTEP script as follows (for "c:", give the path name specified for TUSTEP_DSK, as described above, and replace "xxx.xml" by the name of the TXSTEP script you want to run): - activate the Windows "START" button, chose "execute", fill in "c:\txstep\txstep.bat c:\txstep\scripts\xxx.xml" press enter or "ok" or - in a DOS command prompt window: c:\txstep\txstep c:\txstep\scripts\xxx.xml or - in a TUSTEP session, give the following command: #makro $$ execute "c:\txstep\txstep.bat c:\txstep\scripts\xxx.xml" *eof