[m-dev.] mention mmc name clash in README.MS-Windows

[Fergus Henderson]

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README.MS-Windows:
bindist/bindist.README.MS-Windows:
	Mention that we've ported to Windows 2000.
	Modify the documentation to warn about the problems that
	can arise from the mmc name clashing with the
	"Microsoft Management Console" on Windows 2000.

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Index: README.MS-Windows
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MS-Windows,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -d -r1.15 README.MS-Windows
--- README.MS-Windows	1999/07/20 21:29:36	1.15
+++ README.MS-Windows	1999/12/14 08:12:29
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
-Mercury has been ported to Windows 95 and Windows NT using the "Cygwin"
+Mercury has been ported to Windows using the "Cygwin"
 (formerly also known as "Cygwin32" and "gnu-win32") Unix emulation
-package from Cygnus.  It should work on Windows 98 too, but we haven't
-tested that.
+package from Cygnus.  We've tested the port on Windows 2000,
+but it should work on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT too.
 
 This file documents how to build the source distribution
 of Mercury on Windows using Cygwin.
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@
 	sh configure
 
 as described in the INSTALL file.
+On Windows 2000, it may start up the "Microsoft Management Console"
+program (the autoconfiguration process looks for a program named "mmc").
+If so, just close that application, e.g. by selecting "Exit" from
+the "Console" menu.
 
 Reportedly running configure sometimes results in permission errors,
 but apparently the errors go away if you run configure a second time.
@@ -102,6 +106,9 @@
 
 Once you've finished installing, you need to add the appropriate
 directory, normally /usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/bin, to your PATH. 
+On Windows 2000, you need to make sure that this directory precedes
+the Windows system directory in the PATH, otherwise `mmc' will invoke the
+Microsoft Management Console rather than the Melbourne Mercury Compiler.
 
 You should be able to read the HTML version of the Mercury
 documentation, which by default gets installed in
Index: bindist/bindist.README.MS-Windows
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/bindist/bindist.README.MS-Windows,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -d -r1.6 bindist.README.MS-Windows
--- bindist/bindist.README.MS-Windows	1999/03/13 01:03:11	1.6
+++ bindist/bindist.README.MS-Windows	1999/12/14 08:16:27
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
-Mecury has been ported to Windows 95 and Windows NT
-using the "Cygwin" Unix emulation package from Cygnus.
-It should work on Windows 98 too, but we haven't tested that.
+Mercury has been ported to Windows using the "Cygwin"
+(formerly also known as "Cygwin32" and "gnu-win32") Unix emulation
+package from Cygnus.  We've tested the port on Windows 2000,
+but it should work on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT too.
 
 This file documents how to install the binary distribution
 of Mercury on Windows using Cygwin.
@@ -57,6 +58,9 @@
 
 Once you've finished installing, you need to add the appropriate
 directory, normally /usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/bin, to your PATH. 
+On Windows 2000, you need to make sure that this directory precedes
+the Windows system directory in the PATH, otherwise `mmc' will invoke the
+Microsoft Management Console rather than the Melbourne Mercury Compiler.
 
 You should be able to read the HTML version of the Mercury
 documentation, which by default gets installed in the directory

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