[m-rev.] diff: update dotnet documentation

[Tyson Dowd]

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README.DotNet:
	Update the documentation to deal with the fact that the .NET
	installation no longer sets the path and environment variables
	when it installs (so it can exist side-by-side with other
	versions).


Index: README.DotNet
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.DotNet,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 README.DotNet
--- README.DotNet	2001/05/04 10:21:12	1.3
+++ README.DotNet	2001/07/09 10:10:57
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@
 Common Language Runtime (CLR).  This port is very new, and the target
 platform is still in beta, so there are many unimplemented features.
 
-In addition the port is currently targetted at .NET Beta 2 SDK, which is not
-yet released as of the time of writing this documentation.  If you want to
-try out a version of Mercury which works with a released SDK (such as Beta 1)
-we recommend you try Mercury 0.10.x.
+In addition the port is currently targetted at .NET Beta 2 SDK.
 
 The Mercury compiler will generate code in Microsoft's Intermediate
 Language (IL) that can be assembled into bytecode suitable for running
@@ -18,12 +15,10 @@
 
 In order to try this system you will need 
 
-	- The Microsoft .NET Beta 2 SDK, see
+	- The Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 SDK, see
 		<http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/>
 	  to download.  If you are an MSDN Universal subscriber you can
 	  also order CDs as part of your subscription.
-	  (at the time of writing Beta 2 is unreleased, so this information
-	  may vary).
 
 	- A windows system suitable for development with Microsoft .NET
 	  (Windows 2000 is the most likely).  Microsoft advises not to
@@ -38,6 +33,17 @@
 	  Mercury still relies upon the Cygwin environment for
 	  development environment tools such as `mmake'.
 
+	- The Visual Studio 7.0 binaries must be in your path, and the
+	  appropriate environment variables must be set. 
+	  The easiest way to do this is to put the line
+
+call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
+	  
+	  into your cygwin.bat file (installed on the desktop by cygwin),
+	  after the line that says @echo off.
+	  Substitute your Visual Studio installation path for the default path
+	  given here.
+	  
 	- The Mercury distribution -- installed as usual.  Make sure
 	  the installation is run after the .NET SDK is installed (run
 	  it again if necessary) so that the configuration scripts


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