Populus Readme

The current Populus edition is 3.4. There are two different versions of the
program. The "protected-mode" version is for use on machines with a 286 or
later microprocessor and a minimum of 2 MB RAM. It is compressed in a
self-extracting file, pop34p.exe. The "real-mode" version of Populus will
run on any Intel-based computer, including the XT class with an 8088 chip. It
is compressed in the file pop34r.exe. Choose the protected-mode version if
your machinery suffices, or get both if some of your students have older
machines.

To download a copy of Populus, you will need a computer with internet access,
and a communications package that supports FTP. Type <ftp ecolo-
gy.ecology.umn.edu> (without the inequality signs <> that I will use as
delimiters). Our machine will wake up and ask for your user name. Type
<anonymous>. Then we will ask for your password. Type your full email
address; if you type your address incorrectly my attempts to notify you of new
postings will fail, and you will automatically be deleted from the update list.
Our machine will then let you on with a welcome message. Next, you type
<cd /pub/populus> to change into the populus directory.

Execute a binary-mode transfer (type "bin<enter>" before typing the command
"get pop34p.exe" or "get pop34r.exe") to download the file. After receiving
Populus, place it in a directory with 2MB of free disk space and type
"pop34p" (or "pop34r") to extract the Populus files. Check the file sizes
listed in read.me to make sure that your transfer has been successful. Note
that real-mode file names have been altered to distinguish the versions; to
start the real-mode version, type "populusr." When you give the program to
students or colleagues, please pass the entire set of files, or the single
compressed version.

Don Alstad, St. Paul, February 1994
dna@ecology.ecology.umn.edu