Visual Prolog 5.2 Development System (Personal Edition) 1. Purpose Visual Prolog is a complete programming environment based on the Prolog programming language. (Visual Prolog is the successor of TURBO Prolog and PDC Prolog). It contains everything needed for building large-scale commercial applications: complete graphical development environment, compiler, linker and debugger. Visual Prolog includes a large library with bindings to a range of APIs: Including Windows GUI, ODBC/OCI databases and Internet (sockets, ftp, http, cgi, etc). The development environment is written entirely in Visual Prolog, and contains a number of Code Experts and graphical editors for dialogs, menus, toolbars etc. Visual Prolog is very well suited for expert systems, planning and other AI related problems. Visual Prolog supports: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, OS/2 and some support for Linux and SCO UNIX. However, this shipment only supports Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, other versions are only available on CD (also freeware, but we charge a fee for handling) see below. 2. Digital Signature The installation program vip52pe.exe is digitally signed by Prolog Development Center A/S to ensure its integrity. You can validate this by inspecting the file properties in the explorer (right-click on the file and select properties). 3. Installation Run the program: vip52pe.exe 4. License and distribution conditions As stated in the license agreement, the restrictions of the Personal Edition are: You are permitted to: - use the Personal Edition at home for learning Visual Prolog. - use the Personal Edition at educational institutions for teaching and learning Visual Prolog. - make as many copies of the Visual Prolog Personal Edition as you wish; give unmodified copies of the Visual Prolog Personal Edition installation program to anyone; and distribute the Visual Prolog Personal Edition installation program in its unmodified form via electronic means. You are NOT permitted to: - distribute or give away any executables created with the Personal Edition. - use the Personal Edition for any (direct or indirect) commercial purpose. - remove or attempt to remove the Personal Edition banner from the Prolog system or any executable it creates. Additionally, free support is not provided for the Personal Edition. However, we strongly recomment using our discussion forum, if you have any problems or questions: http://discuss.visual-prolog.com/vip5.htm There are no technical or time restrictions, and the Personal Edition includes all features from the Visual Prolog Professional version. However, all executables made with the Personal Edition will start up with a banner saying that it has been produced with the non-commercial license. You can acquire the CD with the Personal Edition from PDC for a service fee. Also notice: you can buy the Visual Prolog Handbooks. https://secure.pdc.dk/viporder/order.htm 5. Contact to Prolog Development Center Prolog Development Center a/s H.J. Holstvej 3-5C DK-2605 Broendby Denmark mailto:sales@visual-prolog.com http://www.visual-prolog.com The personal edition is provided without support.