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Actual Installation steps documented.
| * Download the ANSICON zip file (including the executables) from the | ||
| Releases page (https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon/releases) or | ||
| http://adoxa.altervista.org/ansicon/ or http://ansicon.adoxa.vze.com/ | ||
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I assume people reading the readme have already downloaded it; even if they're reading it online, the links are available elsewhere. In any event, vze is the url to use, in case something happens with altervista (but let's hope not).
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@adoxa can only speak from my experience, but not knowing GitHub it took me some time to figure out where to get the executables from.
| whenever you want to use it. | ||
| * Unzip the files into a directory such as C:\Program Files (x86)\ansicon\ | ||
| (for 32-bit OS) or into C:\Program Files\ansicon\ (for 64-bit OS). | ||
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I really don't like this, as it requires being administrator, which you haven't mentioned. Besides which, (x86) only exists on 64-bit systems, so a 32-bit system should still be installing to Program Files.
I've always assumed that anyone using ANSICON would already be familiar with the command line and would be familiar with how to install it. Given the issues that have come up, that would appear to be a false assumption.
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I think you're seeing the result of two things: 1) People having less and less understanding of the basics of the Command Prompt, so the READMEs have to have true step-by-step instructions. 2) The ongoing efforts of the Copy-and-Paste-Examples group to make it nearly brainless to get open source software up and running. This is my attempt to help move that forward on such a foundational piece of software like ANSICON.
Simplification for 32/64-bit differences.
Additional 32/64 bit differences eliminated.
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I've updated the README to fix my assumptions about the 32-bit environment's file paths for Program Files. |
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Here is a draft update for showing the full Installation steps. I hope this is helpful, but feel free to ignore it. : )