Readme.txt for WinZip compressed file ales_en.zip
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This is the English-only version of the ALES computer program,
available via anonymous FTP at the ALES web site:

	http://wwwscas.cit.cornell.edu/landeval/ales/ales.htm

Or, you can follow the ALES link at:

	http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter

There is another version with four languages (English, French,
Spanish, Indonesian) at the same site.

Also at that site is the ALES User's Manual as a PDF file.

ALES is a MS-DOS program; here we assume you are running it under
MS-Windows.
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Installation:

The zip file is a compressed version of the installed program,
complete with folder structure.  It was compressed with WinZip and
should be decompressed with this same program, available at
http://www.winzip.com/ and many shareware sites.

1. Unzip the file *using folder names* to C:\ (the root)

	>> If you want to install it elsewhere, you will have to modify
		the file mumps.dbd accordingly after unpacking, as explained
		in the User's Manual, Chapter 5

2. In a DOS window (or full screen, if you wish):
	2.1 >CD c:\dtm
	2.2 >ales                  (or one of the other batch commands)

You will probably be asked for a PaperKey when first starting ALES.
If you have a PaperKey, enter it here.  It looks like this:

PaperKey: 746-112 U1 J4 L1 X3 V137234
Suppler: DATATREE INC
User: CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCAS

You *must* include spaces and punctuation *exactly* as given.

If you do not have a PaperKey, you can just wait for a while and the
program should start anyway.  To obtain a PaperKey, contact the ALES
project via the Web page mentioned above.