QWICK ON THE ICAME CD ROM
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This is the second release of the QWICK program (which is also available on
the BNC sampler CD, published by Oxford University Computing Services).
With this distribution comes a pre-indexed version of the FLOB corpus, the
Freiburg version of LOB with 1991 data.  Each category is kept in a separate
sub-corpus, so that you can easily restrict your work to one or more genres.

Due to the corpus encoding format and time pressures it was not possible to
make full use of the tags provided in the original FLOB.  Thus you cannot
include any markup tags in the current release.  This might change for the
next release of the data.

Any updates to the software will always be posted on the QWICK website (see
below for the address).


INSTALLING QWICK ON YOUR COMPUTER
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1. Open the directory QWICK.

2. If your computer is running Windows95, install the Windows95 version of
   the Java runtime interpreter (double click on the file jre12-rc2-win32.exe).
   Accept all prompts and it will install the JRE in a place where Qwick
   expects to find it (provided your language is English, as it will be
   installed in the "Program Files" directory which has different names in
   different language versions of Windows). You can omit this step if you
   already have a Java Runtime Environment but in that case you may need to
   alter the BAT file used to run QWICK.
   If your computer has any other operating system (Solaris, Linux, Apple)
   you will have to get the Java Runtime Environment first (see below).

3. Copy the directory QWICK and all of its components to your hard disk
  
4. Execute the file QWICK.BAT (you should be able to double click on it
   under Windows 95, or you can create a shortcut for easier use).  You
   might want to edit it to check that the pathnames used in that file
   are all correct.

The online documentation can be found in the subdirectory qwick-1.01/doc/
and the file index.html.

Installing QWICK on other Platforms

QWICK will run on any platform which provides a JAVA Runtime Environment
It has been tested under Windows95 and Solaris 6. Current runtime interpreters
for those platforms are included on this disk. 

Current versions of the Macintosh JRE are available from the Apple website
at http://www.apple.com.

A version of the run-time environment running on Linux should be available
at http://www.blackdown.org.

Any further information on installing QWICK, together with updates and bug
fixes, can be found on the QWICK website at http://www.clg.bham.ac.uk/QWICK.


I am grateful to Knut Hofland for giving me the opportunity to include QWICK
on this CD, Lou Burnard for his help in preparing the initial release, and
Joanna Mason for writing the user documentation. 

QWICK is copyright (C) 1998 by The University of Birmingham and Oliver Mason.

The QWICK program internally makes use of a library called CUE. 
CUE is Copyright (C) 1997 by The University of Birmingham and Oliver
Mason for versions beyond 1.0, and Copyright (C) 1997 The University of
Birmingham, Oliver Mason and John Sinclair up to and including
version 1.0

For further details consult the licence.html file in the qwick-1.01/doc
directory.

