This is the INSTALL file for 'dat2dxf' version 0.8.3 24. November 2004
Compilation
dat2dxf is written in the C programming language on the platform Linux but it's likely to be compilable on other system, too. It uses the popt libary for options parsing. So you have to make sure you have libpopt and its developement headers installed (something like popt-devel in your packagemanager). To Compile dat2dxf simply run make in the unpacked source directory of dat2dxf.
Unpack the source archive:
tar -xzf dat2dxf-x.x.x.tar.gz
change into the source directory and run make:
cd dat2dxf-x.x.x make
USER installation
If you want to install dat2dxf as a user (not admin/root), copy the executable file 'dat2dxf' to your personal ~/bin directory.
SYSTEM installation
As root you can install dat2dxf system wide. Copy the executable file 'dat2dxf' to /usr/bin oder /usr/local/bin and make sure the place is the user's PATH variable.
have fun!
Michael Naef, cal<at>linu[dot]gs