Stand-Up
Installation



Installing Java

Stand-Up is a Java program. Java is a very popular programming language, whose goal is to enable people to write software which will run on almost any computer.

Needless to say, the people at Microsoft don't want you to be able to run software on any computer. They want you to run software which runs on their computer. But that's OK, it's easy to set up your computer to run Java programs too.

You need to download and install the Java Runtime Environment, the JRE. You need version 1.2, 1.3, or anything more modern. You can download this from the Java Website. More specifically, here's a link to the Java 1.3 download page. Grab the version appropriate for your operating system.

Install this, and then go on to the next step:


Installing Stand-Up

Head to the Stand-Up Home Page and download the latest version of Stand-Up. For Windows users, there's a self-extracting EXE. For everybody else, there's a ZIP file. Yep, I know you Linux guys would prefer TAR/GZ, but heck, all Linux boxes come with ZIP nowdays.

Extract the contents into a handy directory, e.g. on Windows,

"C:\Program Files\Standup"
or under a Unix,
"/usr/local/standup"
or something similar.

Under Windows, you can then just click on the "standup.jar" file, and Stand-Up should start. You should see a splash screen appear for a second or two, and then Stand-Up will almost certainly present you with a File Dialog, asking you where it should find your Index File.

You are now ready to proceed with the Tutorial.


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