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This is the readme file of the "perl" sudoku program

The tar archive contains a directory named "sudoku" in which the following files:

1. sudoku.pl the perl program.
2. sudoku.6 program documentation/help in the form of a

   category 6 (games) "man" page. (used on Linux/Unix).

3. sudoku.txt the program documentation in plain text format

   for use with Windows.

4. README.txt This readme file you are looking at.
5. sudoku_puzzle Example puzzle that can be loaded into the program.
6. sudoku_solution The same puzzle, solved by the program. Can be

   loaded into the program too.

7. sudoku_test.txt A solving log file which includes the first 10

   solutions.

Place the tar archive in your home directory and unzip and unpack it with the following command:

tar -xz < sudoku-perl-x.y.tar.gz (where x.y is release number e.g. 1.45)

this will create the directory sudoku in which the above files. (on windows use a unzip program that reads tar files for instance 7-zip)

For compatibility with Windows, all lines in text files in the tar archive have the crlf (carriage return character (x015) followed by linefeed character (x010)) For Linux this is not a problem.

Environment

       This program needs Perl to be installed  on  the  machine.
       The  program  was  written  on  a Linux machine using Perl
       v5.6.1.  
       When testing for release 1.0, it was ported to a Windows 95 
       machine having perl 5.6.1 from  ActiveState and run from a
       "DOS" screen. 
       I expect it to run on other windows releases too. Also I hope 
       it will run on a Unix machine.
       However, starting from release 1.41, the windows support is 
       delivered "as is", because it is no longer possible to test 
       in a windows environment (harddisk crash)
       CPAN prerequisites, if not present in your installation of
       perl the following modules from CPAN  must  be  installed:
       (using the CPAN (linux) or PPM (W32) update install programs) 
       (CPAN -> Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)
       TERM::ANSIScreen
       for Windows are needed from CPAN, on top of this:
       Win32::Console
              and
       Win32::Console::ANSI