How to nicely set up surphadia, metadise , etc ...
under Windows

(maintained by Arnaud Marmier, last updated 08/06/04)

A step by step explanation which does assume you have some basic knowledge of windows
(Instructions for windows 2000)

1 Check that the \bin directory is in your path

  1. Start/Settings/Control Panel/System
  2. Click on 'Advanced' tab
  3. click on 'Environment variable' button
  4. Find 'Path' in 'System Variable' window, Edit
  5. check that 'Variable Value' contains: 'C:\bin' 
  6. If it doesn't, add the following at its end: ';C:\bin'
Also check (with explorer for instance), that there is a C:\bin directory. If not, create it.

2 Place the exec and bat in the \bin

Case 1: you have downloaded a .zip file.

extract surphadia.exe and surphadia.bat in C:\bin

Case 2: you have compiled your own version

  1. place surphadia.exe in C:\bin
  2. create a new file, surphadia.bat, and fill if with :
copy %1 input.txt
c:\bin\surphadia.exe

3 Associate a surphadia option to the .txt file type

  1. Open windows explorer
  2. Tools/Folder Options
  3. 'File Types' tab
  4. Find the TXT extension in the 'Registered files Type' window, click on it
  5. 'Advanced' button
  6. 'New' button
  7. Type surphadia in 'Action' 
  8. 'Browse' button, find C:\bin\surphadia.bat, 'OK' button
Now, when you right click on a .txt file in explorer, you will be given the option to process it as a surphadia input.