Please open the file index.html in any graphical web browser and
start by clicking on the link "How to explore the contents of the CD".

If you do not have access to a web browser, you may explore the
examples as follows:

1. Make sure you have Java, version 1.4.2 or later, being installed
on your system.

2. Copy the file examples/treebag.jar to a place on your local file
system that suits you. This is the archive containing the compiled
TREEBAG classes. (If you prefer not to copy TREEBAG to your hard disk,
you may skip this step and use the copy on the CD in the following
steps.)

3. Suppose you have copied the TREEBAG archive to myPath/treebag.jar.
You can then start TREEBAG using the command

    java -jar myPath/treebag.jar [<worksheet>]
    
where the last argument is optional and should, if present, be the
file name of the TREEBAG worksheet to be opened. Under Windows, you
may prefer to substitute <code>javaw</code> for <code>java</code> in
order to suppress the console window which the former opens (and you
should use '\' instead of '/' in your paths).

4. To avoid running out of stack or memory space, it is advisable to
start the Java interpreter using the options -Xss and -Xmx, e.g.,
-Xss8m (8MB stack space) and -Xmx800m (800MB memory limit). This would
turn the basic command displayed above into

    java -Xss8m -Xmx800m -jar myPath/treebag.jar [<worksheet>].

For convenience, you may define a small command called treebag or the
like, which takes one optional argument and acts as an abbreviation
for the command above. The way in which such a command can be defined
(e.g., as a shell script under Unix, Linux, or Mac OS X) depends of
course on the operation system used.

5. Once you have installed TREEBAG as an application, you may also
wish to copy the examples from the CD to some place on your local
hard disk so that you can modify them as you wish. They are found
in the directory examples/worksheets on the CD. Alternatively, you
may unpack the file worksheets.zip from the CD, which contains an
exact copy of that directory, in a location of your choice.