About this Guide

The Installation Guide contains complete instructions for installing Panther and for setting up the initial configuration on machines for the supported platforms. It also discusses system requirements, contents of the installation package, licensing, and linking in databases.

The guide assumes that the person doing the installation is a system administrator or someone familiar with UNIX and Windows operating systems.

Organization of this Guide

This guide includes the following information:

`Pre-installation information — An overview of application architectures, the Prolifics components which make up Panther, and requirements and procedures necessary to install Panther.

`Installation instructions — Installing Prolifics software components on UNIX and Windows systems.

`Post-installation notes — Instructions on verifying installation and configura- tion, how to install the licensing software, creating new Prolifics executables for your installation, and information about sample applications distributed with Panther.

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