This is Coq Version 5.8.3, the Calculus of Inductive Constructions in Caml-Light. The official distribution of Coq V5.8 is available from ftp.inria.fr:INRIA/coq/V5.8.3 To run Coq, you need a system with: - a C compiler (required), - a X library (libX11.a) and its includes (/usr/include/X11) (optional). - the Caml-Light system, version 0.5 or version 0.6. - the CAML-Light UNIX compatibility library (contrib/libunix) (this is NOT optional!) If you do not have Caml-Light, you can get it from ftp.inria.fr:lang/caml-light. To install, read the file INSTALL. If you encounter problems, please contact the Coq hotline (coq@pauillac.inria.fr). The binaries for sun4 are provided, but you will still need to manually edit the "coql" script, as indicated in INSTALL. If you have a problem with running Coq after it is built, please verify that the environment variable ARCH is set to your architecture, e.g. "sun4" for sparcs, "alpha" for a DEC Alpha. Directories: - SRC The Constructions source code - LIB Various utility libraries of CAML-Light code - RELEASED a tree of symlinks to executables for various architectures ONLY the sun4 executables are provided - for the others, please do a build, as specified in the file INSTALL. - THEORIES library of Coq Vernacular scripts - DOC The Coq User's Guide, in dvi and ps formats - MAC The directory containing a binary-only BinHex'd CompactPro archive of Coq V5.8 for the Macintosh Files: - coql shell to execute Coq (released version) The paper version of the Coq User's Guide may be ordered from INRIA as Rapport Technique No 154, Mai 1993.