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Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system can install the
self-extracting Asymptote executable asymptote-install-x.xx.exe.
The recommended installation directory is c:\Program Files\Asymptote.
If you wish to install Asymptote in another directory, say
d:\Asymptote, you can tell Asymptote where to find
plain.asy and its other base modules by creating a file
config.asy in a new folder %USERPROFILE%\.asy (by
default this means C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\.asy,
where %USERNAME% denotes your user name) containing the lines
import settings; dir="d:\Asymptote";
A working TeX implementation (such as the one available at
http://www.miktex.org) will be required to typeset labels.
The Python interpretor from http://www.python.org is only required
if you wish to try out the graphical user interface (see GUI).
Example code will be installed by default in
c:\Program Files\Asymptote\examples.