--- imach/src/README.txt 2018/02/21 07:58:13 1.5 +++ imach/src/README.txt 2018/04/20 17:18:27 1.6 @@ -42,34 +42,39 @@ file which is also a text file. Even if it is command line program, most operating systems offer simplifications of use: -- On Windows, you can click on the imach.exe -icon (which opens a DOS window) and drag your parameter file into the -DOS windows and enter return. But with the newly installable version -(>0.97) you can use the right click (once your mouse cursor is on an -foo.imach file) to either edit the parameter file (with wordpad) or +- On Windows, you can click on the imach.exe icon (which opens a DOS +window) and drag your parameter file into the DOS windows and enter +return. You can use the right click (once your mouse cursor is on an +foo.imach file) to either edit the parameter file (with notepad) or execute this parameter file via imach. At the end of the run, your are asked to enter a character and the terminal will not disappear. -- On OSX, you can click on the IMaCh application and terminal will be - open: either type in the name and path of your parameter file or +- On OSX, you can click on the IMaCh application and a terminal window will be + opened: either type in the name and path of your parameter file or drag it from the finder. -The output of your run is a lot of text files which are grouped into a -sub-directory having the name of your parameter file as well as an -other text file foo.gp which is a gnuplot file. This gnuplot is run by -imach and creates a lot of graphs from the various results text files. -An other important file named foo.htm can be opened by your browser -and it will display various hyperlinks to most of your results as well -as your graphs. - -You can edit this file, customize it at your will and run it to get -additional figures or modified figures to be published. Just click on -gnuplot.exe and type "load foo.gp" for example. +The output of your run consists in many text files which are grouped +into a sub-directory having the same name as of your parameter +filename 'foo'. In addition, you will find two other important files +on the same directory as your parameter file: + +-1- a text file named 'foo.gp' which is a gnuplot file. This gnuplot +is automatically runned by imach in order to create the graphs from +the various result text files. + +You can edit this gnuplot file, customize it at your will and run it +to get additional figures or modified figures to be published. Just +click on gnuplot executable and type "load foo.gp" for example. Gnuplot is a well known grapher under the GPL license too. As it is changing often, the OS/X and Windows installers are providing binaries for gnuplot 2.6.5. +-2- a text file named 'foo.htm' which is an html file. It can be +opened by your browser and it will display various hyperlinks to most +of your results as well as your graphs. + + Since the era of 64bit processors and their wide use on OS/X and Windows 7, 8 or 10, we discovered that our usual GNU compiler were not efficient on Windows 64 and current binaries are compiled with the