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February 2004

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June 2004


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Installation

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Download and instructions for installation

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Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to -have a separate directory for imach. A classical installation for Windows is on Program Files\imach
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On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP)

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Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which +had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version +0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both +executables imach.exe and gnuplot.exe (the grapher +that we are using) have to be on the same directory. + +
In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach +extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking +on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with +the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).
+ + But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed + to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges. + +
+ Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install + the progam (usually in \Program Files\imach and will + modify the registry to associate .imach extension to notepad and imach, and a + second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you + will be able to install the programs in your home directory and + run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able + to use the facility of the right clicking.

  • Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.
  • @@ -103,6 +117,92 @@ have a separate directory for imach. A c href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm +
    +Imach version 0.97b of June 21 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file + +http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe. The IMaCh +program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want +(usually in Program Files). We made some errors in the new setup and +some erlier versions did not work. Please check the md5sum which is +3cb42bf71396d531d4bc3d42fee46a52 imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe + +
    We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful +but exists on most Windows installation.
    For people who are not +allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a +second setup imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe. + +

    Old Windows versions are accessible here. +

    On Mac OS/X

    + +IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as +XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.

    + +It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac +OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. The main problem resides in finding +the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is +png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and +you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now. + +
    +Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July +2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot. For sure if +X11 is installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD +or you can download it from the WEB), the you can do set ter +X11 and plot sin(x) to get a nice sin curve on an X11 +window of your Mac. + +
    Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't +need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only +to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will +be viewed by your browser.
    + +You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by +ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs +directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them +with a browser, + +

    +You can download a .pkg.pax file at imach097b.pkg.pax. Stuffit + Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just + clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local + directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created + bin and html . In the bin subdirectory you + will find two executables imach itself and + gnuplot. + +

    +You need to click on imach and IMaCh will be launched in a + terminal window, asking you to enter a parameter file. A + parameter file is text file with an extension .imach + (but you can use a .txt extension if you want. Among + the parameters required, a data file name has to be entered. It + can be a relative file name like + ../../data/data1.txt. It might also work if you use the + Windows backslash "\" syntax. +

    +At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to + disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "e" for + edit or "q" for quit. The edit command might not work + on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which + browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment + doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too. + +
    The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder + or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the + .html (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html + file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension + .imach is changed to .html. + +

    On Linux

    There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is +distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of +gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make +a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL +today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions +are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as +soon as all the problem will be GPL. +

    Click here to access to the detailed documentation

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    Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach
    -Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip -
    Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip -
    -Imach version 0.8 March 2002 can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip -
    -Imach version 0.8a May 2002 can be downloaded in zip file -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip -
    -Imach version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip - -
    -Imach version 0.97b of June 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file - -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe. The IMaCh -program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want -(usually in Program Files).

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    We set up a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can +

    There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can subscribe by sending a mail to imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr (and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr

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