February 2004
+June 2004
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
+
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.
Old Windows versions are accessible here. +
+
+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.
If you open a new
+finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh
+Window that you just created.
+
+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.
+
+
Click here to access to the detailed documentation
@@ -126,37 +227,36 @@ equivalent routines from the new GNU sciLatest 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).
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
+