February 2004
+June 2004
Main publication concerning the method is -Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies -from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248 +
Main publication concerning the method is +Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies +from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248
-Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
-have a separate directory for 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.
This software have been partly granted by Euro-REVES, a concerted -action from the European Union. Our work is copyrighted as -a GNU software product, i.e. program and software -can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but actually some sources are -not widely distributed today because they borrow some code from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our source by asking us with -a simple justification (name, email, Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr
+href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES, a concerted action +from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the +French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU +software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely +for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely +distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book +"Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of +theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple +justification (name, email, Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr + -Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. +
Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS +server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have +replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with +equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
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.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-08a.zip
-Imach latest 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 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.
New (March 2002). We set up 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 +
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
+