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
@@ -116,6 +117,93 @@ the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnup
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. +
+
+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
@@ -139,36 +227,6 @@ 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 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.
There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can @@ -177,11 +235,23 @@ href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes (and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr
-