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r70 r80 7 7 <FONT SIZE=+2>Installation notes for GSAS with the EXPGUI GUI for Windows-95 8 8 and -NT</FONT></H1> 9 <FONT SIZE=+0>Note that this is experimental software and these instructions 10 have gotten only minimal testing. Report problems to 11 <A HREF="mailto:brian.toby@nist.gov">Brian Toby</A></FONT> 12 9 <EM>Please note that EXPGUI is still under development and gets less testing by the author 10 in Windows than in UNIX. Please report problems, including comments on 11 these instructions to 12 <A HREF="mailto:brian.toby@nist.gov">Brian Toby</A> 13 </EM> 13 14 <P><B>1. Download the following files:</B> 14 15 <UL> 16 Shift-click on the links below to download the files. 17 <P> 15 18 <LI> 16 19 <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/win/gsaskit_Jan98.exe">ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/win/gsaskit_Jan98.exe</A> … … 23 26 <LI> 24 27 <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/expgui.exe">ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/expgui.exe</A> 25 (~300 K bytes) 28 (~340 K bytes) 29 <LI> 30 Optionally download the TCLDUMP program to speed and enhance liveplot, 31 <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/exe_win/tcldump.zip">ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/exe_win/tcldump.zip</A> (~85 K bytes) 32 <BR> 33 or <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/exe_win/tcldump.exe">ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/exe_win/tcldump.exe</A> (~160 K bytes) 26 34 <P> 27 35 If you want to try the absolute latest release (which may not have gotten 28 36 a lot of testing, but probably has new capabilities and bug fixes) shift-click 29 37 on <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/expgui_alpha.zip"> 30 ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/expgui_alpha.zip</A> in place of31 the expgui.exe file. You will need an unzip programto use this file.38 ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/bt1/gsas/expgui_alpha.zip</A> (~320 K bytes) in place of 39 the above expgui.exe file. You will need an unzip program, such as WinZip or pkZip, to use this file. 32 40 </LI> 33 41 </UL> 34 You can put these .EXE files anywhere on your computer, but make a note of the42 You can put these .EXE (and .ZIP) files anywhere on your computer, but make a note of the 35 43 locations for steps 2 and 4, below. 36 44 … … 39 47 tcltk80p2+.exe, and expgui.exe (the order should not matter). 40 48 [N.B. If using expgui_alpha.zip uncompress with a tool such as WinZip 41 into c: /gsas/expgui]49 into c:\gsas\expgui] 42 50 43 51 This will cause the files to be unpacked. The default 44 52 locations for installation are: 45 <P> gsaskit_Jan98.exe 46 c:/gsas 47 <BR> 48 tcltk80p2+.exe 49 c:/expgui 50 <BR> 51 expgui.exe 52 c:/gsas/expgui 53 <PRE> 54 gsaskit_Jan98.exe c:\gsas 55 tcltk80p2+.exe c:\expgui 56 expgui.exe c:\gsas\expgui 57 </PRE> 53 58 54 59 <P>These files can be located on other disks and in directories with 55 other names, but the expgui .exe files60 other names, but the expgui files in expgui.exe 56 61 <I><U>must</U></I> be located in a subdirectory of the GSAS files. 57 62 If these files will be located on a fileserver, the file server 58 63 must be mapped to appear as a disk drive (must be assigned a name 59 64 such as F:). 65 <P> 66 If you are installing TCLDUMP, place the tcldump.exe file in the exe directory of GSAS, 67 (usually c:\gsas\exe\). If you downloaded tcldump.zip, expand it first. 60 68 </UL> 61 69 <P><B>3. Create a shortcut:</B> … … 87 95 <UL>You may want to modify the shortcut by modifying the properties to 88 96 change the icon or the default properties.</UL> 89 <B>4. Delete the downloaded .exe files to save space (optional)</B>97 <B>4. Delete the downloaded .exe (and .zip) files to save space (optional)</B> 90 98 91 <P> gsaskit_Jan98.exe 92 <BR> tcltk80p2+.exe 93 <BR> expgui.exe 94 <BR> 99 <DL> 100 <DD> gsaskit_Jan98.exe 101 <DD> tcltk80p2+.exe 102 <DD> expgui.exe 103 <DD> (tcldump.zip) 104 <DD> (expgui_alpha.zip) 105 </DL> 95 106 96 107 <P>More information about EXPGUI, including information on how it … … 98 109 and <A HREF="http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/~toby/expgui/expgui_cfg.html">expgui_cfg.html</A>, 99 110 found in the \gsas\expgui\doc directory. 100 <BR> 111 <BR> 101 112 <H2> 102 113 Questions</H2> … … 109 120 obviously a "power user" so take a look at the pkgIndex.tcl files and fix 110 121 your version appropriately. 111 <BR> </UL>122 <BR> </UL> 112 123 2. Do I need to modify the PATH, etc in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file? 113 124 <UL>Only if you will use the PC-GSAS or GSAS.BAT menu programs as well. 114 125 If so, do the following (from the GSAS readme file): 115 <BR> 126 <BR> 116 127 <UL><TT>5. Modify the PATH statement in your autoexec.bat file to add C:\GSAS\EXE 117 128 to the path (or whatever disk letter you choose for \GSAS)</TT> … … 127 138 3. What versions of Windows can I use? 128 139 <UL>This package has gotten some testing under Win95 and WinNT v4.0. 129 My limited experience to Win98 seems to show that EXPGUI seems to 130 run OK there. 131 I would not expect this to run under Win32s on Win3.1. 140 My limited experience with Win98 seems to show that EXPGUI runs OK. 141 It might be possible to get some parts of the package to run under Win32s on Win3.1, but 142 don't ask me for help. 143 </UL> 144 4. EXPGUI seems pretty slow, or is it my imagination? 145 <UL> 146 Well, actually the problem is Windows. EXPGUI is pretty zippy in LINUX, but some operations 147 (reading a histogram in liveplot for example) can take 3-5 times longer in Windows than in UNIX. 132 148 </UL> 133 149
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