Congratulations =============== you hold an extremely cheap and extremely powerful processor for experimental data analysis. The program is called and it is available for any Amiga as well as for MS-DOS and UNIX machines. Requests for ports to other systems may be requested from the author. Getting started =============== First of all you must install to your system. A useable enviroment might be installed on a floppy disk easily, but I would recommend a HardDisk. If you double-click the icon and accept all defaults (which is assumed in this file) you'll get a running installation in any case. Expert users may change the installation process to the most possible extend, but will have to know what they are doing. NOTE: if you do not have the program, which is part of the new Amiga OS and free software from Commodore Inc., double clicking the icon will lead to an error. You will have to install the package yourself then or if you're not familiar with such installations, get the software from Commodore Inc. runs with OS 1.3 and higher. If you are new to and Computers, this will be a great deal of work. If you are familiar with and , there should be no problem. Simply `cd' the directory you've installed to and type: "DataProc demo" At the beginning you will be asked which language you prefer. All texts in the demo will be in the language you select. Note that on Amigas you won't be asked for a language. DataProc checks locale.library for the phone code and estimates your preferred language from that. If you run OS 2.05 or lower and thus have no locale.library, replace the first #if -Amiga line in "demo.tst" by #if 10 and you are asked for your preferred language. It should run the same from then on. If you do not know how to `cd' a directory, you have hopefully installed the icon. So click through your drawers to the drawer you have installed to and double-click the "DataProc" icon. It looks like the "Shell" icon in your main partition. If you do not have installed, answer "N" to the question will ask you about that - unfortunately you will miss several pretty plots. If you got through the demo and have installed, you might watch another demo by typing "DataProc v15" NOTE: This demo won't run without a proper installation of . and are both free software being available on any good FTP site and on some FIDO FReq places. You may contact me, if you don't know how to get those packages. Further note that v15.tst and its associated files are mainly in the state I wrote them for my physics practice - meaning made for the Amiga and in German. They should however run on MS-DOS machines as well. After you're done with the demos - or if you're already familiar with , click into the "Docs" drawer. This should be located where itself is located, if you did not install it elsewhere. Double-click the "DataProc.guide" icon to view the AmigaGuideŠ hypertext documentation for . This assumes that you have installed on your system. Don't worry, if you have an operating system (WorkBench) version higher than 2.1. In any other case get the package, which meanwhile became free software, too. If you can't get , you may contact me. Finally try to read the demo files "demo.tst" and "v15.tst" together with the manual to get the feel for scripts. I'm going to put this into a tutorial during the next releases. Now you should be ready to write your own scripts. NOTE: Don't try to understand deeply what is done in the demos, just how it is done. The first demo is the analysis of an experiment with weired circuits using operational amplifiers. So you won't have a real chance to understand it. The second one analyzes an experiment to proove the violation of parity in beta decay using `Mott-scattering'. If you know enough physics you might come to a certain understanding. I will care for obvious demos, as soon as I find the time necessary. Shareware and Distribution ========================== Other than the products mentioned above is SHAREWARE, meaning you MUST PAY it, if you decide to use it beyond a short test phase. See the documentation chapter "Politics" especially the sections "License" and "Registration" for information about the registration procedure. The UNREGISTERED version cannot be run from remote paths. In this case you will have to copy all scripts to the drawer is located in. The installation program should have taken care of that, when installing the demos. You are encouraged to include in any PD series as long as prices keep comparable to the "AmigaLibDisks", better known as "Fred Fish PD". I may cancel this permission at will. Files installed =============== The will have installed and as executables. is the program described in the documentation. is math processor with a very simple interface. You may use it as a scientific calculator (see chapter "Mathematics" in the documentation) and to get familiar with the maths expressions. Simply type: "SCalc" and an Enter line> prompt will appear. You may then enter any valid math expression and immediately watch the result. All variable and function definitions as well as all predifined variables are supported. Try: Enter line> 3+4 5 23 Enter line> a:=exp(3) Enter line> ln(a) 3 and so on. The demos are either installed in the same drawer is located or in another drawer, just how you told to do. All files ending with <.dat> and <.tst> are needed to run the demo. Files ending with <.tab>, <.gnu>, <.eep>, <.log> and <.tag> are created by the demos. The documentation is placed into the "Docs" drawer (or whereever you told to place it). the AmigaGuide hypertext documentation is always installed. In addition you may request the printable output file and (without icon) the source file of both, which you might convert to your favorite format. Finally there might be installed and some changes to your `S:' directory. See the script for how it is done. If you do not understand it, better do not change anythig. Contact ======= If the package should be damaged or there is something else wrong with it or you do not understand the docs or you cannot get the additional software packages or you have enhancement requests, bug reports, registration requests, ... contact: MGR, Asgard Lars Hanke Schlachthofstr. 67 44649 Herne FIDO: Lars Hanke 2:243/4802.22 UseNet: mgr@asgard.bo.open.de Aloha, Lars.