Installation

6 Installation

6.1 System Requirements

The WinIDAMS software is available for 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems (Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP)

A Pentium II or faster processor and 64 megabytes RAM are recommended.

On all systems, you should have about 11 megabytes of free disk space before attempting to install the WinIDAMS software in each language.

6.2 Installation Procedure

The release 1.3 of WinIDAMS is stored on CD in a self-extracting file


     WinIDAMS\English\Install\WIDAMSR13E.EXE      : English version
     WinIDAMS\French\Install\WIDAMSR13F.EXE       : French version
     WinIDAMS\Portuguese\Install\WIDAMSR13P.EXE   : Portuguese version
     WinIDAMS\Spanish\Install\WIDAMSR13S.EXE      : Spanish version

or in equivalent downloaded file.

To install the English version:
1. Select WIDAMSR13E.EXE with Windows explorer.
2. Double-click on this file and follow the prompts.
3. At the end of the installation procedure, a dialog box appears asking: "Do you wish to install HTML Help 1.3 update now?". It is recommended to answer YES.
The installation procedure creates two items in the Program Manager/Start menu, one for executing WinIDAMS and one for uninstalling WinIDAMS. It also creates an icon on the desktop which is a link/shortcut to WinIDAMS.

6.3 Testing the Installation

A Setup file containing instructions for executing 4 data management programs (CHECK, CONCHECK, TRANS and AGGREG) and 6 data analysis programs (TABLES, REGRESSN, MCA, SEARCH, TYPOL and RANK) is copied into the Work folder during the installation. To execute it:

Start WinIDAMS by a double-click on its icon.

You will see the WinIDAMS main window with a default application displayed in the left pane. Open the Setups folder. There is the demo.set file with instructions for execution of the 10 programs.

By double-click, the file opens in the Setup window. Execute it from this window. Results of the execution are sent to the file idams.lst which is immediately opened in the Results window.

The distributed version of the results is provided in the file demo.lst in the Results folder.

Compare the two versions of the results.

6.4 Folders and Files Created During Installation

6.4.1 WinIDAMS Folders

The full path name of the WinIDAMS System folder is given on the "Select Destination Directory" of the installation wizard and the following folders are created during the installation (see "Files and Folders" chapter for details):


     English version             French version              

     <WinIDAMS13-EN>\appl        <WinIDAMS13-FR>\appl       
     <WinIDAMS13-EN>\data        <WinIDAMS13-FR>\data         
     <WinIDAMS13-EN>\temp        <WinIDAMS13-FR>\temp       
     <WinIDAMS13-EN>\trans       <WinIDAMS13-FR>\trans      
     <WinIDAMS13-EN>\work        <WinIDAMS13-FR>\work        

     Portuguese version          Spanish version 

     <WinIDAMS13-PT>\appl        <WinIDAMS13-SP>\appl
     <WinIDAMS13-PT>\data        <WinIDAMS13-SP>\data  
     <WinIDAMS13-PT>\temp        <WinIDAMS13-SP>\temp
     <WinIDAMS13-PT>\trans       <WinIDAMS13-SP>\trans
     <WinIDAMS13-PT>\work        <WinIDAMS13-SP>\work

6.4.2 Files Installed

System files in the System folder

(\WinIDAMS13-EN , \WinIDAMS13-FR , \WinIDAMS13-PT , \WinIDAMS13-SP )


  WinIDAMS.exe       Main executable file for the WinIDAMS User Interface
  Ter32.dll          |
  Hts32.dll          | Dlls used by WinIDAMS User Interface
  unesys.exe         Executable file used for processing setups
  Idame.mst          Master file of the text data base for IDAMS programs
  Idame.xrf          Cross reference file of the text data base for IDAMS programs
  idams.def          Definition of the mapping between ddnames and file names
  Graph32.exe        GraphID executable file
  graphid.ini        Ini file used by GraphID for storing colours, fonts and co-ordinates
  Idtml32.exe        TimeSID executable file
  idaddto32.dll      Dll used by GraphID and TimeSID
  IDAMSC_DLL.dll     Dll used by TimeSID
  Idams.chm          WinIDAMS Manual help file
  <pgmname>.pro      Prototypes for IDAMS programs

Dictionary and data files used for examples in the Data folder

(\WinIDAMS13-EN\data , \WinIDAMS13-FR\data , \WinIDAMS13-PT\data , \WinIDAMS13-SP\data )


       educ.dic
       educ.dat
       rucm.dic
       rucm.dat
       watertim.dic
       watertim.dat
       data.csv
       tab.mat

Demonstration setup and result files in the Work folder

(\WinIDAMS13-EN\work , \WinIDAMS13-FR\work , \WinIDAMS13-PT\work , \WinIDAMS13-SP\work )


       demo.set
       demo.lst

6.5 Uninstallation

An uninstaller program is created during the installation procedure. The user can execute the uninstaller either by clicking on WinIDAMS13-EN/Uninstall WinIDAMS13-EN in the Program Manager/Start menu or by deleting the "WinIDAMS Release 1.3, English version, July 2004" entry in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel applet. This uninstaller deletes the content of the WinIDAMS folder selected during the installation process. It does not delete folders if they are not empty.