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- SORITEC Sampler(tm)
- Version 1.06B - 1.67
- Release Notes
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- March 13, 1985
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- This is the initial release of SORITEC Sampler, Version 1.06B - 1.67.
- It is supplied free of charge, and may be reproduced and distributed freely
- as long as no fee is charged and no alterations are made. Later releases
- of SORITEC Sampler will be available and can be obtained along with the
- SORITEC Reference Manual by sending $50.00 (U.S.) to the Sorites Group,
- Inc. (SGI), P.O. Box 2939, Springfield, VA 22152. Further information is
- provided at the end of the SORITEC Sampler Reference Manual, which is
- included on this diskette.
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- INSTALLATION NOTES
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- SORITEC Sampler has been released on three distribution diskettes.
- The first two contain the SORITEC Sampler program while the third contains
- documentation and examples. All files may be copied with the DOS COPY
- command. Additional notes on installation are given in Section 1.3 of the
- SORITEC Sampler Reference Manual.
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- The SORITEC Sampler Reference Manual is included on this third
- distribution diskette. You should first list out this documentation on
- your printer using the DOS PRINT command or the DOS COPY command (with
- Cntl-P enabled) before trying to run Sampler.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- SORITEC Sampler requires at least 384 KB of RAM and DOS 2.0 to
- execute. An 8087 math co-processor is optional, but recommended, on IBM
- PC's, XT's or compatibles, but the 8087 or 80287 co-processor is REQUIRED
- on the IBM PC-AT. The program may be run either from floppy diskettes or
- from a directory on a hard disk system.
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- Sampler has some minimum system requirements which may require you to
- change your CONFIG.SYS file. The following commands must be included in
- the CONFIG.SYS file before running the program.
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- DEVICE = ANSI.SYS
- FILES = 12
- BUFFERS = 12
- BREAK = ON
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- SAMPLE PROGRAMS
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- Several sample programs that demonstrate various features of SORITEC
- Sampler are provided on Disk 3 of the distribution disk set. These
- programs may be run directly from the diskette or copied to a directory on
- your hard disk. They are identified on the disk by the file extension
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- "SAC". All demonstrations except "IO.SAC" are "stand-alone" programs in
- that they do not perform any I/O that you might have to worry about. The
- IO.SAC demonstration both reads and writes data to an external device which
- is assumed to be the "b:" floppy disk drive. If you do not have a "b:"
- drive or wish to redirect input and output to another drive or directory,
- you will need to make a global change in IO.SAC changing all references of
- the "b:" drive to "a:" or "path" with a text editor.
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- Once in Sampler, you can run any single demonstration by entering the
- command:
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- EXECUTE 'd:\path\filename'
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- where "filename" is the name associated with a ".SAC" file extension. If
- the SAC file is on your current directory or drive, the single quotes may
- be omitted. For example, to run the demonstration on Sampler's forecasting
- capabilities, assuming it is in the current directory, enter:
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- EXECUTE forecast
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- To run the demo off the b: drive, enter:
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- EXECUTE 'b:forecast'
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- These are "rolling" demonstrations and so do not "freeze" the screen
- except when Sampler is grinding on the data. Use Cntl-S and Cntl-Q to
- control scrolling.
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- If you have a color graphics card and monitor, residual plots will
- hold the program until you press any key, when executing from a command
- file. You will have to do this if you run the demo, "REGRESS.SAC".
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- KNOWN BUGS
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- SORITEC Sampler has been extensively tested and is believed to be
- generally "bug-free". The following bugs are known and will be fixed with
- the next release.
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- (1) Attempts to access non-existant files may cause
- SORITEC Sampler to crash or return errors from its
- run-time libraries. In these cases, you should
- exit to DOS and re-invoke the system.
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- Other bugs found in SORITEC Sampler should be reported IN WRITING and
- with supporting documentation. We will do our best to fix what's broken
- but cannot guarantee that changes will be made to the program as a result
- of your findings. We expect to release a new version of SORITEC Sampler
- in late 1985.
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- REPRODUCTION
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- The Sampler is one of our main advertising channels. YOU DEFEAT THE
- PURPOSE IF YOU DO NOT COPY IT. PLEASE make at least two copies of SORITEC
- Sampler and distribute it to your friends and colleagues.
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- The three diskettes should contain the following files:
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- DISK FILENAME
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- DISK#1 SAMPLER.EXE
- SAMPLER0.OVL
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- DISK#2 SAMPLER1.OVL
- SAMPLER2.OVL
- SAMPLER3.OVL
- SAMPLER4.OVL
- SAMPLER5.OVL
- SAMPLER6.OVL
- SAMPLER7.OVL
- SAMPLER.FMT
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- DISK#3 REGRESS.SAC
- FORECAST.SAC
- DUMMY.SAC
- REVISE.SAC
- CROSSTAB.SAC
- SAMPLER.DOC
- README
- FINANCE.SAC
- POPDATA.SAL
- IO.SAC
- POPNEW.DIF
- COPYSETS.BAT
- README.BAT
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- SORITEC Sampler will fail to execute if any of the files on Disks 1 and 2
- are missing or are on the wrong disks.
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- If your computer has only two floppy disk drives, insert a
- distribution diskette in the "a:" drive and a blank diskette in the "b:"
- drive and enter:
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- COPY a:*.* b:
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- Repeat this process for the other two distribution diskettes to reproduce
- the set.
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- If your computer has only one floppy disk drive, insert the
- distribution diskette in the "a:" drive and enter the same command. DOS
- will prompt you when to insert the blank diskettes.
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- If your computer has a hard disk, you can use the batch file,
- COPYSETS.BAT, provided on Disk#3 if ALL files from the three distribution
- diskettes are in the same sub-directory. You invoke this batch file by
- entering the command:
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- COPYSETS d: [path]
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- to copy the SORITEC Sampler files from the sub-directory identified by
- "path" to the disk drive "d:". COPYSETS.BAT will successively prompt you
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- to insert blank diskettes in drive "d:" and will copy the required files to
- the appropriate diskettes. If the Sampler files are in the current
- directory, the "path" may be omitted. The drive designation "d:" must
- always be included in the command line.
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- To illustrate, suppose we wish to reproduce the SORITEC Sampler files
- that are in the sub-directory "C:\SORITEC" onto diskettes in the "a:"
- drive. The command is simply:
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- COPYSETS a: \SORITEC
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- if you invoke the batch file from a directory other than \SORITEC, or
- simply:
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- COPYSETS a:
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- if you invoke the batch file while in the \SORITEC directory. COPYSETS
- will inform you if the duplication was successful. Note that the "C:" is
- not included with the path name when the path name is included in the
- command line. You should check to see if all files have been copied to the
- appropriate diskettes before sending SORITEC Sampler on to someone else.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- We hope you find SORITEC Sampler to be a useful introductory
- econometrics package and a good demonstration of the capabilities of SGI's
- other product: SORITEC. Note, however, that SORITEC Sampler is NOT a
- supported product and is distributed without warranties of MERCHANTABILITY
- and FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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- SORITEC Sampler and SORITEC
- are trademarks of the Sorites Group, Inc.
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