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INFORMATION ABOUT LOADING AND RUNNING KWIKSTAT ON A TWO FLOPPY SYSTEM
PREPARING THE DISKS:
1. Always use COPIES of the original disks. You can make copies of the
disks by using the DOS DISKCOPY or COPY *.* commands. Label the copies of
the disks WORKING DISK 1, WORKING DISK 2, WORKING DISK 3 and DATA DISK.
2. Copy the file COMMAND.COM from your DOS boot disk to the DATA DISK in
drive B: by placing your boot disk in the A: drive, the DATA DISK in the B:
drive and entering the command:
COPY A:COMMAND.COM B:
3. To copy other necessary files to the DATA DISK, place the DATA DISK in
drive B:, and place KWIKSTAT DISK 3 in the A: drive. At the A: prompt, enter
the command MAKEDATA. This copies database files to the disk in drive B:.
Follow the prompts on the the screen. When the process is finished, you will
return to the DOS "A>" prompt.
4. After the MAKEDATA command is finished, place WORKING DISK 1 in the A:
drive and enter the command FSETUP and follow the instructions on the screen.
This will setup the program to work with your computer.
IMPORTANT: When prompted by the setup program, be sure to setup the default
path for data storage as B: so Kwikstat will know where your data is stored.
Follow the prompts on the the screen. When the process is finished, you will
return to the DOS "A>" prompt.
5. Each time you run KWIKSTAT (with WORKING DISK 1 in the A: drive and the
DATA DISK in the B: drive) first enter the command
SETCOM (this tells your computer where COMMAND.COM is located)
Then enter the command
KS (this begins Kwikstat)
When finished running KWIKSTAT, enter the command
RESET (resets COMMAND.COM to A:)
USAGE NOTES:
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1. When you are running KWIKSTAT from a floppy disk, and request an analysis
that is not on the disk that is currently in drive A:, a message will appear
on the screen telling you that the module requested could not be found on the
current disk. You will be prompted to change disks or press Esc to cancel the
request. To run the analysis, place the appropriate disk in the A: drive, and
press Enter. The message will read something like this:
----------------------------------------------------------------
| Program file KS3STAT.EXE is not on this disk. |
| Press Esc to exit request or change disks, then press Enter |
----------------------------------------------------------------
The following modules/programs are on these disks:
MODULE DISK PROGRAM NAME
-------- ---- ------------
Setup 1 KSETUP.EXE
Database 1 KS3.EXE
Statistics 2 KS3STAT.EXE
Crosstabulations 2 KS3CROS.EXE
Regression 2 KS3REG.EXE
t-tests and ANOVA 2 KS3AOV1.EXE
Non-Parametrics 2 KS3NPAR.EXE
Life/Survival 3 KS3LIFE.EXE
Simulations 3 KS3SIMU.EXE
Utilities 3 KS3UTIL.EXE
After you finish running that analysis, you will be prompted to put DISK 1
back into the A: drive.
2. If you want to avoid some of the disk swapping, you can erase enough
unnecessary files on disk 1 to place at least one of the analysis modules on
disk 1. For example, here are files you can erase on disk 1 (Don't do this on
the original disk, do it on a copy!):
INSTALL.EXE (These two files are needed to load to a hard disk.)
TXINSTAL.INI
If you are not using a Hercules monitor, you can erase:
MSHERC.COM
HERCLJ.EXE
That should provide you with enough space to copy one of the modules onto
Disk 1. Copy a file such as KS3STAT.EXE (Descriptive stats module) onto
disk 1 (from disk 2). When you have done this, you will no longer have to
swap disks to go from the main menu (Analyze) to the descriptive stats
module. Do this with the module you access most.
3. We provide a way to run Kwikstat on a two 360K-floppy system since some
customers continue to need this option. However, for easiest use, we
recommend a hard disk installation. Given the option, choose a hard disk
system to run KWIKSTAT. Or, if you have at least 720K on a floppy disk, you
can run the entire program from that disk, and avoid swapping disks. If your
computer has a 3.5 inch drive or a 1.2M 5.25 inch drive as well as your 360K
5.25 inch drive, you can use the INSTALL program to install KWIKSTAT onto your
3.5 inch or 1.2M 5.25 inch drive, then run the entire program from that disk.