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           Data Master 2000   
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Table of contents
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  1. Introduction
  2. System requirements
  3. Installation notes


  Introduction
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  Data Master 2000 is free software developed for 
automation of the professional measurement systems, 
data acquisition, processing and analysis. It is 
particularly suitable for scientists who would like 
to make high-performance, precise measurements in 
the experimental physics. Key features include: 

 * powerful visual curve/point editor; 
 * wide set of numerical operations; 
 * calculation of arbitrary functions; 
 * process huge tables (>10^6 lines); 
 * linear and Levenberg-Marquardt fitters; 
 * base line subtractor and digitizer; 
 * remote data acquisition over internet. 

 This application is completely programmable via 
OLE automation and supports scripting languages 
like MS Office, has consistent user interface and 
compatible with popular desktop applications.

 Data Master 2000 distributed with full source code
available for download from the WWW home page.


  System requirements
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  All components of Data Master 2000 were developed 
and tested under both Windows 98 and Windows 2000. 
Minimal hardware requirements (as for Windows 98) are
486DX2-66 processor with 16MB RAM and 800x600x8bpp 
SVGA. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade 
your system to MSIE5 - some features will not work 
correctly with MSIE4 from the original Windows98.

  DM2000 installation takes approximately 1-3 Mbytes 
of the disk space, depend on installed components. 
It is not recommended to run this application from 
the remote computer because Windows cannot correctly 
create OLE objects when machine is down.


  Installation notes
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 * DM2000 installation is very simple: just run 
setup.exe and follow instructions that appear on
the screen. To uninstall, use Control Panel ->
Add/Remove programs -> DM2000.

 * You must have administrative rights to perform 
installation under Windows 2000 (and Windows NT).

 * If you have downloaded DM2000 as a set of separate
zip archives, you should perform some optional setup 
manually as described in the online help.

 * You must close all running instances of dm2000.exe
and, probably, other processes that may lock DM2000 
components before starting installation. Use Windows 
System Information tool to confirm that all necessary
files are not loaded into the memory. For example,
since DM2000 MetaBase may be configured to display
shell property pages, the property pages handler 
(proppage.dll) may be locked by Windows paging system
and uninstaller will fail to delete this file. To 
avoid this situation you should reboot Windows before
starting installation (or uninstallation).

 * File associations are not created automatically 
by the InstallShield setup to save current system 
settings. If you want to associate file types with 
DM2000, use Setup dialog box (Options|Setup menu 
item). Of course, you also should delete file 
associations manually before uninstallation.

 * Data Master 2000 Script window requires Microsoft
Scripting Control OCX (msscript.ocx). This is shared
file and you should install it only if this file was
not installed earlier. Notice that by default this
control is included in Windows 2000. Also you can 
download latest version from the Microsoft web site.

 * If you use original Windows 98 system, DM2000 may
fail to start if core OLE libraries (OLEAUT32.DLL 
and OLEPRO32.DLL) have incorrect versions. In this
case you may download updated files from the DM2000 
home page (MSIE5 includes updated DLLs).


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For more information and downloads 
visit DM2000 web homepage:

http://datamaster2000.tripod.com

GPI mirror (may be unavailable)
http://at14.smp.gpi.ru/dm2000

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Copyright © 1993, 2002 by RRR

