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Chapter 2
Installation
2.1
System requirements
SIMNRA is a native 32-bit program for Windows 95 or Windows NT and requires at
least a 386-processor with math coprocessor or a higher processor (486, Pentium). A
fast processor (100 MHz 486 or higher) is highly recommended. SIMNRA will run under Windows 3.1 with WIN32S Version 1.30 or higher1 . However, using SIMNRA with
Windows 3.1 is not recommended and may result in global protection faults. SIMNRA
does not run under OS/2 Warp 3. Super-VGA resolution of 800 × 600 pixels or higher is
recommended. SIMNRA requires about 2 MB free hard disk space. At least 8 MB RAM
are recommended.
2.2
Installation
Unzip the file SIMNRAxy.ZIP2 into a directory of your choice, for example C:\SIMNRA.
Use pkunzip’s -d switch to create the correct subdirectory structure. After unzipping you
should have obtained the files listed in table 2.1.
Now run the program SIMNRA. The name of the executable program is SIMNRA.EXE.
When you run SIMNRA for the first time, you will be prompted for the name of the directory where SIMNRA is installed, for the above example enter C:\SIMNRA. The names
1
WIN32S
is
a
32-bit
extension
for
Windows
3.1.
It
is
available
from
Microsoft
(http://www.microsoft.com). WIN32S is not needed for Windows 95 or Windows NT. SIMNRA will
not run with WIN32S Version 1.25 or lower.
2
xy is the version number, 30 stands for version 3.0
3