NONMEM Installation

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:48:41 -0800 (PST) From: ABoeckmann <alison@c255.ucsf.edu> Subject:NONMEM Installation JJ Zarate asked some questions about installation of NONMEM on Linux. Although nmconsult@c255.ucsf.edu is usually a better place for such questions, these particular questions are of general interest. Two of his problems are easily handled with NONMEM V 1.1: Unix SETUP has been modified to recognize the option "intel". This tells it that BLKDAT should specify the INTEL constants rather than IEEE constants. Unix NMFE5 now runs under the Cshell because this line was added: #!/bin/csh With NONMEM V 1.0, it is necessary to stop SETUP before the compiles, edit BLKDAT to activate the INTEL constants, and restart SETUP. Also, you must edit NMFE5 to insert the line #!/bin/csh if you are not using the C-shell. As for the FLU routine, what he says is true. Each time "CALL FLUSH" is executed, this takes a little time. It is writing the latest iteration summary to the report file on disk. There is a trade off between longer run time vs. the convenience of seeing exactly what the current state of the run is. We feel that the time spent writing is minor and it is to your advantage to leave the CALL FLUSH as-is. Alison Boeckmann