NONMEM Installation

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:49:10 +1300 From: Nick Holford <n.holford@auckland.ac.nz> Subject: NONMEM Installation I am running Compaq Visual Fortran 6.1 and Windows NT 4 Service Pack 5. I do have any problem running nmfe5 with control3. The file LINK.LNK is created by nmlink5.exe during execution of nmfe5. The LNK extension makes no difference to the creation of the file. It does affect associations however and means you cannot open LINK.LNK using the Explorer to open it with Notepad for instance and it also means that the Explorer does not show the file extension so you may be fooled into thinking the file is just named LINK. I would suggest to Alexander that he run nmfe5 again, without the new line renaming any existing file named link to link.lnk, then give the DOS command DIR LINK.* command to see if LINK.LNK is created by nmlink5.exe. It is very hard to believe that NT interferes with the way that nmlink5.exe creates a file. Overall the problems of using the LNK extension can be avoided by changing the name LINK.LNK to say LINK.LNF in nmlink5.for and recompiling it (command is "df nmlink5" in the nmv\util directory) and also changing the reference to link.lnk to link.lnf in nmfe5.bat. -- Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand email:n.holford@auckland.ac.nz tel:+64(9)373-7599x6730 fax:373-7556 http://www.phm.auckland.ac.nz/Staff/NHolford/nholford.htm