Re: NONMEM installation on Windows Me

From: "bvatul" <bvatul@ufl.edu> Subject: Re: NONMEM installation on Windows Me Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:09:18 -0400 Hello Sam/All These are some of my experiences with WinME+Compaq Visual Fortran 6.5+NONMEM Yes, I am using WinME for NONMEM. The problem that I was facing was because the memory settings were not correct. To correct the problem please do these steps: 1. In case you are installing digitial fortran, please create a folder and copy dfvars.bat file into it. 2. From DOS prompt or from WIndows Explorer run the file dfvars.bat (From Explorer you can simply double click) 3. In case you have problem in the memory settings a message will be displayed which will say that OUT OF MEMORY. 4. In MS-DOS window please increase your memory settings to 2048. 5. Close the window, restart the computer and double click on dfvars.bat 6. This time you should not see any error message on OUT OF MEMORY or a similar message. 7. Please also check if your AUTOEXEC.bat has the starting lines in it if step 6 fails. 8. I hope that during installation of Fortran Compiler it must have prompted you to allow it to make changes to the AUTOEXEC file. 9. You should now be able to install NONMEM with no problem with setup a c nmv df y link command 10. In worst case you might have to copy dfvars.bat (or its equivalent) to run folder and then execute it everytime you have to run NONMEM. Did installation fail in sep.for compilation step and give message that Check for error messages in emsgs.txt. For overcoming this step this would be good: Which fortran compiler are you using? Is it Compaq Visual Fortran? If so, you need to do peruser setup and then only it will compile NONMEM. One more thing which I did was I created a folder and copied dfvars.bat to it and then before installing NONMEM i simply opened the directory and I typed dfvars.bat. then I proceeded to go ahead with installation of NONMEM. 11. Before reinstalling NONMEM please delete the previous installation completely. 12. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU RUN DFVARS.BAT BEFORE YOU INSTALL NONMEM. IT WILL DO IT. 13. RUN THE TEST FILE (CONTROL3) AND I AM CONFIDENT IT WILL WORK. 14. That is not all. Now the actual test comes. Open the MS-DOS and run one of your actual data files. 15. If it runs then all is well otherwise you can copy dfvars.bat into run folder and run it everytime you open dos window to run NONMEM. 16. I have tried to use WinME with Compaq Visual Fortran. I could install NONMEM and run the control3 file, but all problems broke out when I started to analyse real life data sets and NONMEM will simply say file not found while at the same time when I check in run folder the data files are very much present. I could not resolve the problem (I must thank Dr Bachman for his patience) and I went back to my old Fortran Power Station (Microsoft). I even formatted my machine to check if there was any problem in DOS configuration (since my system, DELL was preloaded with WinME). I am still not sure where was the problem but I am now working with Fortran Power Station on WinME Atul