        Virtual Instrumentation (VITESS)
	for pulsed and continuous sources


Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin
Modules:
	Gza Zsigmond    (geza.zsigmond@psi.ch)
	Klaus Lieutenant (lieutena@ill.fr)
	Sergey Manoshin
	Dietmar Wechsler
	Friedrich Streffer

GUI Software:
	Michael Fromme   (fromme@hmi.de)


README

This program is a Tcl/Tk application. It has
been developed on Unix systems, but runs on windows
systems, too.

Installation under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

This version came to you as a selfextracting file,
which has been produced with Inno Setup (by Jordan Russell
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm).

You may compare the CRC32 or MD5 checksums of the downloaded
vitess.exe install program with those stated at
https://www.hmi.de/projects/ess/vitess/checksums.txt


If you install the full version with Tcl/Tk + BLT
files included, double-clicking the VITESS item on your
desktop should start the application.

If you install the minimal version, the desktop symbol
might not link to your installed tcl software.
Let us assume you installed tcl at C:\Programs\tcl
and VITESS to c:\Programs\vitess.
Please change the program shortcut (link) on your desktop accordingly:
VITESS start command
  C:\Programs\tcl\bin\wish.exe -f Vitess
working directory
  C:\Programs\vitess

CAVEAT: 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Do not use folder names with blanks and other                       |
| non-alphanumeric characters! DO NOT USE C:\Program Files\           |
| Pipes and commands will fail, because they assume command           |
| parts to be separated by blanks.                                    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+

To uninstall VITESS you might use the uninstall item
in the command (sub-) menu (like START/VITESS/uninstall)
or the windows 9x uninstall procedure for software
(START/settings/system/software or German 
 START/Einstellungen../Systemsteuerung/Software). 

Pipe Command Execution under Windows 9x

If you save a pipe command and execute it as a batch file
in a MS-DOS shell window, you might observe problems with
temporary file sizes. Pipes in a MS-DOS shell are executed
strictly serialized, with intermediate files storing
command output. These intermediate files may be too big.
With Tcl/Tk piped commands are executed (quasi-)pararallel,
with small intermediate buffers in memory. 
Solution: 
1) start pipes from the VITESS GUI
2) Save the GUI setting with "save tcl" to a file e.g. C:\c.tcl
   Start a separate wish (C:\Programs\tcl\bin\tclsh.exe)
   and source C:\c.tcl there.
