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Download

The main download page is at Sterrewacht Leiden.

There is also a page at MPIA Heidelberg which contains a copy of the package.

After the download has been completed, please execute

   gunzip -c MIA+EWS-XXX.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
to unpack the tar ball. A directory MIA+EWS will be created that needs about 30 MByte of disk space. If IDL 6.0 or later is available, "MIA+EWS" runs on Solaris and Linux machines where the software is regularly tested. A succesful try has also been made under HP-UX, but we do not fully test every version on it.

Installation

Change the current working directory to MIA+EWS by typing

   cd <path>/MIA+EWS-xxx
where <path> is the path where you unpacked the tarball, and xxx is the version number.
Now you can start the installation by typing
   gmake gui
This will (hopefully) compile all the C-programs and -libraries.

If your system does not have gmake, try

   make gui
If that doesn't work either (because there is no make, or because the compilation fails with some weird error messages), then your system probably does not have GNU make. This means you cannot install MIA+EWS.

There is a known problem with some 64-bit linux machines. Note that there is no error message during compilation, but you get some very weird error messages when you try to use the software. If you have this problem, and you are reading this, then you belong to a rare and probably endangered species. In theory, the installation routines should detect if they are running on such a machine, and adapt the compiler-flags. If this doesn't work, you can try to (re-)install with the command

   gmake install32
If this doesn't work either, you're in trouble. Contact the expert (and don't forget to send some cheese).

Running the software

If the installation runs to completion, there will be a file called STARTUP in the directory MIA+EWS. This file should be executed by IDL in order to set things up. There are several methods to do this:

Now you can go to your favorite directory, start idl, and load MIA+EWS by your prefered method.

A number of compilation messages should flash by, but hopefully no error messages. Finally, you see a message giving the version of MIA+EWS you are using, who wrote it, and that it's free software.

That's all, you are now ready to enter the wonderful world of MIDI data.


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Rainer Köhler, 11-Oct-2005