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WinMDI 2.1 2.2 and 2.3,2.5 and 2.6 README Documentation
WinMDI is available either by anonymous ftp from facs.scripps.edu in /pub/pc as wmlatest.exe, or via the World Wide Web using your favorite Internet browser Connect to the TSRI Flow Cytometry Home Page URL: If you are currently connected to the Internet and have or
you may check for updates now:
http://facs.scripps.edu/software.html
Update WinMDI now from TSRI
WinMDI has been developed as a Windows 3.1 16bit flow cytometry application and is offered as unsupported software. No warranty is expressed or implied, not for use in diagnostic procedures.
All comments and questions should be addressed via email to trotter@scripps.edu. If there are problems reading your data files, upload a copy (in BINARY mode) via anonymous ftp into /pub/incoming on facs.scripps.edu and send an email note to trotter@scripps.edu regarding the problem. I'll try to have a look as soon as possible. Currently, WinMDI likes only FCS1.0/FCS2.0 compliant listmode files. WinMDI runs best under Windows 95/98/NT, even though it is 16 bit Windows application. The minimum system requirements are:
Processor: 486/33 + 387 fpu math chip or better with 8 megabytes memory.
Recommended: Pentium 100 with 32MB RAM or better with Windows 95/98/NT
Monitor: SVGA 800x600 or 1024x768 recommended.
OS: MS DOS 5.0 or later + MS Windows 3.1 or later, Windows NT, or OS/2
Windows 3.1: Use Microsoft's SMARTDrive or other disk cache program.
Note: Occasional problems have been reported with systems using less than 8 MB RAM, so consider 16MB RAM or better a strong recommendation, and a Pentium processor with 32MB RAM a good system for WinMDI.
Wm28w95.exe is a self extracting zip file. The best way to install WinMDI is to create a WinMDI directory from a DOS prompt and place wm28w95.exe in the new directory before extracting the files with the wm28w95 command.
C:>mkdir C:\WINMDI
C:>copy wm28w95.exe C:\winmdi
C:>cd C:\WinMDI
C:\WinMDI>wm28w95
PKSFX (R) FAST! Self Extract Utility Version 2.04g 02-01-93
Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware version
PKSFX Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
Searching EXE: C:/WINMDI/WM28W95.EXE
Inflating: OS.DAT
Inflating: _ISDEL.EXE
Inflating: SETUP.EXE
Inflating: LANG.DAT
Inflating: _INST32I.EX_
Inflating: _SETUP.DLL
Inflating: SETUP.INS
Inflating: _SYS1.CAB
Inflating: SETUP.BMP
Inflating: DATA.TAG
Extracting: SETUP.INI
Inflating: _USER1.CAB
Inflating: LAYOUT.BIN
Inflating: DATA1.CAB
Extracting: SETUP.LID
This extracts all the WinMDI setup files into the new WinMDI directory.
Then run Setup.exe and the install shield with properly install WinMDI 2.8 in your system.
If your computer runs under Windows 95 you should also update the GID file for winhelp32 before running WinMDI or the Help file:
c:\WinMDI>winhelp -g winmdi.hlp(Windows 95 only)
Update winmdi.GID with WinHelp now
If you are connected to the Internet, you may go to the TSRI site for updates via the World Wide Web using your currently installed browser.
Windows 3.1:
Use the conventional Windows 3.1 Program Manager File New... command to create any new Group desired for WinMDI, or to place the program in an existing group. After extraction, there should be both WINMDI.EXE and WINMDI.HLP in the WINMDI directory. Create a "WinMDI 2.8" program item and a "WinMDI Help" program item:
1) Description:WinMDI 2.8
Command line:winmdi.exe
Working Dir: <the directory you created>
2) Description:WinMDI Help
Command line:winhelp.exe winmdi.hlp
Working Directory:<the directory you created>
Windows 95:
Use the Start -> Settings -> Taskbar, select Start Menu Programs, then click the Add button and create the the items in the WinMDI folder.:
1) Description:WinMDI 2.8
Command line:winmdi.exe
Working Dir: <the directory you created>
2) Description:WinMDI Help
Command line:winhelp.exe winmdi.hlp
Working Directory:<the directory you created>
The items should appear and be available from the Start menu.
Note! If you have upgraded your system with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and have enabled the Active Desktop, it is recommended to have at least 64MB RAM to avoid swapping.
WinMDI:
The original application was been developed as a utility under Windows 3.1 for
"in house" use. As a result, it does not have the refinement of a commercially developed application. Even so, you may find several of its features helpful in the analysis of flow cytometry data. For example, copying and pasting bitmaps of contour maps into your desktop publishing application, or creating a high resolution PostScript image of your data display might look best using WinMDI.
Graphical histogram, contour, and dotplot windows have extra commands appended to their system menus. Both Fixup and Refresh are useful for resetting the window(s) to their default sizes and cleaning up the display upon occasion.
With a little experimentation, I hope you find some uses for WinMDI and that you don't get any "Application Error" messages. WinMDI 2.8 seems fairly stable doing the simple things we do with it here. We have only run it on two different systems, however. So, the unexpected is likely to occur somewhere out there on other systems. The known "good" systems are:
Datel 486/66 with VESA Local Bus, 16 MB RAM
Cirrus Logic VESA Local Bus SVGA
NEC/MultiSync 4D
Datal Pentium/166 PCI bus, 64MB RAM
Trident PCI Accelerator SVGA 2MB
Sony Multiscan 17sfII
Mega Computer Systems 486/33 with 16 megs
ATI Graphics Ultra SVGA
NEC 4FG
Gateway Pentium with 16MB RAM
Orchid RAMDAC
NEC 5FG
Printers tested:
HP 820 Cse, 540 Deskjet (with color kit)
HP 1200/C PS
QMS 800 series PostScript laser printers
Sun Microsystems SPARCPrinter and SPARCPrinter II
Tektronix Phaser series