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                   NNelmos 1.12
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  Neuronale Netze lernen mit Osnabruecker Studenten
    Learning Neural Nets with Osnabrueck Students

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Hello!

Thanks for downloading NNelmos, Version 1.12. 
It's a small graphical tool for visualizing the processes
inside a simulated artifivial neural network. If you're new
to this subject or looking for a demonstration program,
NNelmos might be useful for you.

NNelmos is Freeware. You can use and distribute it as much 
and as long as you want, provided that you:
- don't charge any fee for it (other than to cover your
  expenses)
- don't modify the documentation or try to claim it as your
  work

Updated Versions, Bugfixes, better Documentation... will be
available via the Internet from:
- http://www.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/~nntthele/nnelmos/
- email: nnadmin@cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de

For more information on copyright issues, contacting us and
how to use NNelmos, read the file readme.nn or choose the
menu About/Readme within NNelmos. The C source code is available
upon request (depends on what you'd like to do with it).

In this document, you find:

0. System requirements
1. Installation
2. Running NNelmos
3. Troubleshooting

In this directory you find:

nnelmos.txt   Short english documentation
readme.112    What's new since the last version
doc           German documentation
answer.nn     A short questionnaire we would like
              you to answer.

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0. System requirements
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Minimal:
  - 386sx Processor 
  - 2 MB RAM
  - 2,5 MB hard disc space
  - VESA compatible SVGA Card (640x480, 256 Colors)
  - standard mouse
  - Co-Processor (highly recommended, see 3. if you don't have one)

Optimal:
  - 486DX2/66 Processor
  - 4 MB RAM
  - 2,5 MB hard disc space
  - VESA compatible SVGA Card (640x480, 256 Colors)
  - standard mouse

1. Installation
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- Start MS-DOS. If you running Windows 95 on you computer
  switch to the MS-DOS mode. (This is not necessary  for
  installation but for running NNelmos)

- Create a new directory such as c:\nnelmos by typing:
  c:
  mkdir \nnelmos
  cd \nnelmos

- Unzip the file NLMOS112.ZIP with your favourite unzipper.
  Make sure that subdirectories are created when unzipping.
  E.g. for pkunzip, type:
  pkunzip -d NLMOS112.ZIP

- You can remove the .ZIP file now.

2. Running NNelmos
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- CD to the NNelmos directory.

- Make sure that a Mouse Driver is installed.

- Start NNelmos.exe by typing:
  NNelmos

- Enjoy. Online help is given via the menu command about/readme,
  you can also read the (short) english documentation in the
  file readme.nn in the NNelmos directory.

3. Troubleshooting
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- The mouse cursor is to slow or fast.
  You can adjust this by starting NNelmos with an additional parameter:
  nnelmos -mouse n
  (where n is the mouse speed, 1<=n<=5, the default is 2)

- The screen blanks but then the prompt reappears.
  1. NNelmos can't find the DATA directory. This must be available just
     below the directory NNelmos war started from. If you don't have
     such a directory and don't know where it went, just create an empty
     one. (And hurry to reinstall NNelmos.)
  2. You graphics card isn't detected correctly.
     NNelmos should run on any VESA-compatible SVGA Card. It uses the
     640x480 256 color mode. If you experience problems with you
     graphics card, please contact us.
  3. The mouse driver you've installed isn't supported. Try another one
     or, if this isn't possible don't start a mouse driver and start 
     NNelmos mouseless.
  4. You don't have a Co-Processor installed (386 only). You can use
     any djgpp 2.0 Co-Pro emulator (as available on http://www.delorie.com),
     but we discourage you from running NNelmos without a Co-Processor.

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Tobias Thelen                  Michael Saure
Feldbreede 7                   Am Haster Berg 3
49078 Osnabrueck               49074 Osnabrueck
Germany                        Germany

email:
nnadmin@cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de  (preferred)
tthelen@rz.uni-osnabrueck.de
msaure@rz.uni-osnabrueck.de

WWW:
http://www.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/~nntthele/nnelmos/
http://www.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/~nnadmin/


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