README for EDM (Enterprise Data-Miner)
(c) 2002 Sholom M. Weiss and Nitin Indurkhya
EDM is available for Unix, Windows 9x/2000/XP and Java. The platforms for
the Unix versions are listed in the
web page quick summary.
Functionally, EDM is the same across
all platforms. A command line interface is used:
A program name is typed followed by a list of arguments.
The Java version also has a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and can be
fully run as
an applet using Netscape or Internet Explorer.
Complete documentation is available offline in the file edm.html.
Unix Installation:
- Create a directory named edm ("mkdir edm")
- Download the file to edm and save as edm.tar.Z
- Type "uncompress edm.tar.Z"
- Type "tar -x -v -f edm.tar"
- Add edm to your path
Windows Installation:
Working in an MS-DOS window:
- Create a directory named edm ("mkdir c:\edm")
- Create a directory named tmp ("mkdir c:\tmp")
- Download the file to \edm and save as installedm.exe
- "cd \edm" and run installedm.exe by typing "installedm"
- Add directory \edm to your path and set environmental variable LFN to y.
- Windows 9x: edit autoexec.bat using "notepad c:\autoexec.bat"; add
"c:\edm;" to the PATH line. (Alternative: add new line "PATH c:\edm;%PATH%" at the end of the file.) Also add new
line "set LFN=y". A single space follows the words PATH and set. These lines should contain no additional spaces.
- Windows 2000: click on control panel (system folder/environment).
Add "c:\edm;" (no spaces) to the environmental variable PATH. Create
the environmental variable LFN and set it to a value of y.
- Optional but advantageous
is to change the MS-DOS window "memory property" for DPMI to 65535
- Notes: The EDM programs are run from an MS-DOS window. The
path and environment changes may not take effect until the next login
or restart. A disk other than c: may be used.
Optional GNU Unix Utilities for Windows:
The EDM programs are standalone programs that run without Unix
utilities. However, the scripts are processed by Unix utilities. The
scripts are files that do not have any extension such as "exe". To enable
running the scripts on a PC, run
installgnu.exe (i.e. type "installgnu") from within the edm directory, which
extracts high-quality GNU Unix-like (djgpp-version)
utility programs that can run scripts. Unlike EDM, these gnu programs are
free and may be distributed by anyone free of charge. See \edm\gnulicense for full details. Installgnu.exe contains just the unmodified
subset of utilities used by our scripts.
You may retrieve the full set of utilities including source from the djgpp
link.
- Note for Windows: Scripts must be preceded by the word bash, for example
"bash boost" to run the script named boost.
Java Installation:
EDM can be run as either a Java applet or a Java application. To run as an
applet, all you need is a browser with an up-to-date Java Virtual
Machine conforming to JDK 1.1:
- Netscape Communicator 4.03 or greater with JDK1.1 support
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater
Either of these browsers is fully sufficient to run EDM without an
external Java Development Kit. EDM can also run as a standalone Java application
with either a command line interface or GUI.
An application (not an applet) expects the prior installation of a
Java virtual machine such as the
Java Development Kit (JDK 1.1) or Runtime Environment (JRE) .
- Create a directory named edm, and download the file to directory edm.
- Windows: Working in an MS-DOS window:
- Create a directory named edm ("mkdir c:\edm")
- Download the file to \edm and save as installedmj.exe
- "cd \edm" and run installedmj.exe by typing "installedmj"
- Unix: Save as edmj.tar.Z; Connect to directory edm; Type "uncompress edmj.tar.Z"; Type "tar -x -v -f
edmj.tar"
- Add the full path for edm.zip to the environment variable CLASSPATH.
For example with Windows 9x, add "set classpath=c:\edm\edm.zip" to the
autoexec.bat file. DO NOT UNZIP edm.zip.
- To run as an applet, open the local file "edmapp" within the
browser. To run as an application using a Java Development Kit,
type (a)"java edm" for the GUI or (b)prefix the standard command
line interface with the word "java".
Datasets
The datasets provided with EDM are downloaded separately from http://www.data-miner.com/download.html. Save as edmdata.zip and unzip in a separate directory.
Cleaning Up:
Following successful installation, the following files may be deleted or moved to backup storage:
- For Unix: edm.tar and edmdata.zip
- For Windows: edmdata.zip, installedm.exe and installgnu.exe
- For Java: edmdata.zip, installedmj.exe and edmj.tar