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This file addresses the following issues:

* System Requirements
* Installation of Neural Net Lab
* Manual Installation
* Known Bugs
* Release History     

NOTE: Neural Net Lab is not free software. It is shareware. You are
free to evaluate the program for 30 days, free of charge. If you
continue to use the software after the 30 days, you must pay a
small registration fee. See the file license.doc and the online
help for further information.

Inner Star Psychological Software can be contacted via email at:

74200.303@compuserve.com from the Internet

74200,303 via Compuserve.

snail mail:

Larry Z. Daily/Inner Star Psychological Software
P.O. Box 11561
Burke, Virginia, 22009

Updates to Neural Net Lab are posted on Compuserve in the AI Expert forum
(GO AIEXPERT) and on our homepage at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/LDaily. 

System Requirements

Neural Net Lab has been tested on machines ranging from 20MHZ 80386's to 
100MHZ 80486's. It runs (or at least strolls leisurely) on all these 
machines.
Other requirements:

* You need at least 590K free RAM for everything to work properly.
  The program will run with less RAM, but the number of units you
  can have on each layer will be limited and the help files may
  not display completely.
* A Microsoft or Logitech compatible mouse is recommended, but not required.
* A floating point processor is recommended, but not required. 

Installation of Neural Net Lab

From a distribution diskette, installation of Neural Net Lab is easy:
simply change to the drive containing the disk and type install.

If you downloaded Neural Net Lab, do the following:

1. Unzip the netlab12.zip file into a temporary directory.

2. Change to the directory you unzipped the netlab12.zip file into. Type
    install.

Manual Installation

If, for some reason, the automated install program fails, follow these steps
to install the program:

1. Create a directory on your hard drive. I suggest netlab.

2. Copy the following files to your new directory:

	a) all .pat and .des files

	The commands would look like this (assuming that the installation disk
	is in drive A and c:\netlab is your newly created directory).

	copy a:\*.pat c:\netlab
	copy a:\*.des c:\netlab

	b) all .doc files

	copy a:\*.doc c:\netlab

	c) all .htm and .hlp files

	copy a:\*.h* c:\netlab

	d) copy net.exe

	copy a:\net.exe c:\netlab\net.exe

Included with Neural Net Lab are a PIF and icon for use in Windows. See your
Windows User's Guide for details.

Known Bugs

Well, as far as I know, there aren't any *major* ones. If you find one,
please contact me at 74200.303@compuserve.com from the Internet
or at 74200,303 via Compuserve.

The following "unanticipated features" are being worked on:

   * the drop down list boxes in the file dialogs don't work quite the way
      they should
   * when started in graphics mode, the online manual gets ugly red borders
      on some machines
   * graphics mode refuses to initialize on some machines that it should
      work on.

Release History

08/96 - Version 1.2

* Significantly re-wrote the interface code to get proper menu behavior.
* All windows can now be dragged around.
* Enhanced the file open and file print dialogs.
* Fixed a small problem with the BPN function - the hidden and output
   activations weren't being cleared between patterns.
* Install will now work from a hard drive.
* Online manuals now contain much more information about the 
   implemented networks.
* Program will now run in graphics mode.

04/96 - Version 1.1

* Corrected a problem with the program exiting if the mouse was clicked
   outside the  main menu.
* Added ADALINE to the list of implemented nets.
* Added a bipolar continuous activation function to BPN.
* Added drop down lists of files to all file dialogs.
* Cleaned up the documentation.
* Added a much better installation program. 

03/96 - Version 1.0

* Initial release.