Saturday, November 8, 2008

Paradox 7.0 Installation on XP

SLDF uses Paradox as database backend. Although you can export the SLDF database to dBase for further data analysis, doing queries on the original database can be done quite easy with Paradox.
Unfortunately, installing Paradox 7.0 is not possible on Windows XP PCs (Error "Not enough disk space") without using a loophole: You just have to change the TEMP environment variable so that it points to a disk drive with less than 2GB. You can do that in a command window ("set TEMP=E:\"). Then run the setup from this command window - that's it.
The root cause for the installation problem is an error in the calculation algorithm the installation uses. The installer has been written in times where nobody thought that a normal hard disk would store 2 or more GB. Thus, the calculation fails with free disk space above 2 GB (=2^31-1) due to a simple integer number overflow.

5 comments:

Ramya said...

How to find the diameter of retinal vessels using MATLAB or can i able to get the SLDF software CD

Dr. J.Welzenbach said...

Please contact

Prof. Dr. Roland E. Schmieder (Joanna Harazny)
Clinical Research Centre
Department of Nephrology and Hypertensiology
University Hospital Erlangen
Krankenhausstrasse 12
D-91054 Erlangen
Germany
Email: Roland.Schmieder@uk-erlangen.de

Dr. J.Welzenbach said...

SLDF doesn't provide an interface that can be used by MATLAB.
But you could read the diameter values from database.

Ramya said...

can i able to get the SLDF software

Dr. J.Welzenbach said...

See previous answer: Contact Prof. R. Schmieder.