From: MDS, INC.; 218 Quinlan #304; Kerrville, TX 78028 Re: The SIMON Program. SIMON is a very good program for mathematical modelling & continuous simulation of any models that can be defined by ordinary differential equations. SIMON was sent to us on a disk, directly from the authors in Hungary, with premission to distribute this Shareware version. We are pleased to do what we can to assist the authors in bringing this program to the attention of users in the United States. Because we will be distributing this program in an archived (.ZIP) format or on non-system disks we are adding installation information not covered in the documentation. INSTALLATION: SIMON can be used on either floppy disk or hard drive systems. If this copy of SIMON was in a .ZIP format, you will already have unzipped the file to be able to read this. The following files should be present: READ1ST.MDS (this file), SIMON.EXE, SIMON.DOC and DEMO1.MOD through DEMO5.MOD files. a) Floppy Systems. 1) You may, if you wish, copy the SIMON files onto a System Disk. If so, the SIMON.EXE & .DOC files should be in the root directory & a directory must be made for each DEMO.MOD file. The directory must have the same name as the .MOD file. (i.e., \DEMO1 for DEMO1.MOD to \DEMO5 for DEMO5.MOD). Use the DOS command MD \DEMO1 (etc.) to create the directories. Then copy each DEMO-.MOD file to its own directory. If such a disk is prepared then the .DOC instructions can be followed directly for running SIMON. 2) SIMON can also be copied into any directory you wish - such as \SIMON. If SIMON is placed in a directory other than the root directory, then each DEMOx.MOD file must be copied into a sub-directory of the parent directory. For example if the parent directory is \SIMON, then there must be 5 sub-directories of \SIMON\DEMO1 through \SIMON\DEMO5. Copy each .MOD file into its own sub-directory. To run SIMON, change to the directory that contains SIMON.EXE and type SIMON & press the (Enter) key. b) Hard Drive Systems. The installation for using SIMON on a hard drive system is essentially the same as for 2) above. We hope that you will enjoy SIMON and benefit from it, and that if you use it you will send the registration fee to the authors. We are certain that the authors would like you to share this program with other users. However, if you do share it please send this file with the program. Sincerely MDS, INC. 6/21/90