[From Bill Powers (2009.01.26.0940 MST)]
To all who have installed the programs for the new book on their hard
disks, or who may do so with an early copy of the book:
Attached is a zipped file which should replace the folder
c:\LCS3programs\Demo4-1-TrackAnalyze
and all its contents. If you unzip it to the C drive it should
replace the correct folder.
Let me know about any problems.
You might never have discovered this bug, but it causes a new table
of disturbance patterns to be generated each time the program is
restarted. This means that if you try to repeat a run with, say,
disturbance number 1 on two different occasions, and have restarted
the program between runs, you will not get the same disturbance
pattern as you're supposed to. Normally, after the file 'distable'
has been created, the program simply reads it to find the desired
disturbance pattern, so the same patterns can be used over and over
and at different times. To get a new pattern, just delete the file
'distable' and the TrackAnalyze program will regenerate it the next
time the program runs. You can save copies of 'distable' under
different names if you wish -- the program always looks for just
plain 'distable' and uses it if it exists, otherwise generating a new
file of that name with new randomly-generated disturbance patterns.
Thanks to Rick Marken for discovering this bug and reporting it to me.
Best,
Bill P.
trackanalyze.zip (1.61 MB)