RAPID Analysis Program for Investment Decisions

For people running the LINUX operating system, here is a version of rapid for X-windows. The C source code is included.

rapid602.tar.gz

Listed below is an older version, if the above one did not work for you: If the program (below), which is called xrapid, fails, then type `make' to recompile it for your system and it will probably work. If you are missing a library that Rapid needs, then type: ldd xrapid (enter) to see which one is missing. E-mail me if you have compiler errors to show me. 

rapid-libc6.tar.gz
How to install RAPID:

pwd (enter) (Install in a short subdir: count the chars that pwd shows. It must be 17 or less.)

tar xvzpf rapid.tar.gz (enter)

cd rapid

./xrapid (enter) (You must have your X-windows running for this to work.

If these libraries are missing from your system:
libgd.so.1.8 => not found
libpng.so.2 => not found

You can get libpng from here:  http://rpmfind.net
You can get libgd from here:  http://freshmeat.net/projects/gd/?branch_id=3111

You must run /sbin/ldconfig after installing any new libraries.


MSwindows data partitions:
If you have your data in a DOS/MSwindows partition, then go into RAPID configuration and set the DATA directory to /dosc/rapid.dat and save the settings. Now you can read all of your current graphs without going into MSwindows. You should change your /etc/fstab to mount your msdos partition with "default,umask=0" (not just default) because this will give you permission to write on the msdos partition.  Get away from using a DOS/MSWindows partition for >1000 graphs. It is not as reliable or as fast as a Linux partition.

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I include the source code under GPL, like Richard Stallman, and the GNU people as my effort to support LINUX and GNU software.

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david at rapidcharting.com .

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