2.2 installing MPL for Windows

Before installing this new version of MPL, please uninstall first any previous versions of you have already installed.

To install MPL for Windows go to the directory you saved the distribution file, the installation process will start once you double click on the distribution file. The installation program will ask a number of simple questions such as where to install the software and then copy the files to the hard disk on your machine. It will create entries for MPL in the Start menu.

Once installation is completed the following for MPL are copied to the hard disk as follows:

Mplwin4 directory:

   Mplwin42.exe   Contains the MPL for windows application.
   Mplwin42.hlp   On-line help file for MPL.
   Mplwin42.cnt   Contents file for the on-line help.
   Mplwhat.hlp    Context sensitive help file for MPL.
   *.mpl          Contains sample input files, with full formulations of
                  various Lp problems.  These files tell you how to use many
                  of the MPL features.
   *.dat          Contains the data files that accompany the sample model
                  files.
   Mplwin42.ini   initialization file for mplwin that stores the current
                  setup.
   *.opt          Option files for some of the solvers supported by MPL.
   Tutorial       Directory containing sample models for the on-line tutorial.

Windows directory:

   Mpl*.pif       piF files for running solvers in a DOS window.
   Mpl*.bat       Batch files for running solvers in a DOS window.