Installation and System Requirements          Last updated: April 1998

[ Download The Knowledge Factory] [Description]

The Knowldge Factory is a Macintosh System 4 to 7 application.

The Knowledge Factory is best run under Mac OS 7.6. It runs successfully under the Basilisk II Mac emulator on Windows.

TKF.sea is a self extracting archive. Double click on the TKF.sea icon and follow the instructions.

The archive contains the following files:

  • The Knowledge Factory - application
  • manual.hdr, manual.dat, manual,evl - data files used within the Manual.pdf
  • hypo.hdr, hypo.dat, hypo.evl - data files containing 100 hypothyroid cases
  • ReadMe - a text file containing features of the application not documented withing the Manual.pdf
  • Manual.pdf - Adobe's Portable document format requires the Adobe Acrobat reader    

The Knowledge Factory:

  • requires no special installation. Simply double click on the The Knowledge Factory icon and the system becomes operational.
  • will run on any Macintosh computer operating under System 4.1 or higher so long as sufficient RAM is available.
  • is initially configured to request 1000K when it is run under Multifinder. This should normally be sufficient for projects examining up to 4000 example cases.

If The Knowledge Factory displays a message during operation stating that it is unable to complete an action due to a shortage of memory, you should increase the application memory size by:

  1. saving the current state of the project;
  2. quitting from The Knowledge Factory;
  3. selecting the The Knowledge Factory icon;
  4. choosing Get Info from the Finder’s File Menu; and
  5. entering the desired value in the Preferred Size box.