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A nice Portable statistical software: Past

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:45 am
by pierluigi.polese
PAST is a nice free, easy-to-use data analysis package aimed at paleontology but it includes common statistical, plotting and modelling functions. It is one file portable executable.
Web site:
http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/

Download the single EXE file to a folder of your choice and launch the application by double-clicking on past.exe

Pierluigi Polese

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:05 am
by AlephX
Hi, Pierluigi Polese,

the application seems to be portable. It does not write settings anywhere.

It´s a quite complex and interesting application!

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:26 am
by Andrew Lee
It does write something to the user profile folder:
http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/install.html

When you exit PAST, a file called 'pastsetup'will be automatically placed in your personal folder (for example 'My Documents' in Windows 95/98), containing the last used file directories.
But that doesn't affect its portability, so I will be adding it to the database in a moment.