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Step 1 for Windows PubCrawler:
Downloading and Testing.
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Please report problems to pubcrawlerREMOVECAPShelp@gmail.com
Downloading
1. If you don't have Perl installed on your PC:
Download Perl for Win32 - check out the Perl site for the latest version.
Recommended is the complete package from the ActiveState download-site, which includes all the Perl-modules,
necessary for HTTP-connections. This is freeware. Install it on your PC.
2. Download
WinPubCrawler -- the Perl script and associated files (a self-extracting archive). This is freeware.
(Upgraders: Please read the README file!
3. Extract the PubCrawler components by double-clicking on WinPubCrawler.exe
- This will copy the files pubcrawl.pl and pubcrawl.config into the directory C:\PubCrawler by default.
If this doesn't work, you can also download the single components in an uncompressed version (get pubcrawl.pl, get pubcrawl.config).
Testing
4. Run the program in "check-mode":
Open a DOS-box and change into the PubCrawler-directory (e.g.
cd
C:\pubcrawler)
Start the program by entering
perl pubcrawl.pl -check
(You might have to specify the complete path for perl, like C:\perl\bin\perl pubcrawl.pl -check)
The messages appearing in the DOS-box will tell you if everything is OK, or if there are any problems.
5. If you got no errors, run the program again without the -check option but in verbose mode:
perl pubcrawl.pl -v
You should see a lot of text appearing in the DOS-box, describing
communications between the program and NCBI. When PubCrawler has finished running
it will tell you so. This might take a few minutes.
6. View the output by opening the file "pubcrawler_output.html" with
Netscape (File -> Open ->
Page in Navigator). You should see the results of the
set of searches specified in the file "pubcrawl.config" that is distributed
with the program.
If it looks OK, go onto step 
7. If it's not working, look in the DOS-Box for error
messages. There is probably something wrong with your network, or
you need to specify a proxy. If the check-mode (point 4 above) did
not report any errors, see PubCrawler's Technical
Description for suggestions about how to manually configure the network
settings.
For your information....
The PubCrawler folder contains:
pubcrawl.config, a configuration file (contains details of the
searches to be made)
pubcrawl.pl, the Perl source code
After the program has been run, it will also contain:
pubcrawler_output.html, the web page with the results
pubcrawler_log.html a web page logging what happened when the program
ran
pubcrawl.db, a database of PubMed and GenBank entries that have
been met (and when)
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