Note: In windows, there is no cat command, use 'more' instead. Pipe operator still applies in windows.
A modified tutorial for Windows 7/Vista; first you need to call up strawberry perl terminal and navigate to tableviewer directory
first, create a 3x3 table (use a random seed so that this step is reproducible)
> perl bin\make-table -row 3 -seed 123 -brief > samples\table-basic.txt
# let's see the table
> more samples\table-basic.txt
lbl A B C
A 262 209 168
B 28 86 45
C 58 95 69
# now parse the table
> more samples\table-basic.txt | bin\parse-table > tmp.txt
# now create configuration and data files
> more tmp.txt | bin\make-conf -dir data
# let's see what was created
> dir data/
Directory of c:\circos-0.55\tools\tableviewer\data
01/24/2012 10:35 PM <DIR> .
01/24/2012 10:35 PM <DIR> ..
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 255 all.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 261 cap.col.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 247 cap.row.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 740 cells.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 255 col.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 62 colors.conf
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 598 colors_percentile.conf
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 72 karyotype.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 249 row.txt
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 48 scaling.conf
01/24/2012 10:35 PM 33 segmentlabel.txt
11 File(s) 2,820 bytes
2 Dir(s) 20,571,529,216 bytes free
# now draw the image (circos.conf is already defined to use the data files from data/) (suppose you are still in 'tableviewer' directory
> perl ..\..\bin\circos -conf etc/circos.conf -outputfile table-basic.png
