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RELASE_INFO.RRF is required to be present for the load utility to work.

Step

Action

1

Using a web or ftp client go to the URL: ftp://ftp1.nci.nih.gov/pub/cacore/EVS/
screenshot of FTP directory

2

Select the version of NCI Metathesaurus RRF you wish to download. Save the file to a directory on your machine.

3

Extract the RRF files from the zip download and save in a directory on your machine. This directory will be referred to as NCI_METATHESAURUS_DIRECTORY.

Info
titleNote

4

Using the LexEVS utilities load the NCI Thesaurus:

Code Block
{LEXEVS_HOME}/admin

For Windows installation use the following command:

Code Block
LoadMetaBatch.bat –in "file:///{NCI_METATHESAURUS_DIRECTORY}/"

For Linux installation use the following command:

Code Block
LoadMetaBatch.sh –in "file:///{NCI_THESAURUS_DIRECTORY}/"

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