Getting Started

Getting Started with the E891 Computing Environment

This gives new users to E891 the directions for setting up and using the E891 environment for their personal accounts on the physgi machines. If you don't have an account on the physgi machines, you should apply for one.

Setting up your environment

First you will need certain environment variables and path definitons which are special to E891. To get these, new users should put the following line in their .login file:

	> source /usr1/people/e891/mgr/e891_setup 
This line must appear after any path assignments you make in your .login.

Docmentation

The World Wide Web (WWW) documentation system (which you are looking at now) is the primary means of online help in E891. To run the Xwindows graphical interface to WWW call XMosaic, simply type
	> setenv DISPLAY {yourXDisplayName}:0.0
	> Mosaic &
For a more detailed explanation of how to run Mosaic, look at this document.