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Last Updated by:
Dan Bikos
May 24, 2002

In order to install this lesson, you will need to create a new directory on your hard drive, download a self extracting, compressed file into this directory, and then run this file in order to extract the data and program files. We strongly encourage you to install these files on a "modern" PDW (300 MHz Pentium II or faster, and at least 64 MB of RAM). If your PDW is being used as a Linux machine, please contact us for special installation instructions)

I. To get and install the VISITview LTO lesson files on a Windows system:

1. Create a directory on your computer to hold this lesson.  For example, open a Command Prompt window and type:

        cd \
        mkdir tropical
        cd tropical


You can also create this new directory using the Windows Explorer  or My Computer.
 

2. Get the self-extracting file (it is about 34MB in size) by aiming your Web browser to
ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/bikos/visit/trop_17may02.exe
3. Be sure to put this trop_17may02.exe file into the same directory that you created in step 1.

 
4. To extract all the image and program files, just run the trop_17may02.exe file by either:
• opening My Computer  or the Windows Explorer and clicking on the filename trop_17may02.exe
                                            - or -
• opening a Command Prompt window, typing cd \tropical, and then typing trop_17may02

1. open the "Display" Control Panel and make sure your Settings for the Desktop Area is 800 by 600 pixels or greater
2. click on the visit.bat filename from My Computer  or Windows Explorer.


         Alternatively, you could open a Command Prompt window, and type:

     cd \tropical
          visit

     

3. A ViewClient window should appear, with a large red triangular pointer in the main window and drawing/animation controls below. If a VISITview server is actively hosting the tropical session, then you will also see images in the ViewClient window. The session will last about 2 hours.



4. Dial into the conference call (consult email with setup instructions for the phone number).

III. To run this tropical lesson locally (for example, to train others in your office who were unable to attend the group session), open a Command Prompt window and type visitlocal. A ViewClient window will appear which includes additional controls to load Selected lesson pages (or to move to the Next or Previous page).

During the lesson, if a message "Communications problem - restart" appears at the bottom of the ViewClient window, then you will need to close out that window (double click over the icon in the upper left corner), and then enter the visit command again to restart the ViewClient application.

In the Command Prompt window where you enter the visit command, you will see various communications message appearing; for the most part, you may ignore these.
 
 

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