Running HuBEd Applications on Your Machine

• Hardware and Software Requirements
• Overview
• First steps
• Run the Apps
  1. Downloading the Files
  2. Running the Application
  3. cleaning Up
• Try Out!

3D-HuBEd applications currently require the following environment:

• A Silicon Graphics Workstation
  An Indigo2 or above is recommended.
• At least 32MB of memory
• At least 10MB of disk space in your home directory
• IRIX 5.2 and above
• Japanese GL Support (for current version)

Overview

First Steps

1. Edit your mailcap file to enable the execution of "shell scripts."
2. Create a subdirectory named "hubed" under your home directory.

Run the Apps

1. Download the necessary files in your hubed directory by clicking on the Download button.
2. Start the application by clicking on the snapshot image.
3. Delete the files when finished by clicking on the Cleanup button.

First Steps

1. Editing your mailcap file

   3D-HuBEd uses C-Shell scripts to start the 3D applications. Edit your mailcap file (usually found as ".mailcap" in your home directory) to enable the execution of C-Shell scripts.
   1. Look for a file named ".mailcap" in your home directory. If you do not have one, create one.
   2. Look for the following line in this file. If it is not there, add it to the end of the file.
      application/x-csh; csh -f %s

2. Creating The Directory

   Before downloading any of the files you must create a place to put them. Go to your home directory (hereinafter called $HOME) and create a directory named hubed. Once it is created, you can skip this step unless it is deleted.

           % cd
           % mkdir hubed
   

Run the Apps

1. Downloading the Files

   Each application has a Download button. Click this button to get a copy of the necessary files. When your browser asks for a file name, use the name written next to the Download button and place it inside your hubed directory.

2. Running the Application

   Once the files have been downloaded, you are ready to run the application. Click on the snapshot image of the application to start a "shell script" (a short program) that will unpack the data files and execute the application program. The shell script will tell you what it is going to do and ask you if it is all right to do it. Click on OK to let it go!

3. Cleaning Up

   At the end of each chapter is a cleanup button. Click this button to erase the files you have downloaded for the chapter. This is recommended to save your disk space.

Try it Out!!

1. Download

   the 3-D figure as: $HOME/hubed/mach.tar.gz

2. Click Snapshot Image

   
   

3. Cleaning up

   Click this button to erase the 3-D figure files for this chapter. This will save your disk space.