R. Clayton (rclayton@monmouth.edu)
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Mpd, the language used in Andrews' book, is now available in the class
directory /export/home/class/cs-598/mpd. It has been made for both solaris and
linux systems (rockhopper is a multi-cpu box running linux). The easiest way
to get access to the programs is to put
export PATH=/export/home/class/cs-598/mpd/$(uname)/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=/export/home/class/cs-598/mpd/$(uname)/man:$MANPATH
in your .profile if you're using ksh or bash. This will automatically adjust
the path depending on the machine to which you log in. If you run sh, you
should use
PATH=/export/home/class/cs-598/mpd/`uname`/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=/export/home/class/cs-598/mpd/`uname`/man:$MANPATH
export PATH MANPATH
You need to do a similar thing for csh, but I don't know what it is.
The doc directory contains information on mpd, including a tutorial. Point
your browser at index.html for a description (these are copies of the mpd pages
from the Arizona web site). The examples directory contains the complete code
from the chapters in Andrews' book, as well as other examples. I didn't build
the animator code, but the graphics code does work. The tar file for the
source is also available, so you take it home and build it your system
(unix-based only, no windows implementations). Assuming your MANPATH
environment variable is set as shown above, typing "man mpd" will get you the
man page describing the commands available.
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