Appendices

Appendix A

Features of the command line

• Pressing <TAB> on a partially completed command will complete the command if it is unambiguous, otherwise pressing <TAB> a second time will list possible options.
• Pressing <TAB> also works for partially completed file/directory paths
• Pressing <Ctrl>H on a partially complete command will give a one line summary of all commands matching that pattern
• Pressing <Ctrl>K will start a "command keyword" help search - type in a one word query, and all commands whose description matches this will be printed
• Pressing <Ctrl>R will start an incremental reverse search of previously typed commands
• Pressing <Ctrl>L will clear the screen and redraw the current line at the top

Additional features

• Pressing <Ctrl>_ will undo a last edit/change you made to the command line
• Pressing <Ctrl>X<Ctrl>U will also undo the last edit/change
• Pressing <Ctrl>U will discard the rest of the line starting from the current cursor position
• Pressing <Ctrl>A will move the cursor to the beginning of line
• Pressing <Ctrl>E will move to end of the current line

Appendix B

Supported Data File Formats

Open GENIE supports access to the file formats listed below:

• ISIS Raw File (Read only)
• GENIE-II Intermediate file (Read only)
• Open GENIE Intermediate File (Read and Write, Machine independent)
• Open GENIE ASCII File (Read and Write)
• HDF Files (Write only)

These files can all be read directly with the Get() and Put() commands by specifying numbered or named data elements. Open GENIE supports access to any format of ASCII file via the Asciifile() command.

Appendix C

Supported Graphics Devices

Below is a list of graphics devices currently supported by Open GENIE, these rely upon the PGPLOT package and it may well be possible to use other pgplot drivers with Open GENIE. In the distributed version of Open GENIE we have only checked out the functioning of the devices below on all platforms. To see other devices which may be available on a particular version of Open GENIE type

>> Device/Open "Help"

Appendix D

Supported Graphics Attributes

Fonts

Open GENIE uses the PGPLOT fonts when drawing fonts onto the open graphics device, currently, the supported fonts available are:

$NORMAL
$ROMAN
$ITALIC
$SCRIPT

Note: For accessing special scientific/Greek characters within these fonts, the documented PGPLOT escape sequences may be used in the Open GENIE text string being plotted. For example "Time-of-Flight (\gms)" where "\gm" produces a Greek m character. For further details see the PGPLOT documentation, available at ftp://astro.caltech.edu/pub/pgplot.

Markers

Markers types available for plotting.

$POINT
$PLUS
$STAR
$CIRCLE
$CROSS
$BOX

Linestyles

Linestyles available for plotting.

$FULL
$DASH
$DOT_DASH
$DOT

Colours

Pre-defined colours available for the graphics by default. For using further colours in the graphics, see the Open Genie reference manual.

$BLACK
$WHITE
$RED
$GREEN
$BLUE
$CYAN
$MAGENTA
$YELLOW
$ORANGE
$LIGHT_GREEN
$SEA_GREEN
$LIGHT_BLUE
$PURPLE
$CRIMSON
$DARK_GRAY
$LIGHT_GRAY

Appendix E

Commands required for installing Open GENIE from a CD ROM

Please note that these commands vary depending on the version of the operating system you are using.

Installing on UNIX with Digital UNIX

Initially find the CD

>file /dev/rrz*c

and look for an RRD device e.g. RRD42 on /dev/rrz4c then mount the CD

>mount -t cdfs -o ro,rrip /dev/rz4c /mnt

then get the kit

>cp /mnt/osf/genie-1.1.31F

Note: you will need to have the CDFS kernel option enabled.

Installing on VMS

Type in, for example

$mount DKA400:GENIE11
$copy sys$scratch: /log