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Installation and Configuration of WIEN in a BOX

If you have followed the above guidelines for installation, WIEN in a BOX should be ready to use provided you have the Tcl/Tk-Toolkit (version 7.4/4.0 or higher) installed on your system. Use archie or the WWW to find a suitable distribution site, or contact your computing center. You may also try to download Tcl/Tk form the site where the official distribution is located: ftp://ftp.smli.com/pub/tcl/.

We recommend Tcl/Tk version 8.0 or higher.

Start WIEN in a BOX with the command wien and configure it by using the ``Configuration'' menue. Enter the desired values and save them.

Some points to mention are:

WIEN in a BOX saves several variables in startup files ((~/.wienconfig and ~/.wiengoodies), so you don't have to respecify certain options all the time. While this can be a nice feature, it can also lead to problems and unwanted behaviour (e.g. a -c switch is stored and also set in the next case, where you don't want the -c, so that you have to turn it off explicitly.)


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2000-04-11