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Installing ROBOT on a UNIX machine

ROBOT has mainly tested on a Sun. Limited tests on DECstations and Alphas have been made and a LINUX version has also been tried out. A more complete description of the installation procedure is to be found in the main README file included in the source distribution. The distributed ROBOT package contains three main directories: (i) Robot - containing the main code, (ii) ARK - containing a heavily modified version of the ARK plotting package, (iii) Fitsio, this has copies of Bill Pence's FORTRAN FITS routines. If you want to use the FITS routines in your own code to ensure you have the latest versions of the FITS code it is advised to obtain them directly from Bill Pence (ftp to heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov). (iv) Docs - several pieces of documentation including this file, a ``man'' page, and robot.info (for real time help).

To build ROBOT move to the Robot directory. There will be a Makefile there. If you are lucky you will just have to type ``make'' and everything will compile. However, it may be necessary to make some changes. If you are not running OpenWindows when you do make you will first have to set a couple of environment variables. e.g.
$ setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/openwin3/lib
$ setenv OPENWINHOME /usr/local/openwin3
As ROBOT uses both 'C' and FORTRAN it is preferable to have compilers for both of these. The f2c program may also be used, however, to convert the FORTRAN to 'C' (see makefile.f2c). If you don't already have the XView package this can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org. Binaries and ported source for XView on DECstations can be found at media-lab.mit.edu. f2c can be obtained by ftp from research.att.com (log in as netlib instead of anonymous).



Robin Corbet
Sat May 3 16:56:08 EDT 1997