Installation notes for MIDAS
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Please follow the instructions in general.readme before attempting to use MIDAS.


Add the location of the MIDAS startup scripts to your path (or your login script)

        PATH=${PATH}:/astro/bin     (bash shell syntax)
	export PATH

        setenv PATH ${PATH}:/astro/bin  (tcsh syntax)

Either

   - Add the location of the MIDAS shared libraries to the search path (or login script)

       LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/astro/midas/95NOV/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}    (bash)
       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

       setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /astro/midas/95NOV/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}    (tcsh)
   
   - If you understand the implications of modifying /etc/ld.so.conf
     you can add the following line to the beginning of /etc/ld.so.conf

	/astro/midas/95NOV/lib


If you are running X-windows you can now type 

	helpmidas

to start the help graphical user interface.



To start MIDAS you can now type 

	inmidas

MIDAS has extensive online help and a set of tutorials


From within MIDAS try typing HELP or TUTORIAL/HELP to get started.


MIDAS includes a set of verification tests you can run to verify it functions
correctly on your system. Change directory to somewhere with plenty of disk
space, startup MIDAS and type 

	@ vericopy
	@@ veriall

The full set of verification procedures takes a while to run particularly if
you only have 8Mb of memory!



Extensive documentation (printable) is available in the directory

	/astro/midas/doc

and online both from within MIDAS and in the integrated HTML documentation
(see htmldocs.readme).