Installing the FMS Electronic Manual

fmsman52.tgz

In order to install it on your system, you should perform the following steps:

1. Transfer fmsman52.tgz into the directory above where you want the manaul. You may do this by a download, ftp or cp operation.
   NOTE: File fmsman52.tgz MUST be transferred as a binary file.

2. Decompress the file as follows:

   % gunzip fmsman52.tgz

   This will change the file to fmsman52.tar.

3. Expand the TAR file:

   %tar -vfx fmsman.tar

   This will create a subdirectory called fmsman. In directory fmsman you should find the following:

   File	Contents
   FMS_Manual.html	The home page for the manual
   doc	The subdirectory containing the manual text files
   exm	The subdirectory containing the examples
   img	The subdirectory containing the images as .gif files.
   par	The subdirectory containing all the FMS Parameter descriptions.
   sub	The subdirectory containing all the FMS subroutine descriptions.

4. If you want to install the manual on another or different system, transfer the directory fmsman and all subdirectories to the target system. You must preserve the relative directory structure on the target system.

   NOTE: the /img directory contains all .gif files, which must be transferred as binary. All other files should be transferred as ascii.

5. Set a bookmark in your WEB browser pointing to the file FMS_Manual.html.

   On Windows systems, just double click on the file. When the page displays, select "Add to Favorites..." under the Favorites tab.

   On Unix or Linux systems, enter the address pointing to file FMS_Manual.html. This will be of the form

   file:///path/fmsman/FMS_Manual.html

   where

   /path is the path to the fmsman directory.