Mac, Unix and

physics programs

Magne GuttormsenDepartment of Physics and SAFE

University of Oslo

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Mac commands

●Cmd F, find a file name or content of a file

●Cmd , change screen

●Cmd I, information about file/folder

●Cmd ->| (tab), see running programs

●Cmd <- (back space), put file in trash

●Cmd K, mount a directory, e.g. smb://tid.uio.no/ or afp://safe-mac-01.uio.no

Use Finder to inspect your file system

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Mac set-up

To changesettings, click on SystemPreferences

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Hidden Unix

●Open a terminal (or X-terminal)

●Here, you can use Unix commands: ls, cd, cmd...

●Hidden dot-files, like .bashrc, is seen by ls -la in your home directory called e.g. /Users/magneg

●Go to desktop by cd Desktop, or programs by cd /Applications

●Unix programs starts by typing e.g. mama. Mac programs are started by clicking the icon (if you hate clicking, write e.g. open /Applications/Calculator.app)

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Organizing

●Drag your favourite icons to the dock

●Use View menu in Finder to organize the Desktop

●Make folders within e.g. Documents, to organize your documents etc.

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More Mac help

●USIT web pages: http://www.usit.uio.no/it/mac/

●Apple Norway: http://www.apple.com/no/

●Ask a friend

●Help menu on your Mac:

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More than 7000 Fink programs

●Web site: http://www.finkproject.org/

●All Unix Open source software for MacOs

●Some commands in Terminal window:

●Search for a program: fink list latex

●Update your database: fink selfupdate

●Update all old programs: fink update-all

●Install new package: fink install latex-make

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Run offline

●Type offline in a terminal window where your event files are located

●Load your sorting function

●Use Tape menu to select Disk file

●Use Spectra menu to Clear spectra

●Push I to get info

●Push Run, Sort, Files... to start

●When finished, push Dump

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Sorting essentials

●The dE and E energies for each event are read from the event file

●These are sorted into dE-E bananas by pointers

/* ****************************************************** *//* Banana matrices ALFNA and ALFGE fpr telescopes 1 and 5 *//* ****************************************************** */

if(telenu==1 && de<512 ){++*(pansp+e+de*2048);

}if(telenu==5 && de<512 ){

++*(pagsp+e+de*2048);}

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Run mama

Type mama in a terminal window

Summary●This was just a start...

●Several programs are essential for the Oslo method:

●Data taking: eventbuilder, sirius, spy, update

●Offline analyses: reduc, offline, kin, mama, root, paw

●Interpretation: fitone, robin, normalization, d2rho, counting, rhosigchi, thermo, combi, ...

●Other tools: c, c++, g95, latex , Excel, Word, Adobe, ...