Obtaining and Unpacking the Distribution

Locating the Distribution

Decide where in your filesystem you wish to place the SIPE-2 directory tree. Our examples assume that you are placing the directory in /usr/local/. You may wish to substitute a different location for the value of SRI below.

        setenv SRI /usr/local/
        cd $SRI

The above cd command is important, as the following ftp and tar commands will create an aic-export directory in your current directory, which will hold all SIPE-related directories.

Obtaining the Distribution

You will obtain the distribution by FTPing it via Internet. After a license has been signed, SRI will provide you with instructions that specify the site and directory from which to FTP. Use the FTP program to connect appropriately, then:

Log in as user anonymous; give your email address as the password
Connect to the appropriate directory
Put FTP in binary mode (usually simply typing binary to FTP will do the trick)
Retrieve the file sipe.tar.Z (or the filename given to you). (Do not be surprised if you cannot list the contents of the directory -- the file is present, but you should not be able to list the directory.)
Retrieve (optionally) documentation files. The files named aic-sys-spec document the SRI system code that provides version control and a patch facility. It is highly recommended that this documentation be retrieved. These documentation files are provided in 3 different formats, so there are .tex.Z .ps.Z and .dvi.Z files --- pick the one easiest to print at your site. The files are compressed and must be uncompressed before printing. (Print dvi files with lpr -d and ps files with lpr, and run latex on the tex files.)
Here is a listing of the documentation files available for ftp:
```
aic-sys-spec.dvi.Z
aic-sys-spec.ps.Z
aic-sys-spec.tex.Z
installation.text
Readme-to-convert-pre-95-release
```

Unpacking the Distribution

Unpack the distribution file on a Unix system by entering the following command as shown (substituting the name of your tar file):

        uncompress -c -v sipe.tar.Z | tar xf -

The distribution tar file can be deleted after successful installation.

David E. Wilkins wilkins@ai.sri.com

Last modified: Fri Jan 3 17:58:08 1997