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Creating a Directory for Your Data
Login and Logout
Log in to lutz by entering your advisers’ last name (all lower case
letters) at the user name prompt followed by a return. The password
prompt will appear. Enter your password, these are the same as for
the other NMR spectrometers, followed by a return. See an experienced
NMR user in your lab or Jeff Ellena to obtain your password.
When you wish to log out, move the cursor to the desktop background,
hold down the right mouse button, drag to Log out... and release
the mouse button.
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Window Manipulation
VNMR, the program for controlling the spectrometer and processing data
uses several windows. The limited video screen size does not allow one
to view the entire contents of each window simultaneously. Therefore
one
must sometimes manipulate the positions and levels of the windows in
order
to view their entire contents. There are 5 major VNMR windows. The
three
windows covering most of the screen are (from top to bottom): the
master
window, the graphics window, and the text window. One often sees two
smaller
windows on the right hand side of the screen: the Acquisition status
window
and the Acquisition window. Windows can be brought to the top level of
the desktop by clicking on the window. If one wishes to temporarily
shrink
a window to reduce desktop crowding, one can move the cursor to the
window
border until it becomes a horizontal or vertical arrow pointing to a
line.
One then holds down the right mouse button, drags to Minimize,
then
release the mouse button. The icons representing the minimized windows
will line up at the top right area of the screen. To restore the
iconified
window to its original state, move the cursor to the icon, and
double
click the left mouse button. More information on window manipulation
can
be found in the Sun Solaris Common Desktop Environment Answerbook. See
Varian and Sun Manuals to go to the AnswerBook index. Then double click on the
following:
Solaris Common Desktop Environment Answerbook
CDE Users Guide
Basic Skills
Working with Windows
Read the text.
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Varian and Sun Manuals
There are both hardcopy and
on-line versions
of the Varian manuals. Do not remove the hardcopy manuals from
Rm.
106. The following manuals are particularly useful for new
users:
VNMR Basic Operation
VNMR System Operation
VNMR Quick Reference
To access the on-line manuals, log in as described in Login and Logout, put
the
cursor on the desktop pattern, hold down the right mouse button, drag
to
Online Manuals and release the mouse button. A new window with
the
on-line manuals will pop up. (This may take 10-20 seconds). When you
are
finished with the manuals, move the cursor to File at the top
left
region of the window. Hold down the right mouse button, drag to
Exit
and release the mouse button.
There are a number of on-line Sun manuals, one can access these in
the following way. Log in, if necessary, as described in Login and Logout, move
the
cursor to the area with small horizontal lines at the extreme bottom
right
of the screen and click the left mouse button to raise this window to
the
top of the desktop. Click on the arrow above the icon
consisting
of books and a question mark. A pop-up menu will appear. Click on
AnswerBook
and an index of Sun manuals will appear. (This may take 10-30
seconds.)
When you are finished with the index and any other Sun manual windows
that
you have opened, close the windows. Windows may be closed by moving
the
cursor to the horizontal bar at the intersection of the top and right
borders
of the window. Hold down the right mouse button, drag to Close,
then release the right mouse button.
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Creating a Directory for Your
Data
Log in as described in Login and
Logout, click on
Main Menu
More
Unix
A Unix window will appear. Enter
mkdir directoryname (ie. your last name)
Move the cursor to the bar at the top left corner of the Unix
window.
Hold down the right mouse button and drag to Close then release
the mouse button. Click on
Main Menu
File
The files and directories in your lab (ie. login) directory will
appear
in the graphics window. If you wish to change to one of the
directories,
click on the directory name and it's background will become blue.
Then
click on Set directory and the highlighted directory will
become
the current working directory.
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