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Introduction – Compaq Graphical User Interface mar345 User Manual

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mar345 Program Manual

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1. Introduction

The program mar345 is a fully menu driven graphical user interface (GUI) for collecting and
displaying images on a mar345 imaging plate system.

The program is provided as binary executable for several computer platforms and operating
systems:

Silicon Graphics:

IRIX 5.x, 6.x

Digital:

Compaq Tru Unix 4.x, 5.x

Linux:

RedHat 5.x, 6.x, SuSE 6.x

1.1 Computer Requirements

− Motif 1.2.x shared libraries (except Linux).
− 8/16/24/32−bit colors X−windows terminal with 1280x1024 pixels.
− Standard Helvetica and Symbol fonts.
− 96 MB RAM memory or more.

1.2 Environment

The program relies on definitions of the following environment variables:

MARTABLEDIR

Location of the scanner specific calibration files mar2300.XXX
and mar3450.XXX and the corresponding configuration file
config.XXX (where XXX = MAR_SCANNER_NO ).

MAR_SCANNER_NO

Three digit serial number, e.g. 049.

MARLOGDIR

Location of the log output files.

MARHELPDIR

Location of interactive help files.

The program relies on the correct network setup, i.e. the mar345 scanner must be accessible
by ping and telnet with IP−address 192.0.2.1.

For a description of the setup of the mar345 software suite, see the "mar345 Installation
Guide
".