CERN Program Library Long Writeup Q124

CSPACK

Client-Server

Routines and Utilities

Version 1.32 (February 1994)

Application Software Group

Computers and Network Division

CERN Geneva, Switzerland

Preliminary remarks

This Complete Reference of the CSPACK system, consists of four parts:

1. An overview of the system.
2. A step by step tutorial introduction to the system.
3. A reference guide, describing each command in detail.
4. An installation and management guide.

The CSPACK system is implemented on various mainframes and personal workstations. In particular, versions exist for IBM VM/CMS, VAX/VMS and various Unix-like platforms, such as APOLLO, Cray, DECstation 3100, IBM RS6000, Silicon Graphics, MIPs and SUN.

This document has been produced using LaTeX [1] with the CERNMAN style option. All pictures shown are produced with PAW and are included in PostScript [2] format in the manual.

Acknowledgements

Many people have contributed to the CSPACK package. The main authors are: René Brun, Olivier Couet, Mike Gerard, Frédéric Hemmer, Burkhard Holl, Catherine Magnin, Ben Segal, Jamie Shiers, Jonathan Wood (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

The author is grateful to the many people who contributed to the CSPACK project, through discussions or by providing code and assistance.

I am particularly grateful to Michel Goossens as document editor.

Related Documents

This document can be complemented by the following documents:

• FATMEN User Guide
• CMZ User Guide
• PATCHY User Guide
• HBOOK User Guide
• PAW User Guide
• KUIP - Kit for a User Interface Package
• ZEBRA - Data Structure Management System
• The FATMEN Report
• TMS - The CERN Tape Management System
• The MUSCLE Report
• Computing at CERN in the 1990s

• Contents
• List of Tables
• CSPACK - Overview
• CSPACK - Tutorial
• CSPACK - User Guide
• CSPACK - Installation and Management Guide
• References
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