Two other variables are very important to MIDAS - MIDVERS,
which holds the MIDAS
version you use at your site, and MIDASHOME, the root directory for
the MIDAS system code.
These variables should have been set up correctly by your system manager when
MIDAS was installed or use again SETMIDAS in VMS; for Unix these
variables can again be chosen within the inmidas command.
There are many more options for the inmidas command in Unix, which can be
accessed interactively via the man page of inmidas (a complete Midas
installation should also include the setting up of the man pages for
inmidas, gomidas and helpmidas).
The detailed command description is as follows:
SYNOPSIS inmidas [ unit ] [ -h midashome ] [ -r midvers ] [ -d display ] [ -m mid_work ] [ -p/-P/-nop ] [ -noh ] [ -j midas-command-line ] [ -help ] Without arguments, inmidas initiates a MIDAS session with default definitions. Some of these definitions can be modified with arguments in the command line of inmidas or by environment variables. The arguments in the command line override the corresponding environment variables. OPTIONS inmidas has been configured by the Midas system manager at installation time to start a specific release of MIDAS. However, alternative releases can be specified using the command line arguments: -h midashome Home directory for MIDAS. Absolute pathname containing, at least, one release of MIDAS. It may also contain subdirectories for demo and calibration data. -r midvers Release of MIDAS to be executed. It must be a subdirectory under midashome. -d display Specifies another X server for the display and graphical MIDAS windows NOTE: be aware of allowed access to a remote X server using the "xhost" command. -p/-P/-nop Options -p and -P set the MIDAS environment variable MIDOPTION to PARALLEL while option -nop sets it to NOPARALLEL (default: NOPARALLEL). In NOPARALLEL mode all intermediate MIDAS files in the MIDAS startup directory are deleted when starting MIDAS via inmidas. In PARALLEL mode no intermediate files are deleted, and this is necessary to run several MIDAS sessions with the same startup directory. With -P option and if unit is not given the system will select automatically one free unit for you. With -p option and no unit, the user will be requested to enter one. unit Unit to be associated to the MIDAS session (default: 00 only if MIDAS is working in NOPARALLEL mode). Valid values for this option are in the range (00, 01, ..., 99, xa, ..., zz) where numerical values indicate that the user is working in an X11 environment (DISPLAY environment variable or argument -d should be given), and the others indicate an ASCII terminal. -m mid_work Specifies the MIDAS startup directory (default: $HOME/midwork). -noh Starts MIDAS without clearing the terminal and without welcome message. -j midas-command-line midas-command-line will be executed in MIDAS as if it were the first command line typed in the MIDAS monitor. This option sets also the -noh option. NOTE: midas-command-line should be typed between single quotes to be interpreted by inmidas as a single argument and to be passed to the MIDAS monitor as it is. -help Display this help page.
So, to start MIDAS, type INMIDAS on a VMS system or inmidas
[arg1] ... on a Unix system.
This will initialize the MIDAS monitor as follows:
On startup the current MIDAS version and patch level as well as the computer
and operating system you are using are displayed together with a copyright
notice.
Then the prompt string
001>appears on the terminal screen and you are ready to execute any of the available MIDAS commands.
NoteMIDAS commands in the following sections are printed with capital letters. This is just for reasons of readability, i.e., to highlight them. The commands could all be typed in lower case as well.