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
".

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