Tutorial Preparation

This page details the steps needed to get the tutorial ready. Needless to say the off-line code has to be set up but the assumption is that the tutee is working at a site where this has already been done.

The following environmental variables have to be defined:-

MINOS_TUTORIAL_DATA should point to a directory (local or AFS) that holds the data files to be used.
Default: /afs/fnal.gov/files/data/minos/d01/minos_tutorial_data
MINOS_TUTORIAL_MACROS should point to a directory (local or AFS) that holds the macros to be used.
Default: $SRT_PUBLIC_CONTEXT/WebDocs/Companion/overview/macros

It is recommended that you make a local copy of the data files and point MINOS_TUTORIAL_DATA to that rather than rely on AFS.

Video Preparation

Pete Border prepared the ROOT videos. They can be played directly from the web or they can be downloaded from

  /afs/fnal.gov/files/data/minos/d01/minos_tutorial_videos.

and then played locally.

Viewing from Linux

They can be viewed using mplayer - see download page http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html

They need codec Dvix 5.0.5 or better that can be obtained from http://www.divx.com/divx/linux

Installation of the codec is simple e.g.:-

         cd $INSTALLATION
         tar xzvf divx4linux-std-20030428.tar.gz
         cd divx4linux-20030428/
         su
         ./install.sh

Viewing from Windows

The videos should run from the Windows media player.
You may need to download the codec Dvix 5.1.1. See the Standard DivX Codec(FREE) in http://www.divx.com/divx

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