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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Dear all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">I am a new guy to the VisIt. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">I want to use it for the FLASH code. But I don¡¯t know how
to build the plugin.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">I follow the ¡°readme¡± in the directory ¡°FLASH¡±, and put
the directory ¡°FLASH¡± in /home/walli/walli/. The VisIt is in the directory
/home/walli/walli/visit2.2. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">But I don¡¯t understand the ¡°BUILDING¡± step. The following
is the step:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">The first two of the three commands,
below, are part of the VisIt release package, and are in
<visit_dir>/bin.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">Execute them in the order shown.
They will build the plugin in this ¡°FLASH¡± directory, and install the plugin
libraries in ~/.visit/<architecture>/plugins/databases.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#ff0000><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>% xm12info ¨Cclobber
FLASH.xml</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#ff0000><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>% xm12makefile ¨Cclobber
FLASH.xml</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#ff0000><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>%
make</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">I don¡¯t know which directory I should type the command
¡°xm12info ¨Cclobber FLASH.xml¡±. When I type it in the directory ¡°FLASH¡±, it tells
me that: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">[walli@node01 FLASH]$ xm12info
-clobber FLASH.xml</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">-bash: xm12info: command not
found</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">When I type it in the
directory/home/walli/walli/visit2.2/bin, it tells me that:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">[walli@node01 bin]$ xml2info
-clobber FLASH.xml</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">-bash: xml2info: command not
found</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">So I really don¡¯t know where to type the commands. Could
you help me about it?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">My system is CentOS 5.5 (linux). </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Best wishes,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Zhang Chao</FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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