To setup your account for simulating SPI ======================================== last update of this file: December 24, 2003 Follow the instructions step by step! create on your home directory a directory for the parameter files: cd mkdir pfiles mkdir data_rep copy the parameter files to your pfiles directory (e.g. from my pfiles): cp /Home/lhea2/beckmann/pfiles/*.par ~/pfiles start the script to initialise your account: source /Home/lhea2/beckmann/init_isdc.osa2.0 or include this into your start-up shell. As the simulation does not produce raw event files, you start directly on your obs_id branch (which I call here as an example og_simu) : cd data_rep mkdir obs cd obs mkdir obs_simu cd obs_simu mkdir spi So you start your simulation under your ~/data_rep/obs/obs_simu directory (when using this structure you will not get confused when also analysing real data). Output will be written into the spi/ subdirectory. Now you can start your SPI simulation. Follow the instructions under http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/beckmann/spi/pages/simu_um.html or do whatever you like!