To start operations at the beam, you need to;

1) create a new directory in which your data files and macros will reside and copy essential macros from a previous directory to the new one

3) open a terminal window for motor commands

4) open another terminal window for directory commands

5) open the EMACS application for macro editing

6) open EPICS for access to beamline controls and scaler counts

1) Create a New Directory

Using either File Manager or a terminal window:

• Create a new directory
• Copy essential macros (*.mx files) from the previous run to the new directory

2) Open terminal window for Motor commands

• open a new terminal window by clicking on the toolbar icon
• change to the newly created directory;

  • > CD BM/Your.New.Directory

• Now start the Motor command;

  • > Motor

3) Open a second terminal window for File commands

• open a new terminal window by clicking on the toolbar icon
• change to the newly created directory;

  • > CD BM/Your.New.Directory

4) Start EMACS macro editor application

• From the second terminal window (NOT the Motor window) start EMACS;

  • > xemacs &

• Working with EMACS macros and gnuplot

5) Open EPICS

• Click on desktop icon
• To view scaler counts window
  • Click "Scaler" on the EPICS menu