1. Installation Instructions - Unix & Linux

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doc/ - This directory contains the Gridgen User Manual, Glyph Reference Manual, … ware type of your installation (for example, linux for PC workstations …

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Planning Your Installation
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1. Installation Instructions - Unix &
Linux
There are two types of Gridgen installations: a First Time Installation and a Maintenance Release Installation.
?A First Time Installation involves extracting both Gridgen and its license managers from a CD and is performed
by new users who are using Gridgen for the first time or by existing Gridgen users when a new,
major Gridgen version is released.
?A Maintenance Release Installation involves replacing your current Gridgen executable program files with
the latest Gridgen executable files. You obtain the latest Gridgen executable either by downloading them
from Pointwise’s ftp site or from a CD.
A typical Gridgen installation will result in the following layout of data (approximately 200 MBytes) in the
gridgen_home_path directory:
?doc/ - This directory contains the Gridgen User Manual, Glyph Reference Manual, Tutorial Workbook,
and Gridgen Release Notes and Installation Instructions in PDF and HTML formats in the PDF/ and
Help/ subdirectories respectively. PDF files may be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
HTML files may be viewed by pressing Help within Gridgen.
?examples/ - This directory contains Gridgen (.gg), database, and Glyph script (.glf)…