1. Installation Instructions - Unix & Linux (Download)

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doc/ - This directory contains the Gridgen User Manual, Glyph Reference Manual, … form 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 (Download)
First time installation of Gridgen is fairly simple. It mainly involves downloading a complete version of
Gridgen from the Pointwise website then extracting and running files from the downloaded archive. This
type of installation is generally performed by users who are evaluating Gridgen.
A typical Gridgen installation will result in the following layout of data (approximately 150 MBytes) in the
gridgen_home_path folder:
?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) files for tutorials
and other examples of Gridgen usage.
?hw/ - There is not a directory actually named hw. It is included here in a generic sense to represent the
specific hardware brand(s) of computer on which you will install Gridgen and its license managers.
Instead of hw you…