Invoking

A properly installed can be started by using the following: $ rlab RETURN where text highlighted like this is what you enter and RETURN means you have entered the rlab command by hitting the RETURN key. will start with a message similar to

Welcome to RLaB. New users type `help INTRO'
RLaB version 0.99b Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94 Ian Searle
RLaB comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `help WARRANTY'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type `help CONDITIONS' for details
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If that didn't work, then is not set up properly on your machine, and you should talk to your local System Administration ogre, and get them to set it up. If you are the System Administrator ogre, then look at the README.install file in the package. Setting up is not difficult, however it is beyond the scope of this manual. If that did work, now is probably a good time to work through the Primer, which should have come with this manual. The Primer introduces and is intended to be complementary to this manual. You can get a good feel for the capabilities from the Primer, and the hard details from the Reference Manual. So go to it! The Primer awaits. It doesn't really matter if you don't understand it all, since you can get more information from this manual, but this manual will be a lot easier if you have done the Primer. So give it a try!