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- If possible read text files with a proportional font such as Courier.
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- CD-ROM DRIVE
- The default is to read a ARCVIEW project from the CD-ROM drive.
- On a Windows machine it is assumed that the CD-ROM drive
- is labeled as the f: or d:drive.
- With a UNIX machine it is assumed that the CD-ROM drive
- is refered to as /cdrom
- With a Macintosh platform the CD-ROM will be labeled "of97470e"
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- These three platforms should be able to work directly from
- the CD-ROM if various "start-up" files are correctly set.
- Refer to the other text files within platform folders for
- more information.
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- If one desires to have ArcView data reside on a hard drive rather
- than on the CD-ROM, files must be copied to a PC drive -- such as c:
-
- To view and manipulate these data sets on a PC, it is
- necessary to create a new directory, to be named "views"
- on local hard drive c:\. Copy entire contents of directory
- "fsu\views" from cd-rom to "views" on local hard drive c:\
-
- The arcview project file rus_geo.apr makes use
- of the variable AVDATA to contstruct an appropriate path
- to the data directory. Modify the value set for the
- AVDATA variable as needed. On a UNIX platform modify the
- ".cshrc" file bu setting like SETENV AVDATA /fsu/views.
- On a Windows platform modify the "autoexec.bat" file like
- this: SET AVDATA C:\fsu/views. On a Macintosh platform modify
- the "startup" file in the Preferences folder of the System folder.
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- To access the plot files, copy contents of directory "plots"
- to local hard drive. To access Arc/Info export files, copy
- contents of directory "export" to local hard drive or unix
- directory system.
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