BU Modeling System Command Interface (MSTTY)
Description
Mstty is an interactive, command driven front end which provides a shell-like
interface to the Boston University Modeling System (MS).
Many of the commands in mstty have a one-to-one correspondence with the
C callable routines in the MS library (See the MS Reference Manual
available from Information Technology). In addition to these modeling
commands, mstty provides facilities for variables, arithmetic expressions,
command history, file execution, subtasking and macros.
Highlights: Since both mstty and ms were written here at
BU by members of the Scientific
Computing and Visualization Group, there is in-house expertise and
local support. Neither mstty or ms are generally available outside of BU.
Availability and Setup
The Boston University Modeling System (MS) and all the applications
which utilize it, including mstty, are available on most Boston
University systems but are not generally available outside of the
Boston University community.
Using MSTTY
To run mstty, simply type:
cgl% mstty
Once you are within mstty, you can type interactive commands.
See the mstty example file to get a sense
of a normal mstty session.
Additional Help/Documentation
All of our hardcopy documentation is available in the Computer Graphics Lab
(Room 203, 111 Cummington Street, lab hours).
This includes the complete MS Reference Manual, Version 3.1 and
MS Applications, which describes various applications written locally
which use MS (including mstty). Appendix
A of the MS Reference manual, A Quick Reference
Guide is available online.
Online, see the mstty man page, an
mstty example session, the list of
mstty commands and
old news updates on ms and mstty. The
MS v3.1 Announcement gives a brief summary
of MS and various applications which utilize MS, including mstty.
Many applications utilizing the MS libraries have their own man pages.
These include
mstty itself,
ccms (the MS compiler),
motel (a Motif interface to MS),
msvu (for interactive display of an MS geometry file),
surfvu (display a surface from a 2D regular grid),
contour (create isolevel contour curves for MS),
isovu (create and display iso-surfaces from a 3D regular grid),
volvu (display a slice of a 3D regular grid) and
molec (build spherical models using MS)
Document Name: mstty
Author/Maintainer: Aaron D. Fuegi (aarondf@bu.edu)
Executable: /usr/local/bin/mstty
Keywords: mstty, ms, modeling, command, system, interface, animation
Machines List: CGL Cluster, Bears Cluster, ursa-major, conx, lobster, squid, ACS Cluster
Related Man Pages: mstty, ms, ccms, motel, msvu, surfvu, contour, isovu, volvu, molec
Related SCV Help Pages: ms
Created June 23, 1995; Last Revised July 7, 1995; Last Modified
URL of this document: http://scv.bu.edu/SCV/Graphics/mstty.html
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