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Yorick installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Dec 27 13:13:57 2002
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:13:42 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed yorick on Athena for Sun and Linux machines. yorick is
an interpreted programming language, designed for postprocessing or
steering large scientific simulation codes. Smaller scientific
simulations or calculations, such as the flow past an airfoil or the
motion of a drumhead, can be written as standalone yorick
programs. The yorick language is designed to be typed interactively at
a keyboard, as well as stored in files for later use. Yorick includes
an interactive graphics package.
yorick is somewhat similar to the cT programming language, also on
Athena, although the latter is now longer being developed. To run
yorick:
add yorick
yorick
Which will get you to an internal prompt. The README linked to from
/mit/yorick_v1.5.12/README explains how to run demos (near the end).
Trying these will give a good sense of what yorick can do.
There is extensive documentation, starting from
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/software/yorick_v1.5.12/yorick/1.5/doc/manual/yorick.html, and in
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/software/yorick_v1.5.12/yorick/1.5/doc/yorick.pdf
as well as other documentation in the doc directory in the URLs above.
An emacs .el file exists allowing yorick to be run from within Emacs-
if you want to use this, first add the yorick version locker
(yorick_v1.5.12), and load file /mit/yorick_v1.5.12/yorick.el into
Emacs. The file itself is documented with comments explaining the
functionality available.
Alex
