The workstation is a HP-UX10 and the software control for the experiment is throught the SPEC package (for a complete documentation, you may try SPEC help - onsite link only). Users who are unfamiliar with basic UNIX commands should consult UNIX help for Users (on site only). This may also act as an on-line help if you do not remember UNIX commands during your experiments.

Basic UNIX commands

cd dir_name change to directory dir_name
mkdir dir_name create directory dir_name
cp file1 file2 copy file1 to file2
rm file remove file
emacs file calls the emacs editor to modify file
neidt file calls the nedit editor to modify file
lp -d a4bid27 printfile.ps prints printfile.ps to a4bid327

 

Basic SPEC commands

The two applications are corresponding to two windows on the beamline workstation, entitled by the name of the application:

mv motor position absolute move of motor to position
mvr motor delta_position relative of motor by delta_position
umv motor position like mv, but the position is written while moving
timescan time counts without changing motor positions for time, (default 1 s)
ascan motor ini_pos fin_pos n time linear scan of motor from ini_pos to fin_pos with n points, time s/point. motor will stay at fin_pos
dscan motor d_min d_pos n time like ascan, but scanning from x+d_min to x+d_pos , where x is the start position, to which motor returns also after scan

The displayed spectrum can be plotted on the laser printer with
 pplot.

A more complete list of commands can be found here .

A list of motors and settings can be found here .

Important: You can stop each scan be typing ^C. This should be done for example if you started scanning a motor to a unwanted position. dscan will return to the old position after ^C. An error message may occur telling you that the motor didn't reached its final position. In addition, a mismatch between the values of the motor position in SPEC and from the controller may occur. In this case, always answer the question to change the value with no , unless you are sure about what you are doing. In general, all motors have limit switches (hard limit) and/or soft limits controlled by the software, so that it should not be possible to destroy anything.