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From a Unix terminal, open a connection to noric-new and login.

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ssh noric-new

Now, switch to the bash shell.

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bash

You need to setup the project environment to access the common software
distribution.

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source /nfs/slac/g/lcd/mc/prj/bin/prj.sh

Now, you should be able to run slic from $PRJ_BIN.

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slic [arguments]

To see available command line options, invoke the help command.

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slic --help

There are a number of different ways to run SLIC, including purely
macro or command-line driven.

For instance, here is a command to load the SDJan03 test geometry
and start an interactive terminal.

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slic -g $PRJ_DIST/slic/current/examples/sdjan03/SDJan03.lcdd -z -n

Now, in order to have a work area for your SLIC usage, checkout the
package from CVS.

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export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd

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cvs co slic

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cd slic

Within this directory, you will be able to write LCIO files.

This is an example of visualizing a single muon event in the SDJan03 test
detector using GPS. From your slic directory, execute the following
commands.

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slic -g examples/sdjan03/SDJan03.lcdd -z -n

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Idle>/control/execute macros/vis_gl.mac

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Idle>/control/execute macros/gps.mac

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Idle>/run/beamOn

You could also dump a heprep.

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Idle>/control/execute macros/heprep2.mac

Or you may want to check for overlaps in the detector.

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Idle>/geometry/test/recursive_test

A purely macro-driven job can be executed from the slic directory like so.

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slic macros/sdjan03_dbg.mac

You can dump this event using an LCIO utility.

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dumpevent outfile.slcio 0 0

In general, a minimalist SLIC session will be started as follows.

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slic -g /path/to/geometry/file -z -n

The -z option tells SLIC to initialize the simulator at that
point and -n will start an interactive session.

Alternately, you may start in interactive mode and manually input
all required commands.

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slic -n
Idle>/lcdd/setURI examples/sdjan03/SDJan03.lcdd
Idle>/run/initialize

An input StdHep file can be specified with the -i option or
using the /stdhep/setFile command from the PreInit> prompt.
When you call /run/beamOn, the events from this file will
be used as input to the simulator.

If you need access to SLAC NFS, contact unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu.