How to become a Pandore user

I. Unix / Linux / Mac OS X / CYGWIN

This tutorial considers that Pandore is installed in the folder: /usr/share/pandore

a- Simple solution

Launch the following script at the beginning of each session:

/usr/share/pandore/pandore

b- Advanced solution for Unix / Linux / CYGWIN

Set the following environment variables in file .profile or bash_profile:

PANDOREHOME=/usr/share/pandore
PATH=$PANDOREHOME/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PANDOREHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PANDOREHOME PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

c-Advanced solution for Mac OS X

Set the following environment variables in file .profile or .bash_profile:

PANDOREHOME=/usr/share/pandore
PATH=$PANDOREHOME/bin:$PATH
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PANDOREHOME/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PANDOREHOME PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

d- Check setting

To check the settings, try the following sequence of commands:

 $ pversion
 $ pbmp2pan $PANDOREHOME/examples/tangram.bmp a.pan
 $ pstatus
 $ pvisu a.pan

II. Windows 95,98, XP, 2000, NT, ...

Double click on the pandore.bat script. This script opens a new MSDOS windows in which the commands will be typed.

To check the settings, try the following sequence of commands:

 C:> pversion
 C:> pbmp2pan %PANDOREHOME%\examples\tangram.bmp a.pan 
 C:> pstatus
 C:> pvisu a.pan