Unpacking: Tarballs (.tar) are
usually compressed with bzip2
(.bz2). Unpack them inside a PAT runtime tree
(/usr/share/pat for Unix, /pat10 for DOS, or
add -r dir if elsewhere); files will be
placed in the subdirectory data/body
where body is mercury,
venus, earth, etc. Data is distributed
as plain text (when possible), along with a makefile (.mak) to compile it to
PAT's binary format (when appropriate).
Viewing:
Dataset:
pat -a dataset -D or
"data dataset; add dataset; draw" •
Skin:
"image skin; add bg skin; draw" •
Example:
# cd /usr/share/pat
# bzcat /wherever/dataset.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
# make -f dataset.mak
% pat -a dataset -d x11 -D
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