1 Before Installing VICAR

How to Get VICAR

VICAR is supplied on CD-ROM or tape (4mm DAT or 8mm Exabyte) by Emailing Danika Jensen or contacting her by 'phone: (818) 354-6269. If you have problems with, or questions about VICAR, reach us through our contact list.

VICAR will run directly from CD. Performance is dependent on speed of local CD reader. Worst case CD speed: in a test at MIPS using VICAR 17, with the slowest CD-ROM reader (1X), the most complex program, (SAGE) took almost a minute to load, but ran quickly thereafter. For faster performance copy VICAR onto hard disk drive from CD or tape.

If you want to run the USGS ISIS image processing package along with VICAR you must read: ISIS Coexistence.

Requirements and Supported Platforms for UNIX VICAR

• SunOS Version 4.1.3
• Sun Solaris Version 2.4. If you have 2.5, see Notes on using Solaris 2.5.
• SGI IRIX Version 5.3

Requirements for All UNIX Installations

• RAM (physical memory): 32 Mbytes or more
• Swap space: 64 Mb or more
• Free Disk Space to load VICAR onto hard drive (Mbytes)

  Solaris

  338

  Sun 4

  448

  IRIX

  368

• Motif Version: 1.2.1 or higher
• FEI requires Kerberos

OpenVMS DEC-Alpha Requirements

• Operating System: OpenVMS 6.1
• RAM (physical memory): 32 Mbytes or more
• Swap (Page) space: 64 Mb or more
• Free Disk Space (if you load VICAR onto a hard drive): 381Mbytes
• Motif Version: 1.2 or higher
• FEI requires Kereberos and TCP/IP from TGV's Multinet. You must have Multinet 4.3a or a later version. An equivalent TCP/IP package may be used, but some programs must be relinked.

We suggest that you Check OpenVMS System Requirements before installing on OpenVMS

User Requirements (quotas) for OpenVMS VICAR

• BYTLIM (buffered I/O byte count quota): 64,000 bytes or more.
• FILLM (open file quota): 100 or more.
• JTQUOTA (number of bytes in the job logical name table): 4096 or more.
• PGFLQUO (paging file quota): 50,000 pages or more.
• Default privileges: NETMBX and TMPMBX.
• PRCLM (subprocess quota): 8 or more.

These numbers are those used on the MIPS Alphas, and were arrived at by trial and error. Many VICAR programs will work with lower quotas. As a rule of thumb, the more complex the program the higher the user quotas must be set.

We suggest that you use the Command to Check OpenVMS User Requirements before installing.