Instructor: Minhe Ji
Date: 9/11/1997
Subject: Attention Intro-GISers:
Here is a list of things you need to KNOW or DO before the second lab
Setting up A Training Workspace (ugis) in Your Home Directory
log into your UNIX account
at the UNIX prompt, copy the training data directory, ugis, to your home directory. A system variable, AIDATA, has been set to contain the path to ugis. All you need to do is to type: cp -r $AIDATA/ugis ugis while sitting at your home directory.
type arc to log into Arc/Info, and change workspace to ugis/data
Arc/Info Data Organization
Workspace directory - for coverage and INFO directories, the log file, and other files.
Coverage directory - for the files belonging to that coverage only.
INFO directory - for INFO attribute tables only.
Workspace Level Operations
Try out all these commands (underlined letters stand for the short form): copyworkspace, createworkspace, deleteworkspace, listworkspace,
renameworkspace, (change)workspace
Basic Usage for Arc/Info Commands
command line with arguments
a command without arguments will display the command usage
default (up case option), place holder (#), required (<>), and optional ({}) arguments
Basic Management Commands
for coverages: lc (or dir cover), describe (or dc), copy, rename, kill
for INFO tables (at the ARC prompt): dir info, list, items, copyinfo
others: &station 9999, &popup (for viewing a text file), commands, help (on-line help)
Extra in your spare time
finish the exercise in Lesson 1 of your textbook (starting from Page 1-11)