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