FTP Access to PowerDesign



Downloading the Files

PowerDesign is available to all organizations via this FTP page. All necessary files, including the Tcl/Tk Xwindows toolkit, are supplied here.

You may download the files by clicking below, or by connecting through FTP. In both cases you must download exactly two files: install, and pd.tar.Z (a 3.25MB compressed tar file).

(You may have to set your browser to save files rather than display them for this to work properly)

Or, you may connect to the ftp server directly and choose the two files.



Installing the Software

Place the two downloaded files in a new temporary directory in your home somewhere (it does not really matter where) then run the install program. You may then specify the name of the actual PowerDesign installation directory. For example, 

  csh> mkdir ~/temp
  csh> mv install ~/temp
  csh> mv pd.tar.Z ~/temp
  csh> cd ~/temp
  csh> chmod ugo+x install
  csh> install
The install program will prompt you for the final installation path where you would like PowerDesign to reside.



Running the Software

Start PowerDesign by typing the full install path followed by /Pd/power. For example, if you installed to ~/power then you would type this: 

  csh> ~/power/Pd/power
Remember, you can add the install directory followed by /Pd to your path, or create an alias instead.


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