To setup your account for simulating SPI
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last update of this file: December 24, 2003

Follow the instructions step by step!

create on your home directory a directory for the parameter files:

cd
mkdir pfiles
mkdir data_rep

copy the parameter files to your pfiles directory (e.g. from my pfiles):

cp /Home/lhea2/beckmann/pfiles/*.par ~/pfiles

start the script to initialise your account:
source /Home/lhea2/beckmann/init_isdc.osa2.0
or include this into your start-up shell.

As the simulation does not produce raw event files, you start directly on your obs_id branch (which I call here as an example og_simu) :

cd data_rep
mkdir obs
cd obs
mkdir obs_simu
cd obs_simu
mkdir spi

So you start your simulation under your 
~/data_rep/obs/obs_simu 
directory (when using this structure you will not get confused when also analysing real data). Output will be written into the spi/ subdirectory.
 
Now you can start your SPI simulation. Follow the instructions under 
http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/beckmann/spi/pages/simu_um.html
or do whatever you like!