Setting Up Your Environment

To enter the Prism programming environment, you must be logged in to a terminal or workstation running OpenWindows or the Common Desktop Environment (CDE).

DISPLAY Variable

Make sure that your DISPLAY environment variable is set for the terminal or workstation from which you are running OpenWindows or CDE. For example, if your workstation is named valhalla, you can issue this command (if you are running the C shell):

% setenv DISPLAY valhalla:0

PATH Variable

Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 requires that two directories be set in your PATH variable. The default locations of the two directories are:

/opt/SUNWhpc/bin
/opt/SUNWlsf/bin

PRISM_BROWSER_SCRIPT Variable

Prism uses the default HTML browser on your system to display Prism online help. If launching a browser at a prompt in your local environment calls up a script rather than invoking the browser directly, you must set the environment variable PRISM_BROWSER_SCRIPT to yes before starting Prism:

% setenv PRISM_BROWSER_SCRIPT yes

If you do not set this variable in this situation, once the Prism help system responds the browser may be brought up but may halt without displaying any help entries.

For information about the configuration of Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 at your location, see your Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 system administrator.