The average new user should require about two weeks to complete this course. The user will be handling real SLD data and doing real SLD analysis tasks throughout this time. Just by the end of the first day, the user can expect to have examined, histogrammed and made event displays from real data. Upon completion of this workbook, the user will have handled all of the most significant tools in the SLD software workshop. The user will not be an expert with any of these tools, but will have a good idea of how the various tools interrelate and will be in a good position to consult detailed reference manuals as needed.
To use this workbook, the user is expected to have access to an X terminal capable of running World Wide Web and networked to a VMS computer that is running SLD software. The user is expected to display the workbook itself in one or more windows using World Wide Web and to have a VMS session in another window. This workbook should be consulted online, not through a hard copy. The examples will have to change with time and hard copies can not be kept up to date. Only the first few steps, describing how to use World Wide Web and VMS will be distributed as hard copies.
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