How to run it

A properly installed RLaB  can be started on your terminal by entering

$ rlab

where typewriter-style dark text is meant to represent the text you would see sitting in front of a display terminal. The first character on the input line is always the prompt, in this case a Bourne-shell prompt. The text following is what the user enters. Text echoed by a program is not preceded by any prompt.

RLaB  will start with a message similar to:

Welcome to RLaB. New users type `help INTRO'
RLaB version 1.0 Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94 Ian Searle
RLaB comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `help WARRANTY'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type `help CONDITIONS' for details
>

The > symbol on the last line next to the cursor is the RLaB  command prompt. At this point, users should take the advice offered and be usefully distracted from this primer by actually reading the information available from help INTRO - do not worry if you cannot follow it yet. After you have read each screenful, press SPACE (i.e. the space bar) to see further screens of information.

At this point it is only fair to tell you how to stop it. To stop a RLaB session you can type quit at the RLaB prompt. On Unix systems an EOF or ^d (control-d) will also stop RLaB .