NOAA / NESDIS / National Geophysical Data Center / WDC for SEG, Boulder, Colorado USA

Getting Started

This page contains excerpts from the book "Paleomagnetic Principles and Practice" by Lisa Tauxe, published by Kluwer.

After each chapter in the book,  there are  a number of practical examples for paleomagnetic problems using real data. The programs referred to in the examples are part of a package of programs called pmag1.0. These are available by anonymous  ftp  or on a disk in the back of the book.

The programs are designed to operate in a UNIX (or LINUX) environment so we will start with a brief discussion of how to get along in UNIX in general. There are many excellent books on UNIX and the reader is referred to them for a detailed discussion. What follows are the barest essentials for being able to use the programs in this book.
 

• Survival Unix
• The UNIX file structure
• Redirecting Input and Output
• Wildcards
• UNIX commands
• Text Editors