MIT SDEP Help Page
We have help on a few topics. If you have other questions, want to suggest
more topics for our help page, or just want to comment
on our pages contact us at webmasters@sysdyn.mit.edu.
Adobe Acrobat Documents
Many of the documents that you can download from our site are in Portable
Document Format (PDF) which is viewable with the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
More complete instructions are available from the Adobe
Web Site, but here are the basics. To view the documents you will have
to do three things:
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Download
the free Reader You will have to download the Adobe Acrobat
Reader from the Adobe site. It is available for Windows, DOS, Macintosh,
SunSPARC, HP, SGI, and AIX machines.
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Configure the Reader as a "helper application" for your web browser. You
should set up your web browser so that it recognizes Acrobat documents
when you download them. Thus your web browser will know where to find your
reader when you want to view pdf documents on the web.
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Download the document. Having set up your browser and reader, all
you have to do is download the PDF document you want to read from our site.
If, after following these instructions, you are still having trouble, you
can contact us at webmasters@sysdyn.mit.edu
Email Enclosures
The way to enclose a file into a mail message may differ depending on your
computer and software you are using. Here are some instructions:
If you are using Eudora mailer
Regardless of whether you are using Eudora or Eudora Pro for either a PC
or a Macintosh, you can use Attach Document... option in the Message
menu. After that, you have to select the file with the model you are submitting,
and then send the mail. You can include your additional information in
your mail message before you send it.
In your Settings... dialog box (invoked from Special menu),
in the Attachments setting pane, you can select one of several encoding
schemes (uuencoding, MIME, binhex, or others). It is not important which
encoding scheme you are using. However, if you are using a Macintosh, we
recommend you check Always include Macintosh information checkbox
before sending the mail with the attached file.
If you are using TechMail mailer for the Macintosh
In this case, you can use Enclose Binhex... option from Message
menu. After selecting the file with the model you are submitting, you can
submit your model, with the additional information in the body of the mail
message.
If you are using TechMail mailer for PC
Unfortunately, TechMail for PCs doesn't have a way to enclose attachments
into mail messages. You will have to use another program to encode your
message in either MIME or uuencode format. We will soon provide a utility
program for encoding on our server.
Once you have encoded the file you want to submit, you can send the
encoded file from TechMail by choosing Insert File... from the Message
menu. You should insert your additional information at the very beginning
of your message, before the encoded file.
If you are using Netscape Mail
If you are using Netscape Mail, you can attach files by selecting Attach
button (in some versions of Netscape, this button has a paperclip drawn
on its face) and selecting the file. Please make sure that you attach a
file, and not a URL, and that you send the file As is (or as Source,
in some versions of Netscape). After you write your additional comments
in the body of the mail message, you can submit the message to us.
If you have a dial-up account on a UNIX system, and are using a terminal-style
mailer
In this case, your options will vary from situation to situation. Please
contact your system administrator for details. In general, you will have
first to upload the model to your account, and then send it using a UNIX
mailer, such as Pine or Elm. Your system administrator or help desk will
be able to provide you with the necessary information.
If you are using an Intenet provider's services, and are not using one
of the above mailers
Please ask your Internet provider's technical support for details about
sending enclosures in email. As soon as we manage to get some trial accounts
with various Internet providers, we shall put the provider-specific instructions
on this page.
If you are not using any of the above
Please use your software manuals and technical support. Should that fail,
feel free to send an email to rm-help@sysdyn.mit.edu
, and we shall attemp to help you to the best of our abilities.
BinHex and .SEA Documents
In order to provide access to our files for the largest possible range
of internet users, we have made all compressed archives for the Macintosh
available as binhex files. These are text files which can be decoded into
binary files once they have been loaded on your machine. After a BinHex
file has been decoded, you will have either the document file that you
requested, or, a .sea file which contains the files that you requested.
".sea" files are self extracting archives. This means that several files
have been compressed together into this archive for convenience. To decompress
a ".sea" file, simply double click on it and it will do the rest.
If you have any problems, please email us at webmasters@sysdyn.mit.edu
PC Self Extracting Archives
Some of the files in Road Maps are available as self extracting archives
for the PC. These archives end with the extension ".exe". The convenience
of this is that with the download of a single file, the user can receive
an entire chapter of Road Maps papers, models, or other files. To extract
the contents of the file, simply run it under DOS or double click on it
to run it under windows.
If you have any problems, please email us at webmasters@sysdyn.mit.edu
Saving PDF Files Using Netscape
If you are using the Netscape browser which includes the Acrobat viewer,
you should be aware of a potential problem with saving Acrobat files. To
save an Acrobat file that you have been viewing under Netscape, choose
"Save As" from the file menu. The dialog box which appears will give two
options for formats to save the document in. These are "Text," and "Source."
Always choose "Source" for Acrobat (pdf) files. The "Text" option will
leave the file in a format which the Acrobat reader will not properly recognize.
If you have any problems, please email us at webmasters@sysdyn.mit.edu
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