LITTLE_R Tutorial : Where to Start?

First, go to your working directory (MM5V3) and download the LITTLE_R program tar file from NCAR's ftp site. Once you have it on your machine, type the following to unzip and untar it:

   gunzip LITTLE_R.TAR.gz
   tar -xvf LITTLE_R.TAR

After this, you should see a program directory LITTLE_R/ created in your working directory. cd to this directory:

   cd LITTLE_R

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

   ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users   4226 Dec 20 09:34 CHANGES*
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 Diff/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 Doc/
-rwxr-xr-- 1 mesouser users  10425 Dec  9 09:04 Makefile*
-rwxr-xr-- 1 mesouser users   3079 Dec 20 09:22 README*
-rwxr-xr-- 1 mesouser users    419 Jun  7  2000 configure.rules*
-rwxr-xr-- 1 mesouser users     92 Jun  7  2000 macros_little_r*
-rwxr-xr-- 1 mesouser users   2987 Dec 19  2001 namelist.input*
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 src/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 util/

 

Read the README file in the directory.