TERRAIN Tutorial : Where to Start?

First create a directory call MM5V3 (your new working directory), and cd to this new directory:

   mkdir MM5V3
   cd MM5V3

For the TERRAIN program and all other programs in this tutorial you will be working inside this directory.

Download the TERRAIN program tar file from NCAR's ftp site.
Once you have it on your machine, type the following to unzip and untar it:

   gunzip TERRAIN.TAR.gz
   tar -xvf TERRAIN.TAR

You should now see a program directory TERRAIN/ created in your working directory.
cd to this directory:

   cd TERRAIN

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

   ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users 12246 Mar  3 2003 CHANGES
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users  8192 Mar  5 2003 Data
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users  8192 Mar  5 2003 Diff
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  5816 Jan  5 2003 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users 16078 Dec  4 2002 README
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users  8192 Mar  5 2003 Templates
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  2812 Jul 31 1999 con.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  3062 Jul 31 1999 confi.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  3322 Jul 31 1999 confiP.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  3257 Jul 31 1999 confiT.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users 36832 Jul 31 1999 ezids
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  4432 Jul 31 1999 lsco.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  3980 Jul 31 1999 luco.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  4432 Jul 31 1999 lvc1.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  5336 Jul 31 1999 lvc2.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  4432 Jul 31 1999 lvco.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  1941 Jan 24 2000 map.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  2427 Jul 31 1999 maparea.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  2428 Jan 24 2000 mapfi.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users 67116 Jul 31 1999 psids
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users 39396 Jul 31 1999 raobsta.ieee
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users  8192 Mar  5 2003 src

Read the README file in the directory.