RS1 Hints and Tips

Terms and Conventions | Setup | Useful Commands | Editor

On this page you can find a few useful tips for the RS1 software. This should be used as a quick reference when carrying out the exercises.

Terms and Conventions

The following conventions will be used throughout this exercise:

CONTROL FACTOR:: A programmable input variable to the system which affects the output.
RESPONSE:: The measurable outputs of the system.
EXPER.DEFINE.FACTORS.ADD:: Select EXPER from the top level menu, followed by the DEFINE option, then the FACTORS option and finally the ADD option.

RS1 Setup

The following instructions are already available on the web:

Printer Set-up

Note that you should always exit RS1 correctly by using logout (see Useful Commands), "Killing" the application will result in corruption of the database files.

Useful Commands

To create an experiment:

	# make experiment

To load a previously created experiment:

	# edit

To exit and experiment:

	> exit

To exit RS1:

	# logout

These commands can be used at any prompt:

? Gives a help message for the current menu.
?number Gives a help message for the menu choice indicated by the number.
refresh Re-draws the RS/Discover window.
moveto Moves to a particular cell in a table. Use this when RS/Discover says there are more columns and/or rows to display.
!<command> Execute any RS/1 command by preceding the command with a !.
!chain" " Execute any operating system command by placing that command in quotations marks after !chain.
exit Exit from 1st and 2nd levels.
up Exit from 2nd and 3rd levels.
Ctrl-C Exit from 4th levels.
\exit Exit from tables.

Editor

You can use any editor you like (see setup) but, given that there is very little to edit, I would recommend the use of pico - a very lightweight, console-based editor. The important commands are as follows:

Ctrl-o: Save
Ctrl-x: Exit

N.B: When the editor is opened, it appears in the console window where RS1 was called from, this means that you should not run RS1 in the background.