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Starting XGinseng

Xginseng must be run under X Windows. After starting X, start up a Lisp process and load and start a SNePS session. Once SNePS is started, at any time you may execute the SNePSUL function (xginseng). This function will load all the necessary files and create four XGinseng windows. As each new window is created, its ``ghost'' will appear under the cursor. Place it where you like on the display screen by clicking on the left mouse button.

Once XGinseng is started, the SNePS session is suspended. Thus only one process -- either SNePS or XGinseng -- may be running at one time. Merely moving the cursor from one of the XGinseng windows to the SNePS window will not change it to the active window as you would normally expect from an X windows application. Rather, control must be explicitly relinquished by XGinseng via the function (to suspend the Garnet process and return control back to SNePS). See Section 6.4.1 for directions on how to use the function.


John Francis Santore
Fri May 14 11:18:57 EDT 1999