Getting Started

Note: To get the most out of this guide, it will be helpful to have a copy of the actual manual with you. That way if I refer to it (as I will, since it is my guide for writing this one), or you want more detail about something, you can look at the manual and not have to e-mail me or the guys at Clemson. (There are links in here to the Clemson guys' homepages anyway. Since they wrote the program, they'd probably like to hear your comments about it more than me.)

Well, let's get you started. The first thing you need to do is to obtain a copy of the program. You can find the Clemson model program here (CLEMSON.ZIP). Note that this is a ZIP file and you will also need the PKUNZIP program to decompress it.

Your best bet is to copy both the Clemson Model and the PKUNZIP file to a fresh disk and take this disk to a PC. Enter DOS, switch to drive a:, and type

You're now ready to go.

Running the program

If you look at the first nine pages of the manual, you will notice it deals with installation procedures. Chances are, you probably don't need to worry about any of this. Unless you're dealing with an older computer, the program should run just fine off the disk you just made. If you need to reconfigure your system, or want to install the program on the hard drive, then check the manual. If just want to do some quick modeling, then skip to page 9.

Now, if you're ready to go, you better have your disk in the drive, DOS started, and hit

Happy modeling!