At CERN, the FATMEN catalogues are stored on the node FATCAT. This is currently an RS6000 which is only used for FATMEN catalogue management. The recommended way of accessing a FATMEN catalogue at CERN is the following:
An example of how this may be done is shown below.
NFS mounting the /fatmen file system on a Unix platform
mount fatcat:/fatmen /fatmen
NFS mounting the /fatmen file system on a VMS platform
$NFSMOUNT fatcat:"/fatmen" fatmen
Defining the environmental variables on a Unix system
#/bin/ksh for i in /fatmen/fm* do typeset -u fatgrp fatpath=$i fatgrp=`basename $i` echo Setting $fatgrp to $fatpath ... eval $fatgrp=$fatpath;export $fatgrp done
Defining the environmental variables on a VAX/VMS system
$ loop: $ fatman = f$search("FATMEN:[000000]FM*.DIR") $ if fatman .eqs. "" then exit $ fatman = f$parse(fatman,,,"NAME") $ fatdir = "FATMEN:[''fatman']" $ write sys$output "Setting ''fatman' to ''fatdir'..." $ 'fatman' :== 'fatdir' $ goto loop