Starting BOB

If you have installed the ADF package correctly, the Basis Output Browser BOB is located in $ADFBIN.

If $ADFBIN is included in your PATH environment variable, you can start the BOB program with the following command:

bob [filename]

The filename is optional. BOB only handles text files, but is mainly useful for the output file generated by ADF or BAND. If it is generated with ADFinput the ADF output file will have a .out extension. If it is generated with BANDinput the BAND output file will have a .out extension.

There is a second possibility to start BOB if one of the GUI modules has already been started. All ADF-GUI modules have the SCM menu on the left-hand side, on most systems represented by a small SCM logo. Using this SCM menu BOB can be started by selecting the 'Output' command.