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Gensys tutorials

• Start the virtual machine.
• Start the Gensys file manager program "genfile", by clicking the -icon in the bottom panel.
• Double-click directory homepage/ in the left list widget, and click the cd-button.
• Double-click directory tutorial/ in the left list widget, and click the cd-button.
• Move the window to the lower right corner of your screen.
• Click the -icon again.
• In this "genfile"-window double-click directory analyse/ and the cd-button.
  (If this is your first time maybe directory "analyse" is missing in your gensys-folder?
  In that case, manually create directory "analyse" with command mkdir analyse first)
• In this "genfile"-window double-click directory analyse/ and the cd-button.
• In directory "analyse", create a workspace by writing e.g.:mkdir my_test_dir on the command line to the right of the cmd-button. Send the command to the system by pressing the cmd-button.
• Decend into the newly created directory by doule-clicking my_test_dir/ and the cd-button.
• Go back to the first window and double-click the tutorial-directory you want to work with.
• Press the CTRL-key and simultaneously with the mouse-wheel (middle mouse button) drag the tutorial-folder over to your workspace.
  
• Add write permissions for you to all files in the newly created tutorial-directory by writing:

  chmod -R u+w <tutorial-directory>

• Decend into this newly created tutorial-directory by double-clicking the name of the directory and then click the cd-button
• In the newly created tutorial-directory: Double-click file "README.html" and select "open -> run" with the right mouse button, and follow the instructions given here.