If nothing happens when you start Shake, check to see first if the software
is actually installed:
Is Shake installed?
SGI
/usr/nreal/shake-v2.20/bin/shake
NT, by default, under the System Drive:
\Program Files\Shake-v2.20\shake.exe
The NT version also inserts shake under the Start menu.
Is Shake in my path?
If the software is present, make sure Shake is in your active path:
SGI, or NT with the tcsh emulator:
- In your .tcshrc file (or something similar) in your $HOME
directory, make sure you have a line that says:
set path = (. /usr/nreal/shake-v2.20/bin
$path)
- Save your file, then source the file:
source .tcshrc
Now type shake
again to see if it works.
NT
Is Shake keyed, or Where is the number of the SysAdmin guy?
At this point if it doesn't work, its probably a key problem, in which
case you will see an error message telling you there is a problem with
the flexLM licensing. In this case, contact your sysadmin folks, or call
us. If you are running NT, try launching Shake with the command prompt
window under Start-Nothing Real-Shake2-Shake shell. It will indicate if
there is a licensing problem.
Common license problems are extra control characters in the file, or
the license file was not saved as pure ASCII text (i.e., on NT, saved
as a Word 6.0 doc). Another common problem is that there is a .txt extension
on the license. All of these are Verboten.
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