Working with Flat

Setting up your environment to work with Flat is similar as for working with the wheelchair. In the file $VULCAN/setup.scm you have to define the following variables:

(define *use-wheelchair-client* #f)  ;;; #f = use flat
(define *switchboard-flat*  "shadow.csres.utexas.edu:17000") 
(define *flat-host*   "shadow.csres.utexas.edu:1095")
(define *display-host* "shadow.csres.utexas.edu")
(define *display-port* 1099)

As when working with the wheelchair (see Section 1.5), you have to specify where the switchboard is running (*switchboard-flat*), where to contact the flat display (*display-host*, *display-port*), and where Flat is running (*flat-host*).

In your file .bashrc include the following line:

alias startservers-flat ='cd $VULCAN/etc; ./server-setup-flat localhost port-number'

The value of port-number should be the same you specify in the variable *switchboard-flat* above.