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Mseti -- Manages a set of seti@home sessions.
Version 0.7 -- Mseti is still under development.  
Author chrismac@tpg.com.au
OS     Linux and Unix.  I think it would be easy to modify
       it run under windoze, feel free to give it a go.

-- What is it ? --
mseti is a tcl/tk program to handle multiple seti@home 
sessions. Each seti@home session will run in turn until
all the work units are done.

-- Why was it written ? --
If you run seti@home from home, and you use a modem only every
few days, then it is difficult to run multiple seti@home 
sessions, without resorting to cron jobs or some sort of 
tricky setup.  mseti will manage a set of seti@home sessions
for you.

-- TBD --
Mext version (when I get the time and energy) will 
complete the Preferences and Help menus, which  
and do nothing (well not much anyway). Flags
passed to setiathome executable need be set up
to allow proxy server name to be entered.

-- Setup --
download the mseti.tar.gz
do the usual stuff i.e ...
$ gunzip  mseti.tar.gz
$ tar xvf mseti.tar

in the "mseti" directory is this README and mseti0.7
(by the way, you cannot read this unless you have done
the above steps.. just a thought.. )

mseti looks in the child directories of the current directory
for directories with the executable "setiathome" or a symbolic
link to "setiathome".  

Work out the number of setiathome sessions you want to setup, 
and create a directory for each one (all under the one parent 
directory), then in each of these directories start the setiathome
and download the first work unit, when they have been setup 
then run mseti0.7 (in the parent directory)

The instructions are simple, press the "start" button to begin
and press the "download" button to send the results to seti@home
when you have your internet connection going.

--------------------------
-- Using a proxy server --
--------------------------
If you have to use a proxy server, then edit mseti0.7 
at line 735 .. 736 , change the lines 

---- from -----
set seti_pid [exec $setidata($id,dirname)/setiathome \ 
    -stop_after_xfer > /dev/null &]
---- to -----
set seti_pid [exec $setidata($id,dirname)/setiathome \ 
    -proxy (insert your proxy) -stop_after_xfer > /dev/null &]

Enjoy
Chris McGowan