



1.1 Installation for SGI Unix systems.

1 Uncompress 

  Move to the directory in which the blender installation
  directory should be created. Now type: 

  gunzip blender.xxx.tar.gz
  tar xvf blender.xxx.tar

  Now a directory ./blender.xxx/ has been created. 
  It contains the executable and the primary files to start with. 

2 Add an environment variable: 

  To be able to find it's data files, Blender needs a 
  environment variable that will point to it's installation directory. 

  setenv BLENDERDIR name_of_directory (for csh shell)
  export BLENDERDIR=name_of_directory (for sh shell) 

  The name_of_directory has to be the FULL path, starting with '/'.

  You may want to enter this into your .cshrc or .login (or .profile) file, so it is
  automatically set when you login. The executable itself can be copied to any
  location. 

3 Copy default files 

  Copy the files .B.blend and .B.fs to your home directory. Files that start with ".B"
  are Blender setup files. Copy these files only the first time. Later on you'll learn to
  alter these for a more personal Blender configuration. 
  
