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<h2><b>spectro/spyd2en</b></h2>
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A special purpose tool that enables the Spyder 2
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<small><span style="font-family: monospace;">spyd2en [-v] [<span
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style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span></span>]<br
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<span style="font-family: monospace;"> -v level
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Verbose<br>
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-S d
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Specify the install scope u = user (def.), l = local system]<br>
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creates spyd2PLD.bin from vendor install files.<br
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</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><span
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style="font-family: monospace;"></span></small><br>
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<h3>Flags and Parameters</h3>
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The <span style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span> argument is
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optional, and and can be used to specify the MSWindows setup.exe file
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from the installation CD (or possibly downloaded from the manufacturers
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if spyd2en is unable to locate this file automatically on the CD.<br>
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The <b>-v</b> parameter enables verbosity. This may be of use in
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figuring out what went wrong if it doesn't work.<br>
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The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-S</span> option allows
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installing the PLD pattern file in a local system location, rather than
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the default user accessible location. You may need to run this as
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superuser using the "sudo" command on Linux systems.<span
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style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span
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style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><br>
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<h3>Usage Details and Discussion</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>The Spyder 2 instrument cannot
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function without the presence of the instrument vendors PLD firmware
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pattern for the device. This firmware is not provided with
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Argyll, since it has not been made available under a compatible license.<br>
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The purchaser of a Spyder 2 instrument
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should have received a copy of this firmware along with their
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instrument from the original vendor, and <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">spyd2en</span> enables their instrument, by
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locating the firmware in the users copy of the
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instrument install files.<br>
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On Microsoft Windows or Apple OS X platforms, <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">spyd2en</span> will look to
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the vendors drivers have been installed on the users machine, and
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locate the firmware pattern from there. If the vendors drivers have
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not been installed, or the user does not wish to install them, or no
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vendors drivers are available for the users platform (i.e. Linux), then
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">spyd2en</span> will also attempt to
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locate the Spyder 2 installation CDROM, and make use of the firmware
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pattern from there. In this case, the CDROM should be placed in a CD
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running spyd2en. If your Linux system is not running
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automount, or your automount is setup to mount CDROM's somewhere other
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than <span style="font-style: italic;">/media</span>,<span
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style="font-style: italic;"> /mnt/cdrom</span>, <span
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style="font-style: italic;">/media/cdrom</span> or <span
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style="font-style: italic;">/cdrom</span>, then you will have to mount
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the CDROM manually, and give spyd2en the path to the CDROM
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file as the argument <span style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span>.<span
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style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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NOTE </span>that under OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) you may need to run
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spyd2en as root to be able to mount the CDROM's ISO partition. The
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simplest way of doing this is to use the "sudo" commands. e.g. "sudo
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spyd2en", which will then ask you to enter the root password.<br>
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If the instrument firmware pattern is successfully located, then
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spyd2en will create a <span style="font-weight: bold;">spyd2PLD.bin</span>
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file in a subdirectory of the users home directory, or if the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">-S l</span> option is used, will store it
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in a system wide location. (the <a
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href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html">XDG
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specifications</a> are used as a basis for storing the
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file). Programs that access instruments such as <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">spotread</span>, <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">dispcal</span> and <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">dispread</span>, can then locate and load
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span> that the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">spyd2PLD.bin</span> file created by spyd2en
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and copyrighted firmware provided by the instrument vendor, and while
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the vendor has provided
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the firmware to the end
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user to facilitate the use of their purchased instrument, the
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instrument vendor (typically) does not permit the user to distribute
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make copies for purposes other than making use of their own instrument.<br>