Who should read this manual

Introduction
This document describes how to adapt EDA to specific needs in your computing environment. Please read this introduction carefully, as the information below may or may not be important for you, depending upon your specific needs.

You do not have to read this document in order to start to work with EDA; the information provided here can wait until the need arises.

Users already familiar with previous versions of this manual, should read the notes on changes, before reading the rest of the manual.

Please note, that specific EDA versions may have additional information, namely there is a PC section

Who should read this manual?
Users who would like to adapt their EDA environment. This includes: changing default values, define default line-macros (e.g. on systems where line macros are assigned to keys), handle several printers and the like. In this case only a minor part of this manuel will be of interest to you.

System or group administrators (e.g. teachers) who want to take advantage of facilities like profiles shared by groups (sharing common definitions and data libaries) or need to set up EDA in a specific way, e.g. in a PC environment you might want to force the users to store their own data sets on floppy disks, while using the program and the shared data libraries from a hard disk.

Please bear in mind that a number of facilities offered here are useful on multi-user systems, others more on single-user systems. Therefore the facilities range from setting up a PC environment for a single user, setting up a PC environment where more than one user share the same PC or multi-user environments on a large main-frame where dozens of users work with the software.

If you have received a self-installing version, e.g. a PC version, the information provided here will be interesting only later, when you need to set up EDA for a specific user environment; EDA is supplied with a PC specific environment.