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Do You Really want to Read This Manual?

An earlier document introduced the collaboration to the SNOMAN code[1] (however the reader should be warned that all the detailed information about banks structures and so forth contained in that report is no longer accurate). The SNOMAN program will have the capability to generate, by Monte Carlo simulation, hit patterns in the SNO detector for various classes of signal and background events, to write these patterns to files (or tape), to read these patterns back, to read actual data from the SNO detector, to then fit these patterns however obtained and determine their most likely origin, to provide graphical display, and to output the resulting information. The purpose of this document is to tell the user how to obtain the SNOMAN code and the basic instructions for running it at their institution. The manual also contains an outline of the overall structure of SNOMAN, and a more detailed description of the different functional groups of routines within the code. More detailed information on each individual routine than is found in this report can be found within the comments in the routines themselves or is located in one of the /doc subdirectories (or does not exist). This document should contain all the information necessary to understand in general how the routine works and what physics it is applying, what its current capabilities are, and how to use it. A parallel document (The SNOMAN Programmer's Manual) gives the information necessary to actually modify the code.


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