NAME

     IKP.new  - shell to  start  up  the  graphical  iconic  flow
     builder

SYNOPSIS

     IKP.new

DESCRIPTION

     IKP.new properly starts the graphical iconic  flow  builder,
     ikp,  with  all  the appropriate builtin menu files and some
     standard pre-built netfiles.  The purpose of  the  graphical
     interface  is  to assist the user in building up complicated
     processing flows, to test these flows interactively on small
     data  sets,  and  to  actually  run these flows on full data
     sets.  The recommended procedure for the interactive mode is
     to  build  and  test  but not to do production runs.  Once a
     flow has been built and tested it can be saved  in  a  named
     file  (called  a  netfile) and executed using ikp in a batch
     mode using the UNIX nohup facility to run jobs after logging
     off  and  also  using  the at facility which allows users to
     submit jobs at specific times.

BUGS

     They're crawling out of the woodwork

SEE ALSO

     ikp

AUTHOR

     Paul Gutowski (shell script only), Joe Wade is also  a  good
     contact on ikp

COPYRIGHT

     copyright 2001, Amoco Production Company
               All Rights Reserved
          an affiliate of BP America Inc.