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This page supports O-Plan releases by providing some advice on Frequently Asked Questions. Note that instructions for obtaining and installing O-Plan are provided via the main O-Plan Release Page.
O-Plan looks for an environment variable OPLANTMPDIR to use as the directory for temporary files. If no variable is specifically set, O-Plan will use the current directory you are in when you start O-Plan.
When O-Plan is run in HTTP mode, it creates a log file in which it records information about each HTTP request. Part of the O-Plan installation procedure is to create a directory to contain the log files. This directory is not provided automatically to ensure that you are made aware that it exists and can determine its location. The most likely source of your problem is either that the log file directory does not exist or that it does not grant you write permission.
Create a directory called "web-tmp" at the top level of the directory in which you installed O-Plan, and make it writable by everyone who will be using O-Plan. If you would like the directory to be in a different place, change the symbolic link source/web/demo/tmp.
See the file source/doc/http-mode for instructions on using O-Plan in HTTP mode.
O-Plan should be installed in such a way that "oplan" can be used as a shell command that invokes the "oplan" script provided by the O-Plan distribution.
If there are some combinations of command-line arguments that you repeatedly use, a convenient way to avoid specifying them each time is to create a short shell script that supplies them automatically while still allowing other parameters to be specified on the command line. For example:
#!/bin/sh exec oplan -http -browser netscape -domain house-4 "$@"
The "$@" is used to pass along any command-line arguments given when the script is run.
For further examples, see the files source/doc/ta-interface and source/doc/http-mode.
You can get a a stand-alone O-Plan planning system with a Web interface by running O-Plan in its HTTP server mode (see the file source/doc/http-mode). This provides an HTML interface to the planner in a form suitable for use with a Web browser. When O-Plan has successfully started in HTTP mode, it prints a URL. You can then direct a browser to that URL.
The Task Formalism Manual (pages 51-52) explains that iteration sets are expanded while planning and hence may be read from an external source or instantiated through variables. However, the values of all variables involved must be known at the time the schema containing the iteration is selected for expansion. For a fuller explanation of the issues involved, plus examples, see faq/iterated-nodes-and-variables.html.
The error message is written by "xterm" when O-Plan runs it to create a window. This happens on some Linux installations, but not on others, and there does not appear to be any effect on how the windows work after they've appeared.
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