Tailoring the SLIMED distribution to your setting is done in a crude way. 
I welcome suggestions for less tedious ways

Suggestion for general improvements to this document are welcomed.

-) are things need to do the first time and then rarely for updates
=) are things done for updates

__________________________ Guide to installing SLIMED _________________________

-) Create an empty directory to hold the SLIM system.
      E.g. /work2/DistSLIM/   Call this the 'corral'

-) Create a related directory, but not under the above, to hold the files
  you will need to edit for you location. Call this the 'Holding' directory.
     E.g.,  /work2/DistLocal/

=)  cd  to the corral
   do: tar -xvf  SLIMv2.tar   
   Should create 3 subdirectories 
    doc       # Documents:  read  AAinstall, Guide.pdf and Algo
    code      # IDL code 
    data      # Data files input and output to the SLIM system
 
-) Add  corral/idl/ to your IDL path

-) The IDL version of the NAIF SPICE library is required.
   It is accessed by a line in sliminit.pro, which will need to be modified for each installation.
-) Edit  sliminit.pro   to your paths.  Copy to Holding

-) Edit  slimfame.pro  to your paths.  Copy to Holding
     Update the values in the right-hand column for rows 0,3,7,9 and 
    possibly 12; look at fileuniq.pro, argument 'howin' to see what this does   
           Files will be written in parf[3]+parf[4] and parf[3]+parf[7]

-) Edit  slimsatt.pro  to your paths  Copy to Holding
     Edit the values in the right-hand column of the firm-code as you wish,
       for all rows except 0, 9 ,11, 13  . 
       Note 4 and 12 are long and must be edited lower in the routine.

=) Copy the files from Holding on top of the distribution

=) Ensure that sliminit.pro is where it will be found by your normal IDL path.

-) For trials, can copy some sample _wt, _tv and _ir files from '/data/' (parf[9]
to  ---/S/ (parf[3]+parf[4])

-)  Try running (see below). It probably will fail
   Look at slimgiro.pro and edit as needed to convert your lunar 
      observation files into SLIM format.
   Then copy to Holding

_____________________________ Guide to Running SLIMED _________________________


cd to your normal IDL directory
Start IDL
do:    sliminit   before anything else. 
This will reset !path and register the SPICE library


=) do: .comp slimntop
   Define the filee and matt arrays as described in slimgiro.pro
   do:    slimntop,parf,filee,matt     
      Files will be written in parf[3]+parf[4] and parf[3]+parf[7]

It should run in a few seconds at most.  If attributes or variables are missing
in the instrument GIRO files, error messages will appear for each input file.  I
could find no way to avoid this. You may have to tailor slimgiro.pro, or write
an alternate that fits your lunar observation files.
   
When additional observation files are available, you can edit items 5 and 8 when
SLIMFAME is called to assign modified output file names, or let the subroutine
FILEUNIQ handle it. When a file already exists, you will be given a choice
    0 = replace last character of the acronym 
    1 = insert 1 character after the acronym
   19 = overwrite the existing file
   20 or larger = enter the full path-name to use
   else = do not write any file
Options can be preset by changing item 12 in SLIMFAME to one of these values.