Basic setup for using sm.

To use sm, you just need to have a .sm file in your home directory.  A basic .sm file looks something like this:

device          x11 -g +20+178 -background white -foreground black
history         80
history_file    /home/yourname/.smhist
temp_dir        /tmp/
TeX_strings     1

(of course, change "yourname" to your actual username)

Once you've saved this file as .sm, just type sm at a terminal prompt to start the program running.

To learn how to read in data and make plots, look at the information on the sm web page.