TCB::Equipment - TCB Group Equipment Database
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TCB::Equipment is a DBIx::Frame object written to keep track of equipment
and software at the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at
UIUC.  It provides an administrative web interface for adding and managing
equipment and software and sharing this information with the users.  This
is actually a fairly basic function of research groups, but doesn't have a
standard software package.

Specific tables are described in the following modules:

  TCB::System::Equipment  Hardware and Software
  TCB::System::License    Software Licenses
  TCB::System::Package    Software Packages

Prerequisites
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You must have the following modules installed:

  TCB::System		v0.99
  DBIx::Frame		v1.05

You will also need a running database (mysql is the only one tested), and 
permission to either use the existing contents or create new ones.

Installation Notes
==================

Installing this software is easy:

  perl Makefile.pl
  make
  make test
  make install

Database creation should be taken care of with TCB::System.

Documentation
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All of the documentation is in the manual pages - 'man TCB::Equipment' after
installation, or 'pod2text TCB/Equipment.pm | less' right now.  'perldoc
TCB::Equipment' probably also works.

Web Page
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http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/MDTools/tcb-equipment/

                            - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@ks.uiuc.edu)
-- 
   Theoretical and Computational    http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/
Biophysics, Beckman Institute, UIUC    Senior Systems Administrator
