A Quick Guide to Multimap
                    by Daniel E. Weeks

Basic Steps for running Multimap on CEPH-family data in LINKAGE-format:
       (if your data is already in CRI-MAP format skip to 3).

 1) Use 'lnktocri' to convert the pedfile to chrXX.gen, where 'XX'
    is the number of the chromosome (or any integer).
    You need to know the number of families and number of markers
    in your data file (Hint: If you do not know the number of families,
    put in a number larger and 'lnktocri' will tell you the number
    of families).

 2) Insert the marker names into the chrXX.gen file.
    It is better if the names are 8 or less characters long.
     (grep them out of the 'datain.dat' file
	      % grep # datain.dat > names
      and edit names to remove the leading columns
      If you have the Unix command 'colrm' availalbe, you can do
	      % colrm 1 8 < names > names2
      and paste 'names2' into 'chrXX.gen'.)

 3) Run 'lispcri' to create 'chrXX.dat'
         % lispcri XX prepare

 4) Run 'makenames' to create the 'chrXX.names' file.
              % makenames chrXX.loc > chrXX.names

 5) Start up the Lisp interpreter
	 % clisp

 6) Run 'create-input-file' to create the input file 'chrXX.input'
         > (create-input-file)

    If you need to customize your run and you chose defaults when
    creating the input file, editing the input file before step 7.

 7) Start the Multimap run
	 > (multimap XX)

NOTE:
  To exit from the Lisp interpreter, type
	> (quit)
  To exit from the debugger and return to main LISP prompt, type
        > abort