This User Guide is intended as an introduction to the tools and facilities available to people wanting to find out about, keep informed about, and get involved in the B A B A R experiment. The guide is particularly aimed at computing matters, hopefully including data analysis when appropriate, but many issues such as communications are more widely applicable. Wherever possible the reader is referred to more comprehensive documentation elsewhere and only a brief summary is included in this Guide. Hopefully, however, enough information is included here for day to day use. The order of the sections is somewhat arbitrary although we have tried to keep the simple stuff near the beginning and the more ``advanced'' stuff near the end. This guide is not really intended to be read through from start to finish but rather accessed randomly via the index when we get one. Information may be repeated in more than one place if it seems relevant. Hopefully the different references are consistent. The guide is currently heavily biased towards things at SLAC. In the future more information particular to remote sites may be included, either directly or as appendices.

Several people have contributed to this Guide and several sections are copied directly from other documents and Web pages. How useful the document is will depend not least on comments from readers so if you have some comments, please send then to me. Even better you could write the missing sections ! Please send comments, criticisms, suggestions, contributions etc. to N.I.Geddes@rl.ac.uk.

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Neil I. Geddes
1998-11-18