CRSP

1 CRSP, COMPUSTAT, CCM

1.1 access

1. email the VDC sysadmin to provide credentials and prepare your remote terminal
   • host: crsp.vdc.univie.ac.at
   • user: your username
   • password: your password
2. Establish a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to Uni if working from home or if you cannot establish an SSH connection (see ZID/VPN). You wouldn't have to use VPN if working from the institute's PC-labor #6.644.
3. If working from Windows, you might need to install an SSH-client like PUTTY) to use Secure Shell (SSH) to connect to your terminal. Accept the server key.
4. now you work remotely and use the remote host's command line (which is the bash shell, don't type the beginning "$", which is the prompt):
   1. the midnight-commander (mc) provides an built-in editor mcedit (exit it with Alt+0)

      $ mc 

      $ mcedit ts_samp7.rqt 

   2. e.g. use "ts_print" to process a requirementfile "ts_samp7.rqt" and get the output "ts_samp7.out":

      $ ts_print ts_samp7.rqt

      look into ts_samp7.out with:

      $ cat ts_samp7.out 

   3. use e.g. this command to get the switches for the command crsp_print:

      $ crsp_print /d1  /var/crsp/2019-07/crspdata/cmz201807

5. use an SFTP client like CyberDuck to download the results of your terminal session onto your desktop for further processing
6. Please read some manuals to gain experience with the ts_sampleX.rqt files in your home directory: CRSP Utilities and Program Libraries (CUPL) and maybe the xf-understanding_the_data guide.