
The package simulates the ROOT behaviour for the minimal istructions used
in the examples with TH1F and TFile objects, for machines where ROOT
is not available.
Histograms can be saved to a binary file and later dumped to screen and/or
converted to ROOT file by tools provided in the package.

*** Install and compile ***

After unpacking the util.tgz file in a directory ..., simply run the script
.../util/fakeROOT/install
The full path must be used, issuing the simple command "install"
after setting the current directory at /util/fakeROOT does not work,
even if the "." is included in the path list.

*** Usage ***

After installation, the ROOTSYS environment variable can be set to refer
to the fakeROOT package issuing the command
. .../util/fakeROOT/bin/thisroot.sh
or
source .../util/fakeROOT/bin/thisroot.csh
for Bourne-shell or C-shell respectively.

If this command is executed when "true" ROOT is available, the environment
will be overwritten and the "true" ROOT will be no more accessible, until
it's restored.

*** Dump and conversion of histograms ***

When histograms have been written to a hist.fake file, they can be dumped
to the screen issuing the command
.../util/fakeROOT/bin/dumpHisto hist.fake
and giving the name of the histogram to dump.

The binary file can be copied to a machine where "true" ROOT is available;
after installing the fakeROOT package as described before all the histogram
in the hist.fake file can be converted to ROOT format and saved into hist.root
file issuing the command
.../util/fakeROOT/bin/recoverHisto hist.fake hist.root

