1. How to run the program:

The program is in the directory: /usr/local/spim/bin/. For convenience to run the program, you can add the following line in your .tcshrc file:

set path=(/usr/local/spim/bin/ $path)

After this, you can directly run the program by typing “xspim”.

2. How to load an assembly file:

Click the button “load” in xspim and then type the file name. Note: If your “xspim” doesn’t run in the directory where your assembly files is, you have to type the file name with its complete directory in order to load the file into Xspim.

3. Comments

Comments in SPIM begin with a sharp-sign #.

4. What’s the extension of the programming running in xspim?

s. Your file name should be filename.s