Changes to the Monte Carlo should be pretty much transparent to the user.
Note for simc users: in the past you could select "spectrometer 5" for the
SSA tune for the shms and "spectrometer 6" for the LSA. The default is now 5.
If you select 6, the Monte Carlo should give you an error message and quit. 
If you look at the code, you will see lots of remarks about SSA and LSA - 
I have not taken the time to remove all this in the interest of getting
this out quickly.

While some details may change in the future, the above operating parameters
will not change much globally. Once a final design is finished, we will
update the Monte Carlo. We will likely not do many (or any?) incremental
updates until then just to avoid confusion.  Obvious bugs will be fixed
however. 


*******SIMC CVS checkout instructions (from JLab machines only)**********

To download the latest version make sure you have CVSROOT set to
/group/hallc/cvsroot, i.e.,

setenv CVSROOT /group/hallc/cvsroot

Then simply type:

cd directory_where_I_want_my_new_installation/

cvs checkout simc_semi


******SIMC CVS update instructions *******

If you have previously checked out SIMC via cvs and wish to update,
do the following.

1) Go to your simc/shms directory. Rename the following files (*.bak or
something):

struct_shms.inc
mc_shms.f
mc_shms_hut.f
mc_shms_recon.f

2) Go up one directory and type "cvs update -d"

Normally, the first step is not needed - it is an artifact of the way I 
"replaced" those files in the CVS repository. If you skip the first
step, you will get conflicts that must be resolved by hand.