; HELP ;--------------------------------------------------------------- ;! displays information on tasks, verbs, adverbs ;# VERB POPS GENERAL ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Copyright (C) 1995-1996, 2004, 2013 ;; Associated Universities, Inc. Washington DC, USA. ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of ;; the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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' ' => HELP Used if no immediate argument DOCRT -4.0 132.0 >= -1 => use terminal < -1 use line printer OUTPRINT Printer disk file to save VERSION Desired version of this info The identity of the information desired may be given as an immediate argument, i.e. HELP APCLN. If no immediate argument is given TASK is used with ' ' => HELP which lists special kinds of files to provide additional information and lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------- HELP Type: Pseudoverb Use: Causes helpful information to appear on your terminal. The grammar is: HELP nnnnnnnn to list information about the individual verb, adverb, pseudoverb, or task named (in nnnnnnnn). Additional informative HELP files are listed below. Lists of tasks, verbs, adverbs, and procedures by category may be displayed with the ABOUT pseudoverb (see HELP ABOUT). Some tasks have additional usage information which is shown by the EXPLAIN pseudoverb. The AIPS CookBook is the primary source of information about AIPS. Each installation of AIPS contains the CookBook in the directory $AIPS_ROOT/TEXT/PUBL with each chapter in PostScript form named COOK?.PS (? = chapter number or appendix letter). The full CookBook in pdf form is available as well. It is named COOKBOOK.PDF and allows you to search for strings, follow section and index links, and even look at HELP files in your browser. Use the adobe reader - cheap imitations do not work as well. If this directory is not readily available, you may also use the web to get at the CookBook. The web page http:www.aips.nrao.edu/cook.html takes you to the table of contents. The first paragraph of this page has links to the full cross-referenced versions of the CookBook in html and in pdf. Adverbs: TASK........If no immediate argument is given, TASK names the object (task, verb, adverb, procedure, etc.) to be described. ' ' => HELP (this file). DOCRT.......Allows the output to go directly to the line printer if DOCRT < -1. Else the terminal is used. With OUTPRINT not blank, DOCRT=-3 suppresses the page-feed character in header lines; DOCRT=-4 suppresses the header lines except at the beginning. OUTPRINT....Disk file name in which to save the line printer output. ' ' => use scratch and print immediately for interactive jobs - batch jobs use OUTPRINT = 'PRTFIL:BATCHjjj.nnn' (jjj = job #, nnn = user #). When OUTPRINT is not blank, multiple outputs are concatenated and the file is not actually printed. VERSION.....Version of HELP information desired, i.e. 'OLD', 'NEW'. See HELP VERSION for details. The following HELPers give additional information about AIPS HELP Equivalent to HELP HELP HELP ADVERBS does HELP REALS, HELP ARRAYS, and HELP STRINGS in that order HELP ARRAYS Lists all arrays in the symbol table HELP REALS Lists all real, non-array adverbs in the symbol table HELP STRINGS Lists all characters string adverbs in the symbol table HELP VERBS Lists all verbs in the symbol table followed by all pseudoverbs HELP PSEUDOS List all pseudo verbs in the symbol table HELP PROCS Lists all procedures in the symbol table HELP PROCEDURES Lists all procedures in the symbol table HELP POPSYM Symbols used in POPS interpretive language (non-alphabetic, math, ...) HELP POPSDAT The data structure from which the initial POPS vocabulary for AIPS is constructed. HELP CATEGORY List of allowed primary categories for help files. HELP SECONDARY List of allowed secondary categories for help files = list of ABOUT keywords. HELP WHATSNEW Major changes in AIPS since the last update HELP USERLIST Tells you where to find the latest list of VLA users by alphabetic & numeric order HELP DOTASK Information used in executing tasks HELP NEWTASK Writing and incorporating a new task into AIPS HELP NOADVERB What to do when an adverb appears to be missing (or a verb, pseudoverb, ...) HELP PANIC Solutions to common problems. HELP CALIBRAT General info on the calibration of VLA and VLB continuum and line data. HELP UVnTYPE Information on convolution functions of type number n (n = 1 - 6). HELP device Information on the use of AIPS workstation pseudo devices, where device = XAS (main TV server), TEKSRV or TEKSERVER (Tektronix graphics emulator), and MSGSRV or MSGSERVER (message monitor for tasks). The general help/explain files listing verbs and tasks have been replaced by help files accessed with the pseudoverb ABOUT. These new files will be updated regularly using software tools and, hence, will be more current than previous lists. ----------------------------------------------------------------