Tasks in GIPSY are the application programs which do useful work for the user. ... To start a task without parameters, only the name of the task needs to be supplied. taskname To specify parameters, any number of keyword-value pairs separated by blanks can be added to the taskname: taskname keyword1 = value1 keyword2 = value2 .. ... The user can set a parameter in the task context to change requests for hidden keywords into requests for defaulted keywords. ... Tasks all run in a context . ...