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 . ...

Next: MIDAS And the Up: Monitor and Command Previous: Monitor and Command . ... the MIDAS working directory for internal files and (optionally) private procedures: . ... On a Unix system use the option -m < mid_work > to change the default working directory, and -p or -P to run MIDAS in parallel mode љ when you start MIDAS via the command inmidas (see below). ... In NOPARALLEL mode all intermediate MIDAS files in the MIDAS startup directory are deleted when starting MIDAS via inmidas. ...

Changes SciSim v2.0.2 . ... default data files of binaries . ... SciSim is now using a shared library, in order to reduce impact on memory . Multiple configuration files . When using scisim from the command line, it is now allowed to specify multiple configuration files. ... Updated configuration and data-files . The following README files specify the changes in the data-files and in the configuration file: . ... 247 : ESIM documentation (configuration file) in alphabetical order . ...

The File System . A directory is a collection of files within a user's account (actually, it's a logical structure of files anywhere on the system, but we will focus here on how directories are used in your own user area). ... Typing DIR at the system prompt will list all the files in the current directory. ... DIR ). ... A directory can be deleted using the DELETE command, just like you would delete a file, except that the directory must be empty (no files in it) and the protection on the . ...

... An error involving a missing tasks parameter indicates that the parameter file may have changed between the last time the task was used and the current version. ... If still in trouble, delete the parameter file in `myiraf/uparm' corresponding to the task (the names are somewhat contrived, but with a bit of imagination it is not too difficult to identify the right one). ... The imcnts task and region masks . ... A region descriptor of the kind: . CIRCLE(403, 403, 22.5) . ... See `help regions'.) ...