<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998) originally by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Starting the MIDAS Session</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Starting the MIDAS Session"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="vol2"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="vol2.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node459.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node457.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node455.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node459.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html7174" HREF="node459.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="icons.gif/next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html7171" HREF="node455.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="icons.gif/up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html7165" HREF="node457.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="icons.gif/previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html7173" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="icons.gif/contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html7175" HREF="node459.html">Reading the Data</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html7172" HREF="node455.html">Echelle Reduction</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html7166" HREF="node457.html">Auxiliary Data</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION002730000000000000000"> Starting the MIDAS Session</A> </H1> <P> You should first get an account and a disk area on the computers you want to work on (ask the system manager or see Vol A, Appendix D). <P> After login into the system, you can start the MIDAS environment by typing the <B>inmidas</B> command. On a workstation, you may provide a 2 characters strings for the identification of the terminal: in most of the cases, you need to visualise images or graphics, so give two digits; otherwise give a two letters strings (default is 00). <P> The reduction of echelle spectra requires a set of dedicated commands which are defined under the context <TT>ECHELLE</TT>. Therefore each reduction session starts with the command <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <TT>SET/CONTEXT echelle</TT></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> to activate the echelle specific commands and to set all parameters to default values. Frequent users can integrate this command as well as display and graphic window creation commands in the <B>login.prg</B> file located in the working directory or in the <TT>MID_WORK</TT> directory. <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> <I>Petra Nass</I> <BR><I>1999-06-15</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>
