Documentation on miriad


Task: miriad
Purpose: Simple Miriad front-end for dumb terminals.
Categories: tools

  "miriad" is a command-line front-end to run Miriad tasks from a dumb
  terminal. The commands that you give it are somewhat AIPS-like.
  Unrecognised commands are passed to the host command interpreter.

  The following are the recognised commands:

    set  key   value           Set or show a keyword.
     key = value               Set a keyword.
    unset  key  [ key  ... ]   Unset keyword(s).
    er  key                    Line-edit a keyword value.
    task [ task ]              Set/show default task.
    inp [ task ]               Show settings of keywords to task.
    go [-b] [ task ]           Run a task.
    help [ task ] [-k key]     Help on a task or topic.
    view [ task ]              Edit keyword file for task.
    save/load [file]           Save/load global keyword file.
    tget/tput [-l] [ task ]    Save/load task keyword file.
    setenv env value           Set environment variable.
    unsetenv env               Unset environment variable.
    cd  dir                    Change and/or show current directory
    source  file               Read commands from  file 
    exit                       Exit miriad and save variables.
    quit                       Exit miriad and do not save variables.

  Type
    help tasks
  for more information about Miriad tasks.

Generated by rsault@atnf.csiro.au on 11 Jul 1996