next up previous contents index
Next: Simple MIDAS Session Up: Cook-Book Previous: Commands

Getting Started

  The first thing to do is to login to the computer which you would like to use for your data reductions. The detailed procedure for getting permission to use the computer and getting allocated disk space for your data reductions can be found in Appendix gif. Assuming that you have succeeded in logging into the computer, the following subsections describe typical use of MIDAS.

When you have logged in you should check that you have sufficient disk space in the directory in which you are working. For reductions of images an area of the order of 50 Mbytes would be adequate while for spectra reductions and analysis of final results less space is needed. Now you are ready to start the MIDAS system:





next up previous contents index
Next: Simple MIDAS Session Up: Cook-Book Previous: Commands



Pascal Ballester
Fri Mar 24 17:17:52 MET 1995