Chapter 12
 for the More Sophisticated User

The program AIPS uses the  language to communicate with you.  has many capabilities that have been hidden or taken for granted in the previous sections. Once you start to become familiar with , you will need to know more about  to take full advantage of the powerful features which are available. The first section below describes some of the shortcuts and conventions of  while the second section describes program flow control options.. The third section describes multiple features of the  language including the constructions of procedures. The fourth section addresses the needs of “remote” users of , while the last section discusses how to begin writing your own  tasks.

 12.1 conventions
  12.1.1 AIPS shortcuts
  12.1.2 Data-file names and formats
 12.2 Process control features of
  12.2.1 RUN files
  12.2.2 More about GO
  12.2.3 Batch jobs
 12.3 AIPS language
  12.3.1 Using outside of procedures
  12.3.2 Procedures
  12.3.3 Writing your own programs with
 12.4 Remote use of
  12.4.1 Connections via X-Windows
  12.4.2 Connections to a terminal
  12.4.3 File transfer connections
 12.5 Moving data to a new computer
 12.6 Adding your own tasks to
  12.6.1 Initial choices to make
  12.6.2 Getting started
  12.6.3 Initial check of code and procedures
  12.6.4 Modifying an task
  12.6.5 Modifying an template task.
  12.6.6 Further remarks