Chapter 3
Basic  Utilities

This chapter reviews some basic  utilities with which you should be familiar before you start calibrating data or processing images in . Many of these utilities will appear in later chapters on calibration, image making, and so on. However, in those chapters, these utilities will be explained only briefly.

 3.1 Talking to
  3.1.1 and utilities
  3.1.2 Tasks
  3.1.3 Verbs
  3.1.4 Adverbs
 3.2 Your message file
 3.3 Your data catalog files
  3.3.1 Speedy data file selection
  3.3.2 Catalog entry status
  3.3.3 Renaming data files
  3.3.4 Header listings
 3.4 Your history files
 3.5 Saving and restoring inputs
 3.6 Monitoring disk space
 3.7 Moving and compressing files
 3.8 Finding helpful information in
 3.9 Magnetic tapes
  3.9.1 Hardware tape mount
  3.9.2 Software mounting local tapes
  3.9.3 Software mounting REMOTE tapes
  3.9.4 Using tapes in
 3.10 external disk files
  3.10.1 Disk text files
  3.10.2 RUN files
  3.10.3 FITS-disk files
  3.10.4 Other binary data disk files
 3.11 The array processor
 3.12 Additional recipes