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<h2>Introduction</h2>
The <b class='asap'>A</b>TNF <b class='asap'>S</b>pectral <b
class='asap'>A</b>nalysis <b class='asap'>P</b>ackage is a new
software package to reduce <em>single-dish, single-pointing spectral
line observations</em>. At this stage it is tuned towards data from
ATNF instruments and reads/writes <em>rpfits, sdfits and ms</em> data.
<a href="intro.html">more...<a>

<h2>Current Release</h2>
ASAP latest stable version 1.2.1 was released on December, 6<sup>th</sup> 2005. It can be obtained in the <a href="#download">Download</a> section.

<h2>Screenshots</h2>
<a href="screenshots.html">Here</a> are some example plots.

<h2>How to run</h2>
To get started, simply type "asap" at the *nix command line prompt.
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Loading ASAP...
Welcome to ASAP v1.2.1 (2005/12/06) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package

Please report any bugs to:
asap@atnf.csiro.au

[IMPORTANT: ASAP is 0-based]
Type commands() to get a list of all available ASAP commands.

ASAP>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
ASAP has a user guide for general use and telescope specific examples,
and a reference manual for people who want to write scripts to reduce
and analyse their data.
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  <li> List of commands <a href="commands.html">(html)</a> </li>
  <li> User Guide <a href="userguide/">(html)</a> <a href="userguide.pdf">(pdf)</a></li>
  <li> Reference manual <a href="refman/">(html)</a> <a href="refman.pdf">(pdf)</a></li>
  <li><a href="tutorials/">Tutorials</a></li>
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More detailed help is available via the <b>help</b> function.
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<h2>ASAP Mailinglist </h2>

There is an asap mailing list asap-users@atnf.csiro.au for users of
asap. This list will be used to announce updates to the code and allow
general user discussion (please send bug and feature requests to
asap@atnf.csiro.au). Messages sent to this list are archived at
<a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/lists/asap-users"> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/lists/asap-users</a>


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<a name="download"><h2>Download</h2></a>
ASAP source code and binaries are available in the <a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/">ATNF ftp area</a>
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  <li>Current stable release source code snapshot <a
      href="ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/asap_src.tar.bz2">asap source</a> </li>
  <li> A binary tar archive of the latest stable release <a
      href=ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/asap_linux.tar.bz2>linux binary</a>.
      You will need to have the following libraries:<br>
      gcc-3.3, blas, lapack, g2c, boost_python and of course
      python2.3.<br>
      The matplotlib python module has to be installed too.
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  <li>For Mac OSX 10.4 follow <a href="./osx.html">these instructions.</a>
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<h2>Important</h2>
ASAP is 0-based, i.e. all ranges (vectors) go from
0..n-1, if n is the number of elements.
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