# ASAP Homepage

## Introduction

The ATNF Spectral Analysis Package is a new software package to reduce single-dish, single-pointing spectral line observations. At this stage it is tuned towards data from ATNF instruments and reads/writes rpfits, sdfits and ms data. more...

## Current Release

ASAP latest stable version 2.0 was released on April, 27th 2006. It can be obtained in the Download section.

## Screenshots

Here are some example plots.

## How to run

To get started, simply type "asap" at the *nix command line prompt.

    Loading ASAP...
    Welcome to ASAP v2.0 (2006/04/27) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package

    Please report any bugs via:
    http://sourcecode.atnf.csiro.au/cgi-bin/trac_asap.cgi/newticket

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

    ASAP>

## Defects and enhancement requests

Bugs and enhancement requests can be submitted online, via the ASAP project tracking page. Please also check if the defect has already been sumbitted under current tickets.

## Documentation

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.

- List of commands (html)
- User Guide (html) (pdf)
- Reference manual (html) (pdf)
- Tutorials

More detailed help is available via the help function.

The Trac page for ASAP also contains information about building from source and code revisions and milestones. The current

## ASAP Mailinglist

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 http://www.atnf.csiro.au/lists/asap-users

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## Download

ASAP source code and binaries are available in the ATNF ftp area

- A binary tar archive of the latest stable release linux binary. You will need to have the following libraries:
  gcc-3.3, blas, lapack, g2c, boost_python and of course python2.3.
  The matplotlib python module has to be installed too.
- For Mac OSX 10.4 follow these instructions.
- Current stable release source code snapshot asap source You will need a full aips++ installation, or cyou an try and use the mini-aips++ tree, necessary to build ASAP.
- The ASAP data package, which contains information about observatories and coordinate frames can be downloaded here. You need this if you are building ASAP from source.

## Important

ASAP is 0-based, i.e. all ranges (vectors) go from 0..n-1, if n is the number of elements.