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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 release 1.1 of ASAP is available on linux systems at ATNF
<a href="intro.html">more...<a>

<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...
Initialising plotter...
Welcome to ASAP v1.1 (2005/06/22) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package

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

[NOTE: 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 cookbook for general use, 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> Cookbook  <a href="cookbook/">(html)</a> or Cookbook <a href="cookbook.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>Download</h2>

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  <li> The current release source code snapshot <a
      href="ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/asap_src.tar.gz">asap source</a> </li>
  <li> A binary tar archive <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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