# 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 2.1 was released on September, 11th 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 v2.1 (release date) - 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 submitted under current tickets. If the trac system tells you that your submission has been considered spam, please log in with the username "bugs" and password "mops".

## 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
- For FAQ's go to the

More detailed help is available via the help function.

The Trac page for ASAP also contains information about building from source and some more detailed information. It also shows information regarding release dates and milestones.

## 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

You need to be suscribed to send and receive messages from this list. To subscribe, please send a message to

    asap-users-request@atnf.csiro.au

with the single word "subscribe" in the body of the message. Send this from your normal email account. If you wish to be removed from this list send an email to asap-users-request@atnf.csiro.au with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.

## Download

ASAP binaries are available in the ATNF ftp area Please also consult the wiki

- We provide binaries for debian, fedora and OSX based systems. If yours isn't there send a request giving details about your flavour of linux.
- ASAP source code is available through our subversion repository

              svn co http://sourcecode.atnf.csiro.au/repos/asap/tags/asap2.1.1

## Important

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