2 Starting up Surf

 2.1 Getting help

The Surf environment can be initialised from the C-shell using the surf command.

  % surf
  
     SURF - SCUBA User Reduction Facility
       Commands are now available -- (Version 1.6-0)
  
       Type scuhelp for help on SURF commands.
       Type "showme sun216" to browse the hypertext documentation.
  

Note that the % represents the C-shell prompt and shouldn’t be typed. Surf is also available from the ICL command language.

2.1 Getting help

Help is available in two forms; from the command-line and via a hypertext version of this document. The command-line version is available with

  % scuhelp

and the hypertext version can be obtained with

  % findme surf

or

  % showme sun216

A WWW browser will be started up if necessary.

It is possible to start the help system when responding to an ADAM prompt. Supplying a ‘?’ will give more information on the parameter being requested and supplying ‘??’ will start the interactive help system.

There are also two cookbooks available; one dealing with the reduction of photometry data [9] and the other dealing with the reduction of map data [10].

Alternatively, you can contact JCMT staff for advice via the World-Wide-Web2.

2http://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/help