SUN/50.24

Starlink Project
Starlink User Note 50.24

I D Howarth, J Murray, D Mills & D S Berry

5th March 2004

Copyright © 2000 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils


DIPSO — A friendly spectrum analysis program

V3.6-4

User Guide



Contents

1 Introduction
2 Getting Started
 2.1 Absolute beginners
 2.2 Doing something
3 Data Storage
 3.1 Internal Data Storage
 3.2 Data Storage on Disk
4 Command Input
 4.1 Command Line Recall and Editing
5 Command Procedures
6 Batch Processing
7 Plotting
 7.1 Plotting options
 7.2 Cursor commands
 7.3 Default plotting (and other) options
 7.4 Getting hardcopy plots
8 The User Code Interface
 8.1 The “LOGICAL USER” Function
 8.2 Building your own binary
 8.3 Debugging your code
 8.4 Local documentation
 8.5 Data access
  8.5.1 More on data storage
  8.5.2 Creating NDFs in your own programs
  8.5.3 Getting data from the stack
  8.5.4 Pushing data onto the stack
9 Emission Line Fitting (ELF)
 9.1 ELF commands
 9.2 ELF data storage
 9.3 ELF general procedures
10 Words of Warning!
11 Acknowledgements
A Command Specifications
 A.1 Individual Commands
 A.2 Finally...
B History
 B.1 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.6-5
 B.2 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.6-4
 B.3 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.6
 B.4 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.5-6
 B.5 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.5-5
 B.6 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.5
 B.7 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.4
 B.8 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.3
 B.9 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.2
 B.10 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.1
 B.11 Changes introduced by DIPSO V3.00
 B.12 Changes introduced by DIPSO V2.00