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This chapter is organised as follows:
- In the first two sections we describe how to start MIDAS and how
the host operating system and MIDAS coexist.
- Section 3 explains the different data structures used in MIDAS and how
to access them in a MIDAS session.
- Section 4 describes the syntax of the MIDAS commands, as well as
the editing and recalling of commands and also the on-line HELP
facility in MIDAS.
- In section 5 you will find some details about how the MIDAS commands
are executed.
- Then follows the largest and most detailed section (section 6),
which gives
in-depth information about the MIDAS command language ( MCL).
With MCL you can write high level MIDAS ``programs'' which
are called MIDAS procedures to distinguish them from programs
written in a language like FORTRAN-77 or C.
The topics include:
- the MCL commands
- passing parameters in MIDAS procedures
- symbol substitution
- loops and conditional branching
- special functions
- Section 7 introduces the MIDAS contexts.
- Section 8 explains how to run application programs written
in FORTRAN or C inside MIDAS. It also shows how to debug
these programs as well as MIDAS procedures.
- All the commands related to MIDAS
catalogs are listed in section 9, together with an example of how to use
catalogs in MIDAS procedures.
- The MIDAS login procedure and MIDAS user levels are the topics
of the last two sections.
The MIDAS directory tree structure is not covered in this chapter.
For those interested, please refer to the MIDAS Environment document .
Pascal Ballester
Fri Mar 24 17:17:52 MET 1995