The help facility of MIDAS (command HELP) provides detailed
descriptions of all supported commands and qualifiers. This applies
also to the HELP command itself.
If you work in an X-Window environment we suggest to use XHelp, the
graphical user
interface to the MIDAS Help facility, by executing the MIDAS command
CREATE/GUI HELP.
It is recommended to execute this command before any
LOAD/IMAGE command, otherwise you could get problems with missing
colors.
Besides providing a separate and convenient interface to the MIDAS Help utility
this GUI also supports a
feedback facility for reporting errors,
problems and suggestions to the
MIDAS group at ESO (this problem-report
mechanism is based on the commercial Action Remedy System).
And if you use the readline line-editor you can
also update the MIDAS Help facility with the current command-line by typing
or
.
Also, the TUTORIAL commands will help you in exploring the
MIDAS system. Use the MIDAS command HELP TUTORIAL to find out
which tutorials exist and try them out.
There is also a tutorial about the HELP command itself. Use
TUTORIAL/HELP to exercise many of the features described in this section.
Besides the HELP GUI you can enter HELP commands from the terminal;
the syntax for using HELP from the command line are given in the
table Help Syntax.