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author: Eric Mandel
show_author: ShowNone
author_organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
node_expert: eric@cfa.harvard.edu
expiration_date: 12/31/93
last_modifier: eric@cfa.harvard.edu
last_mod_date: 11/13/92
mod_num: 3
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@b<This window tells you how to maintain your own notes and recipes in the ASSIST.>

Your notes and recipes concerning how to carry out a research program
using IRAF can be added to the @b<Ask Questions> side of ASSIST by
placing these notes and recipes in a file called @b<user.recipes> in
the @b<uparm> directory.  The file is converted into a button in the
@b<Ask Questions> window which, when pressed, brings up another window
containing text for the notes and buttons for the tasks. The text can
be read as a reminder of what to do and the buttons can be pressed to
bring up the relevant parameter editors.  As always, the necessary
packages are loaded when a parameter editor is selected.

Text is specified by placing an IRAF comment character, @b<#>, at
the beginning of a line.  Non-commented lines are assumed to be IRAF
tasks or, if they are not found in the IRAF help data base, non-IRAF
programs. For example, consider the following @b<user.recipes> file:
@break
	# To get a radial profile of an X-ray source: @break
	# (use an annuli for source region and @break
	# either an annulus or a circle for bkgd) @break
	imcnts @break
	# To display the table we just created @break
	tprint @break
	# To plot the table: @break
	# (The input param should be a string with @break
	# table name and 2 columns to plot) @break
	sgraph

This file will result in a window with a few lines of text and 3
buttons, one for each task.  By clicking on a task button, the
appropriate parameter editor is activated and can be used to perform
further analysis.

To learn more about the @b<Ask Questions> side of ASSIST:
@button<Ask Questions, Ask_Questions>