INP, GO, and TASK

To inspect the inputs of a task, as well as to select the task, e.g. histo type

        Miriad% inp histo

miriad will show the parameters of the task along with the values, if any, previously set. For example, if, the first time you run miriad, you type:

        Miriad% inp histo

miriad will reply by writing:

        Task:   histo
        in       =
        region   = 
        range    =  
        nbin     =

and will replace the Miriad% prompt with a task prompt

        histo%

indicating that you have chosen the task histo. You can also choose the task histo without using inp by typing:

        Miriad% task histo

miriad will then replace the Miriad% prompt with the histo% prompt, but the inputs will not be printed out. In either way a parameter can be set by typing any of:

        histo% in=gauss
        histo% set in gauss

(the first form being preferred). In either case retyping:

        histo% inp

will result in miriad replying:

        Task:   histo
        in       = gauss
        region   =  
        range    =  
        nbin     =

Tasks are run either by typing go taskname at the Miriad% prompt (advisable only if you know you like the inputs) or by typing go at the taskname% prompt. Thus, in the above example, typing:

        histo% go

would result in the task histo running with in=gauss as the only assigned paramater (all the other parameters were set to their default values).

Any task can be run regardless of the chosen task, merely by typing:

        Miriad% go itemize

miriad then executes the task itemize (using whatever input parameters it finds from the lastexit file or a previous run) and changes the default task and prompt to:

        itemize%