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4 Macro commands
The ASTERIX package contains several higher level commands which
combine primitive commands in useful sequences. These are
implemented as ICL procedures. A simple example is the IZOOM
command in the image processing. This combines the primitive commands
IBOX and IDISPLAY to change the displayed limits of a plot interactively.
Some macro commands have parameters and it is important to realise
that these are parameters to ICL procedures, not ADAM parameters.
They must always be supplied on the command line. Details of the
parameters required by a macro command are given in the help for
that command. Macro commands are distinguished in the help system
by having the suffix '*'.
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