To start you must issue the usual ASTSTART command, but note that it must be in lowercase.
The program development system can be made available usingcsh> aststart
You can of course put these two commands in your login procedure .login in your home directory. If you want to run ASTERIX in script or batch mode under UNIX, you should also put these commands in your script files.csh> astdev
All commands must be given in full and in lowercase from the shell. Commands issued from ICL may be abbreviated as on VMS.
Since commands are invoked from the shell some command syntax is interpreted as shell metacharacters. These include parenthesis, bracket, quote, double quote and backslash. You can usually get around this by including the offending string in single quotes, eg.
When responding to prompts neither thecsh> statistix 'file.data_array(1:100,2:20)'
<TAB> function for editing
the default nor command-line recall is yet available.
Parameter values are case insensitive except for graphics devices and filenames. No file extension is assumed for ASCII files. (On VMS ".DAT" is assumed if no extension is given.)