Description of Syntax

The individual commands are treated in alphabetical order in the following section. The novice would be well-served by reading the treatments of the data, model, newpar, and fit commands, in that order, then the other commands as needed. The write-up for each command includes a brief description of the purpose, an outline of the correct syntax, a more detailed discussion of the command assumptions and purpose, and a series of examples. Some commands have one or more subcommands that are similarly described following the command.

In the command description, the syntax uses the following conventions.

<arg>			!		an argument to the command
<arg c> =:: <arg a> <arg b>			!		defines <arg c> as <arg a> followed by <arg b>
<arg>...			!		a repeated string of arguments of the same type
[<arg>]			!		is an optional argument.
{ <arg a> | <arg b> }			!		indicates a choice between an argument of type
		!		<arg a> or <arg b>

Exceptional responses to the command prompt are :

an empty line	- Nothing performed, prompt repeated
/	- Any remaining arguments will have the values given on the last invocation of the command
<EOF>	- same as quit
	otherwise use /$\ast$
? (or anything else)	- Write a list of the commands