Commands currently recognized by ROBOT

Some commands need arguments which are entered on the following line or sometimes on the next two lines. For one line arguments these may now be placed on the same line as the command providing you use the ``terse'' form (e.g. ``polfit 3'' is acceptable but not ``polynomial fit 3''). For a two or more line argument the first argument only may be specified on the command line. For several commands the graphics cursor can be used if you hit return in reply to the request for an argument (e.g. to position text). You should then click on the left hand mouse button in the desired position. If an abbreviation can be used instead of the full command this is given in brackets below. The menu items displayed on the screen will typically be rather less terse then are shown below. However, the command names written below are what is actually written to the output log file. In general, either the long or the short forms should be recognized by ROBOT. Some commands also have a couple of ``aliases'' (e.g. to allow for ``British'' and U.S. spellings) A number of the buttons on the main control panel cause secondary panels to be popped up. At the moment these are for controlling the color, printing, fitting and reading FITS binary table (``FITS 3D'') files.