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.