CASA Basics — Information for First-Time Users

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This section assumes that CASA has been installed on your LINUX or OSX system. See Appendix A for instructions on how to obtain and install CASA.

  1.3.1 Before Starting CASA
   1.3.1.1 Environment Variables
   1.3.1.2 Where is CASA?
  1.3.2 Starting CASA
  1.3.3 Ending CASA
  1.3.4 What happens if something goes wrong?
  1.3.5 Aborting CASA execution
  1.3.6 What happens if CASA crashes?
  1.3.7 Python Basics for CASA
   1.3.7.1 Variables
   1.3.7.2 Lists and Ranges
   1.3.7.3 Indexes
   1.3.7.4 Indentation
   1.3.7.5 System shell access
   1.3.7.6 Executing Python scripts
  1.3.8 Getting Help in CASA
   1.3.8.1 TAB key
   1.3.8.2 help <taskname>
   1.3.8.3 help and PAGER
   1.3.8.4 help par.<parameter>
   1.3.8.5 Python help

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