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Introduction

AIPS++http://aips2.nrao.edu is a system for astronomical data processing which is now in its third beta release. The first full release is expected in 1999. The heart of AIPS++ is a powerful command line interpreter call glish (Paxton 1993, Schiebel 1998).

DISH is a collection of glish scripts and clients which provide an environment within AIPS++ intended to be used for single dish radioastronomy data analysis. Its initial aim is to be a worthy replacement for traditional single dish analysis programs such as UniPOPS. Eventually it will provide access to more advanced data calibration and imaging utilities which will share the same basic design as the synthesis calibration and imaging utilities in AIPS++. The primary design goal has been to provide a graphical user interface that is intuitive, unsurprising, and responsive. Users should feel that results go to obvious places and, whenever possible, are displayed as they occur. Some uses of the single dish aspects of AIPS++ are reported by McMullin, Garwood, & Minter 1999.

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