DASH: A Data Analysis Shell.
Manual For MACRO Users
V2.1

Edward Kearns
Department of Physics, Boston University

December 2, 1993

• Contents
• Introduction
  • A simple example session
  • Philosophy
• Terminology
• How to write a DASH module
  • What to put in each entrypoint
• How to tell DASH about your module
  • How to link your program using VMS
  • How to link your program using Unix
• More DASH Features
  • DASHLOGON and BATCH files
  • How to filter events with your module
  • Print and debug levels
  • Command Line Interface
  • Histograms
  • Ntuples, how to implement
  • Analysis Control and Bookkeeping
  • Using HIGZ Graphics
• Troubleshooting
• Installation
• DASH Command Reference
  • INPUT inpfil [ opts ]
  • OUTPUT flag [ outfil opts ]
  • PATH [ mod ]
  • BOOK modnam [ dir ]
  • ANALYZE [ nana ]
  • SKIP nskip
  • FILTER flag modnam
  • TALK modnam [ cmdline ]
  • CALL entryp [ modnam ]
  • STATUS
  • RUNLIST
    • RUNLIST/INCLUDE run [ event run2 event2 ]
    • RUNLIST/EXCLUDE run [ event run2 event2 ]
    • RUNLIST/CLEAR
    • RUNLIST/PRINT
  • COUNT
    • COUNT/PRINT
    • COUNT/CLEAR
    • COUNT/EVENTS flag [ type mod ]
    • COUNT/RUNS flag
    • COUNT/FILES flag
  • HIST
    • HIST/WRITE hbkfil
    • HIST/PRINT id [ dir ]
    • HIST/RESET id [ title dir ]
    • HIST/DELETE id [ dir ]
    • HIST/HBOOK1 id chtitl nx xmi xma vmx [ dir ]
    • HIST/HBOOK2 id chtitl nx xmi xma ny ymi yma vmx [ dir ]
  • SET
    • SET/PRINT_LEVEL prtlev modnam
    • SET/DEBUG_LEVEL dbglev modnam
    • SET/EOF_ENDRUN onoff
    • SET/READ_MODULE modnam
    • SET/WRITE_MODULE modnam
• DASH Library Routines Reference
• References
• EXAMPLE.FOR: An example DASH_DECL subroutine
• Linking: Examples using Unix and VMS.
• Disk-based ntuples: example code
• MADLIB: A library of example modules
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