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Using the DAS

• Access to the DAS: which terminals?
• Starting up the system
• Entering and queuing DAS commands
• Setting the image format
  • Setting up CCDs
  • Setting up the IPCS
• Making exposures
  • Simple exposures
• Multiple sequential exposures
• Quick-look and instrument set-up
• Pausing and stopping exposures
• Interactive exposures
• Protecting the IPCS - shutter discipline.
• The observing log
• The mimic
• ICL procedures and the DAS
• Writing the disk files to tape