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This manual replaces the earlier edition of the archive PRIMER (La Palma
Technical Note No. 69), and partly superseeds the archive User's
Guide (ING User Manual No. XIX). The emphasis of this user manual is
completely and exclusively on queries of the observations catalogue both
on-line, via a captive account at RGO, or off-line, via the
archive mailserver. Additional functions of the query software, such
as queries of the archive index and other modes of access, are outside the
of this manual scope, and are not
included here; they are described in the already mentioned earlier ING
User Manual No. XIX (see also page 
).
This User Manual is devided into three parts. Part I,
sections to , gives an
astronomical description of the archive contents.
Part II, sections to ,
has the character of a `Primer' with a general introduction to the query
software, and describes how to on-line query the archive catalogue via
the captive account and the usage of the archive mailserver.
Part III, section to ,
deals with the command language employed by the query software, and includes a
detailed description of individual commands and qualifiers.