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                          General Information
			 (J.Pety, 12-oct-2004)

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Contact and availability
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GILDAS home page: 

  http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS

The most recent GILDAS version is available in the distribution section of
this web page.

Introduction
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GILDAS is a collection of state-of-the-art softwares oriented toward
(sub-)millimeter radioastronomical applications (either single-dish or
interferometer). It is daily used to reduce all data acquired with the IRAM
30M telescope and Plateau de Bure Interferometer PDBI (except VLBI
observations). GILDAS is easily extensible. GILDAS is written in
Fortran-90, with a few parts in C/C++ (mainly keyboard interaction,
plotting, widgets).

Other information
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Many more information may be found in:

  * AUTHORS               List of historical developpers and current maintainers
  * FAQ                   Frequently Asked Questions
  * INSTALL               Basics installation guidelines
  * PROBLEMS              Known problems (i.e. not yet corrected)
  * SYSTEM                The system you are compiling on (i.e. MACHINE-OS-COMPILER)
  * VERSION               Version you are looking at
  * WISHES                Improvment that may or may not happened
  * NEWS                  Last major changes commented
  * TAGS-Introduction     Introduction to an easy way to navigate through the sources
  * CVS-User-Reference    CVS reference card for standard user
  * Filename-Conventions  Description of standard about source filename
  * Tree-Structure        Description of the tree structure

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