Initialization

  Check, and perhaps set, terminal device, plot device, and hardcopy device. Generally the defaults will be what you want, but it won't hurt to go through the motions:

$\gt\!\gt$ s-t-d (system default is xw for a Sun workstation such as IIWI)

$\gt\!\gt$ s-p-d t (set to plot on terminal screen)

$\gt\!\gt$ s-h-d (default is Postscript-landscape - shown as ps_l; but note alternatives)

The default state of SPECX is to look for spectra taken with the DAS; if that's what you want, there is no need to do anything to get it. However, if you have (old) data taken with the AOSC, say, a number of parameters have to be changed. See Section  for this and other additional information on setting up SPECX.