Command names

Due to its long history, CLASS77 command name were sometimes awkward, e.g. the GAUSS command which was launching a fit even though the fitting function was not Gaussian! We made the minimum number of changed to avoid disturbing too much long standing habits of CLASS users. We are also furnishing a CLASS procedure named old-command-names.class which aliases new and old names through the use of GILDAS symbols. This is distributed for maximum backward compatibility, e.g. to enable use of CLASS77 within CLASS90 (this is not foolproof though). However, it is clear that old command names are obsolete and we advise users against the use of the aliases. In particular, users' new procedures should use new command names. Table  displays an exhaustive list of correspondence between old and new names. The fit-related commands have been gathered into a separate language named FIT. The GAUSS and FIT commands have been replaced by the more explicit MINIMIZE and VISUALIZE names. For logical reasons, SUM has been replaced by the AVERAGE. Due to the new way of dealing with OTF data, the RECORD command is now obsolete and will disappear soon. The GRID command is also obsolete as its functionalities have been redistributed and extended in the TABLE and XY_MAP commands (cf. section ). Finally, the CFITS language has been replaced by a single LAS\FITS command. Indeed, most of the CFITS commands were customized for tapes which are an obsolescent storage medium.

Table: Correspondence between command names in CLASS77 and CLASS90.

Old names	New names
ANALYSE\GRID	Obsolete (replaced by ANALYSE\TABLE and MAP\XY_MAP)
ANALYSE\DISPLAY	FIT\DISPLAY
ANALYSE\FIT	FIT\VISUALIZE
ANALYSE\GAUSS	FIT\MINIMIZE
ANALYSE\ITERATE	FIT\ITERATE
ANALYSE\KEEP	FIT\KEEP
ANALYSE\LINES	FIT\LINES
ANALYSE\METHOD	FIT\METHOD
ANALYSE\RESIDUAL	FIT\RESIDUAL
LAS\SUM	LAS\AVERAGE
LAS\RECORD	Obsolete (not useful anymore)