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MKIII OPERATOR’S MANUAL

BREWER COMMANDS

4.1

RESERVED KEYS: HOME, DEL, CTRL+BREAK, F KEYS

HOME

This key can be pressed to terminate an observation or operation prematurely. It should only
be used if the message " press HOME key to abort " is displayed on the screen.
There may be a delay between the time when the DEL key is pressed, and the Main Menu
appears, as some aborted activities take longer to terminate.

DEL

This key is not normally used for routine work. It can be used in special situations to bypass
the five-minute warm-up period of the mercury or standard lamps, or to terminate some
operations, such as the zeroing of the Azimuth Tracker if no tracker is present.
There may be a delay between the time when the DEL key is presses, and the Main Menu
appears as some activity takes longer to abort.

Ctrl+Break

This combination temporarily halts the Brewer Program so that the GW-BASIC operating
system may be accessed.

After the CTRL+Break keys have been pressed,

Break in xxxxx

will be seen, there will be full access not only to all GW-BASIC commands, but also to the
Brewer Program itself.

There are a number of ways to restart the Brewer program following a CTRL+Break:

•

instruct the program to continue by typing “CONTINUE”.

•

type “SYSTEM” to abort completely from GWBASIC and re-initiate the Brewer
operation by one of the traditional methods.

The menu displays the MU (air-mass) and ZA (solar zenith-angle) which will be continuously
updated during the course of the day, as well as the GMT, date, instrument number, location
and data bytes available. Pressing the Return key without a command entry causes the Main
Menu to reappear.

To issue a command, the appropriate character code is typed, followed by the Enter key.

F Keys

The F keys are configured to automatically write commonly used commands or sets of
commands. The F keys can be used at the Brewer command prompt. The enter key must be
pressed to start the command string.

F Key

Command Sequence

HGSL

DSZS2

HGZC2

HGSLDSZSDS

F10

DTRSHGSL

4. BREWER COMMANDS