QSAS Version 3.1.0
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QSAS should run out-of-the-box on most Windows platforms, depending on where the location of the un-packed binary distribution..

Move the QSAS31 directory to your preferred location and edit the
script QSAS31/bin/QSAS.bat to reflect this location. If you
place QSAS31 inside a directory C:/Program Files/QSAS/ then the script does not need editing.

Double click on the script QSAS.bat will launch QSAS. If you run into problems, open a cmd window, cd to the QSAS bin directory, and type QSAS to launch the batch script and see any run-time error messages. These are almost always related to incorrect PATH setups which can be corrected by editing QSAS.bat

QSAS ships with a sample session under File->Restore Session... This will get you started. There is a substantial amount of context-sensitive information in the Help pages, accessible from the Help Menu at the top of the QSAS Main Window (which holds the QSAS Working List), and from the top of most QSAS windows.

For further information, look at the following files in this directory:

doc/README_Build_Windows.txt		Source installation and build instructions 
COPYING     	            		Copyright notice. Read this!

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QSAS is a software package which provides a flexible, extendable environment for the selection, manipulation, and display of space physics data.

QSAS is written in C/C++ and is compiled for Linux, Windows and MacOS.

QSAS uses the free third party package PLplot as its plot engine.

The new version is available via the WWW at the following address:

   http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/csc-web/csc.html

Complete documentation for QSAS is available at

    http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/csc-web/QSAS/QSAShelp/QSAS_help_index.html

Please email csc-support-dl@imperial.ac.uk each time you download QSAS, stating which version, so that we can keep users informed of changes and monitor levels of interest. QSAS is provided free under GPL public licence, see COPYING file.

The Windows version of QSAS is delivered together with standard compiled Qt libraries, thanks to exception 4-a of GPL_EXCEPTION_ADDENDUM.TXT provided by Nokia. You can get the original source on http://trolltech.com/downloads/opensource/appdev/windows-cpp
