This page will lead you through several canned examples of what each of the VO-CLI tools can do. The default tool show will perform an actual query and access of real VO data using one of the Submit buttons to the left to run a specific example. To tour a different tool, select an alternative blue panel from the stack.

Each example will print some additional commentary to explain what is happening as well as the actual command being executed (in bold type). The response is the output of that command run in real-time, the response is NOT a static result and is meant to show the expected processing time for executing that task on your desktop machine with a typical network connection.

Select an option on the left to begin ....