All of the components of the system are controlled by Oscail and Windows help is provided for all of the programs. The excellent text editor PFE and the very powerful graphics viewer IrfranView are incorporated into the system.
Most operations are just mouse clicks.
The Space Group Determination program is useful from an educational point of view as it lists the special reflections in a way which makes clear the number of reflections on which each condition depends. Barcharts of Space Group frequencies on the CCDC data base at the end of 2000 are provided. It also helps with analytical absorption correction. The visualisation and structure editing program can display and rotate up to 5,000 thermal ellipsoids in mono or stereo. The stereo can be red-green 3D or conventional.