A data acquisition and control program has been developed for soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism based on LabVIEW 5.1. The friendly interface of the program makes user to access it quickly and easily. The graphic panel of the program consists of three functional areas of setting up the status of the instruments

inputting the initial parameters of the experiment and plotting the experimental data. The experimental data are also stored as ASCIIfiles which can be processed by other programs.