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An automatic procedure has been developed for indexing reflections on oscillation photographs produced by crystals with very large unit cells (cell dimensions larger than about 100 Å). The procedure works in a similar fashion to the auto-indexing used in four-circle diffractometry. Features include ab initio cell parameter and orientation matrix determination, reduced cell calculation and transformation of the reduced cell to one with higher symmetry.