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There is a race going on.



I feel like I should be calling it play by play.  I have spent the day 
downloading files sent by Andrew Bennett and Rob Creager.  I have lost 
track, but there have been several from Andrew and a half dozen from 
Rob.  We are getting closer and closer to getting something that reads the 
Memory card and writes files in memory using the QBasic SHELL command.

Rob is using CFITSIO and I think Andrew is using his own code.  Both are 
writing files that have headers that can be read by a .fts reader (Image 
Scientist).  I think Andrew is ahead as I can see cosmic rays in his 
data.  I think one more byte swap will do it.  Rob is still reading 
garbage, but it is at least variable garbage now, earlier in the day it was 
constant.

This is sort of fun.  They patch, and I test and send back symptoms.  It 
would no doubt be faster if they were sitting here with my setup, but they 
are not.  It looks like it will be much faster than traveling here to 
debug, if we had time and if we could afford the travel expense.

Tom Droege