RE: "Getting Ready To Get Ready"

["Glenn Gombert" <glenngombert@hotmail.com>]

Chris,

I will of course help with the control software once I get a Mark IV system 
here in Dayton... I can help in what ever way will best help the cause..

  Till then I am going to try and take Arne up on his offer of a set of IRAF 
scripts, and try out Michaels pipeline too that he is devleoped.

The Mark IV is a complex instrument that will require much of the summer and 
fall to get working correctly..but we should hopefully have 3-4 systems 
running with a version of your basic software Chirs..by sometime this Fall..

Best,
Glenn G.


>From: "Albertson, Chris" <CAlbertson@primeadvantage.com>
>To: 'Glenn Gombert' <glenngombert@hotmail.com>, tass@listserv.wwa.com
>Subject: RE: "Getting Ready To Get Ready"
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:42:44 -0700
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glenn Gombert [mailto:glenngombert@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:15 PM
>
><SNIP>
> >
> > 	Question for Chris..Will the Linux Mark IV control
> > program be operational
> > by then??..Say mid-summer or should I plan on using Tom's Quick Basic
> > program for a while to collect data ?? It would be helpful if
> > you could look
> > into your 'crystal ball' and see what you think might be best
> > to use for
> > getting the camera here in Dayton up and running with.
>
>
>I'm not really going to be able to do the whole job myself.
>I've got a lot done but anyone who can program in C, FORTRAN
>tcl/tk, Perl or whatever could do productive work.  If one
>person helps the rate of progress will double with two helping
>it will triple.
>
>What is done is the infrastructure and overall framework.
>What is remaining to be done is a set of smaller modules that
>"plug in" to the main driver.  Also still to be written are
>"nice" user interfaces.  I'm leaning now to using the web browser
>for the user interface but any technology could work as the
>real time driver talks over tcp/ip.
>
>A web based GUI is pretty cool when you think about a browser
>running on a wireless palm pilot or even a web enabled cell phone.
>I had always planned on being platform neutral.
>
>(OK, back to April 2001.) The current user interface is text based.
>You type "expose 90, image" at a prompt or you create a script
>file to automate it.   Well, OK I have a TCL interface too so you
>can write loops and if statments in a script file if you want.
>
> >
> > Mark IV is much
> > more complex than the Mark III and the data issues are also
> > more complex too
> > than those associated with the Mark III.
>
>Yes and no.  The Mk IV is more conventional.  One would think
>existing software would "just work" on our Mk IV images.
>
>

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