Good news on the reduction front

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

  Last night, just before I left the office, I popped
Data Disk 18b into the CD-Rom drive.  When I got home,
I finished some important business (watching the season
finale of "Buffy"), then dialed into my computer at work.
I edited one file from the distribution kit --
changing the input_dir and output_dir values in the
"setup.param" file -- and then started the pipeline
cranking away.  Since I was at home, I couldn't watch
everything as it ran, so I just logged off and went to 
sleep.

  Lo and behold, this morning, when I came into work, I found
that the entire night had run through the pipeline without
an (obvious) error: the photometric solution for the 
entire night was:
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
V=V,(V-I)  N   1150  a  -8.684  0.012  b  -0.236  0.010   RMS  0.119 
I=I,(I-V)  N   1150  a  -8.283  0.008  b   0.063  0.007   RMS  0.102 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  Now, of course, I need to look at the diagnostics and the 
corrected data frames to verify that clouds weren't a problem,
etc., but I am happy to see that the software can digest 
an entire night without crashing.  A good sign.

  On the other hand, Michael Sallman just filed the first bug
report based on the latest distribution of the pipeline, so 
it's not all beer and skittles.  

                                        Michael Richmond