RE: Routine Operation

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

Hey Tom,

If you throw in "use warnings;" in your script, you will get a good warning
message about this problem (and many others).  You might want to look at
"use strict;" also, but this might be painful, depending on how you've
written your program.

Cheers,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: January 24, 2003 11:31 AM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Routine Operation
> 
> 
> I have been running TOM1 routinely on every clear night.  
> (Not many this 
> time of year.)  Last night it was cold enough that the V 
> shutter stuck.  It 
> is the old design and I have a fix, so Saturday we will take 
> the camera off 
> and rebuild the shutter to the new design.
> 
> I have been quiet because I am writing software.  A bad sign. 
>  You all 
> should not let me write software.  I am learning a few of the 
> ways that 
> Perl can get you so that it gives very bad clues as to what 
> it wrong.  For 
> example using = instead of == gives strange error messages 
> far removed from 
> the source of the problem.  So it goes.  But I have almost 
> implemented my 
> scheme.  Then we shall see what the results are when I 
> process images with 
> various problems.
> 
> I want to be to turn on and run through the night if it looks 
> like there 
> will be any clear sky (and no precipitation).  The goal is to have 
> automatic processing of images with code that throws out 
> images that are 
> bad and keeps images that are good with few errors in either 
> direction.  We 
> shall see.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
>