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Next: MIDAS And the Up: Monitor and Command Previous: Monitor and Command . ... the MIDAS working directory for internal files and (optionally) private procedures: . ... On a Unix system use the option -m < mid_work > to change the default working directory, and -p or -P to run MIDAS in parallel mode   when you start MIDAS via the command inmidas (see below). ... In NOPARALLEL mode all intermediate MIDAS files in the MIDAS startup directory are deleted when starting MIDAS via inmidas. ...

... Statistic files are managed using file generation sets and scripts in the ./scripts directory of this distribution. ... Each valid update appends a line of the following form to the current element of a file generation set named peerstats : . ... This keyword allows the (otherwise constant) filegen filename prefix to be modified for file generation sets, which is useful for handling statistics logs. filegen name [ file filename ] [ type typename ] [ flag flagval ] [ link | ...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...

The run progress pages document the execution of Service Mode and Visitor Mode observing runs carried out at the Paranal Observatory. A summary of the run's characteristics is given, as well as a time-stamped list of all Observation Blocks (OB) that were executed until now. ... If reduced data for the given run exist, those are also reported in both the OB Summary table and in the details. ... Reduced : information shown only if pipeline-processed reduced data exist for the OB . ... OB ID . ...

... Class . ... public class Macro_Runner . ... Opens and runs a macro file. ... run (java.lang.String name) . Opens and runs the specified macro file on the current thread. java.lang.String . ... Opens and runs the specified macro on the current thread. java.lang.String . ... The file is assumed to be in the macros folder unless name is a full path. ".txt" is added if name does not have an extension. public java.lang.String runMacro (java.lang.String macro, java.lang.String arg) . ...

... ALMA . ... Technical notes . ... ATM and AATM . What is ATM? ... Current version: V0.1 . ... ATM is a library of routines for modelling transmission of cm/mm/sub-mm wavelength radiation through the Earths atmosphere. ... AATM is a re-packaging of the version of ATM as used by the ALMA online calibration software "TelCal". ... Please note this is a BETA version . ... NEWS file extract: Version 0.08 ------------ UPSTREAM TRACKING: Synchronised with the current version of ATM in the ALMA CVS Trunk. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelSkyCultureMgr Class Reference . Manage sky cultures for stellarium. ... QString  . getCurrentSkyCultureEnglishName () const . Get the current sky culture English name. ... Get the current sky culture translated name. ... Get the current sky culture ID. ... Set the current sky culture from the ID. ... Get a list of sky culture names in the current language. ... Get a list of sky culture IDs. void StelSkyCultureMgr::init . ... const QString &  . ...

... Abstract Retrieve or set the name of the current output device for error messages. Required_Reading ERROR . ... GET" means, "set device equal to the name of the current error output device" "SET" means, "set the name of the current error output device equal to the value of device." lenout the string size of output 'device' when op equals "GET." ... Set the error output device to the file SPUD.DAT: ./ errdev_c ( "SET", lenout, "SPUD.DAT" ); . ... Index_Entries get/set error output device name . ...

... Here we address the issue of how to determine what calibration files make up the current calibration file for a given observation time. Each calibration file has a validity start date and a validity end date. ... In the simplest case (no end of validity date), a new version of the calibration file -- call it , will have and (figure 1 ). ... Within this scheme, at any time the applicable issue of the calibration file is obtained by selecting among all files the one with the higher issue number. ...

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... 19.09.2001 . ... Credit: Lockheed Martin Missiles Space Explanation: NASA is preparing to launch its next Great Observatory in 2002, but it does not yet have a proper name. ... Currently referred to only as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), NASA seeks to add something more significant. Previously, NASA named its Great Observatories for scientists of the recent past, including the Hubble Space Telescope , the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Chandra X-ray Observatory . ...

You can use the echo command to display the value of an environment variable. ... This displays the value of the environment variable PATH. ... The $ sign is a shell metacharacter that uses the value of the variable instead of its name. ... For the Bourne shell use the command set to display the value of environment variables. For the C and TC shell use the command printenv or env to display the value of environment variables and the command set to display the value of local shell variables. ...

This describes the exposure window used by each instrument (the graphical interface for the hub's expose command). ... To open the expose window for a given instrument, bring up that instrument's main window, then press the Expose... button along the bottom. ... The top panel shows the status of the current exposure sequence (regardless of who started it). ... File: the file name for the current exposure, or the most recent exposure if not exposing. ... Download: exposure download preferences. ...

... While Sfit accepts input from "stdio", it is more natural to save/edit commands in a file (eg "solve_input.sfit") and run the code simply by entering > Sfit solve_input.sfit [linelist] . ... The model grid (3.4MB) produced by Example 1 and a selection of input spectra ( f008 f036 f068 f304 f354 ), together with SFIT output files are also given in this folder . ... The model grid (2.8MB) produced by Example 3 and an input spectrum together with SFIT output files are also given in this folder . ...

The following options are available via the file menu: . Display File Browser . ... XDir then can be used to send image file names to SAOtng for display. ... Regardless of the original image file format, SAOtng maintains a FITS image of the displayed image section in its memory. ... Pressing carriage return in the text window or clicking the OK button will cause SAOtng to store the current display frame in GIF format. ... Re-extract an image section from the current image file and re-display it. ...

Orbital data : INTERBALL AZ GSE and GSM cartesian coordinates, GSE cartesian velocity (once per 10 minutes). ... Magnetic field data from IMAP experiment. Magnetic fileld absolute value and magnetic field index (the difference between absolute value and model value), status flag. ... Counts of H+ and O+ ions are accumulated during one spin period by detectors D6 (antisunward looking), D8 (spin plane), D10 (sunward looking) of TRICS2 subsystem (1.0-30 keV). ... TRICS1, TRICS2, TRICS3 subsystems: . ...

trackingtime- compute LST rise, transit, and set times for sources as well as time in the keyhole . trackingtime {--help --lim --sort --usecalib --usepsr --usex102 --usefluxgt1 --zamax=zamax --zamin=zamin --exclnorise} srcfile srcfile name of cima source file to process. ... exclnorise exclude sources that never rise. trackingtime is a shell script that calls idl routines to process the srcfile and output the lst rise, transit, and set times for each source in the file. ... Source Rises | ...

... A file upload element on an HTML form. ... JavaScript 1.1: added type property . ... The HTML INPUT tag, with "file" as the value of the TYPE attribute. For a given form, the JavaScript runtime engine creates appropriate FileUpload objects and puts these objects in the elements array of the corresponding Form object. ... form . ... For all FileUpload objects, the value of the type property is "file" . ... Use the value property to obtain the file name that the user typed into a FileUpload object. ...