G.3.2 Software

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G.3.2 Software

  1. Login onto a non-isass0 machine (isass1-4).

  2. Enter IDL. Make sure no other IDL window jobs are running on the same workstation. If there are two jobs, the color table could be corrupted.

  3. Then enter one of the following:

IDL> go_nvs5,/sfd ; Standard weekly movie making  IDL> go_nvs5,/sfd,/nosfw ; Standard weekly movie makingIDL> go_nvs5,/help ; For on-line documentationIDL> go_nvs5,/genx ; to use a GENX type file as the inputThe temporary NVS files will be written to your home directory. Use the nvsdirfn='/1p/user/nvs0' switch to redirect to another location.

For the SFD option, the default increment is 10 (process 10 images at a time). This is good if no one else is using the workstation at the same time. If the /sfd switch is given, go_nvs5 will prompt the user with the list of files which are in the /yd1/sfd directory.

For the GENX option, the array will not be autoscaled (it should be a byte type). If the number of images in the genx file is large, IDL may run out of core. In that case, try increment=1. The program will prompt the user for the GENX filename.

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