A tool for generating parameter blocks (aka macro commands). The Mac version is on the lmsal net at: /net/shine/Users/shine/fpp/pbdir/pb The program name is pb for "parameter block". This code was derived from the comgui program that we used for generating macro commands for ground testing but is restricted to generating just the 8 byte parameter block portion of the 41 byte macro commands. The rest will be added by other tools or by the MDP at run time. However, the user can provided "suggested" compression information. The code is designed to be run using the kokuten directory for observational components. There are 2 environmental variables used that can override the builtin defaults and some command line options to force reading (and writing) specific files. For example: pb -fg fgmc.idx -sp spmc.idx causes files name fgmc.idx from the default directory to be used. My tcsh definitions for the environmentals are: setenv FPP_MACROS /net/solserv/home/fpptc/cmd/ setenv FPP_XMLTOP /net/kokuten//archive/ops/ The first is used only to read in "old" style macro commands. The tools can read and convert these. The FPP_XMLTOP is the root for a tree of directories with observingTables/FG and observingTables/SP branches at the next level. Neal has a listing of the directories. This has not yet been built on a Linux machine and might have a few endian issues. Please just run on Mac's for now either locally or via ssh -X. recent mods: 5/31/2006 added a forced save to allow overwrites, this is in the file menu changed the compression options to reflect the current MDP load, this was probably changed years ago but I hadn't noticed the idx list comes up in a widget and MC's can be loaded from this list, new MC's are appended to the idx file