------------ LPIPE (LRIS Automated Pipeline) QUICK START GUIDE --------------

Setup information:

   For installation, see installation.txt.


Manual:
  
   See manual.txt (or the header of lpipe.pro) for full instructions
   on use of the pipeline


Quick start guide:

   Typical reduction of an LRIS night will proceed as follows:

   1. Create a reduction directory on a drive with plenty of free space.

   2. Create a subdirectory for the raw data with a name such as "raw/".

   3. Copy over the raw LRIS files you wish to reduce into the raw data
      directory.  (See the notes on live reduction below to simplify this
      task if reducing data on the fly.)

   4. Delete any known bad files (such as focus images, mira output, broken 
      shutter, wrong binning/windowing, arc lamps not warm, stuck grating, 
      etc.) from the raw data directory.  This step is optional; most bad
      files are recognized and ignored by the pipeline.

   5. Start IDL by typing "idl".

   6. Run the pipeline at the IDL prompt as follows: 
        IDL>   lpipe, data='raw/'

   7. Wait patiently for the results.  Final reduced spectra will be output as
        ascii tables to the current directory as lris[name].spec .  Reduced 
        images will appear as lris[b|r][name]_[filter].fits.  Intermediate data
        products are written to imredux/ and spredux*/.

   8. To inspect or validate output data products, use the validation tool:
        IDL>   lrisvalidate

   9. If you need to change the target of an extraction, use the aperture tool:
        IDL>   lrisapertures


