Control Program Configuration Commands.

When the control program is started it executes a configuration script called:

 $TCS_DIR/cbicontrol.init

Where TCS_DIR is an environment variable defined by the caller's shell. This script will be rejected if it contains any commands that require communication to have been established with the real-time CPU. The commands that were designed with this script in mind are listed in the contents page under the title "Control Program Configuration Commands".

The following is an example of a control-program configuration script.

 # This schedule is executed by cbicontrol on its startup.
 # Commands that need a connection to the control system will not
 # succeed.

 print "Running telcontrol startup script.\n"

 # Load the source catalog.

 catalog ~mcs/ovro/TCS/ephem/source.cat

 # Load the ephemeris of UT1-UTC.

 ut1utc ~mcs/ovro/TCS/ephem/ut1utc.ephem

 # Specify the location of the 40m telescope.

 site -118:16:56.9, 37:13:52.9, 1197

 # Set the interval between saving 1-second archive frames.

 archive interval=1

 # Arrange to place archive files in /scr/mcs/arc

 archive dir=/scr/mcs/arc

 # Arrange to place 

 logdir /scr/mcs/arc

 # Open archive and log files.

 open archive
 open log

 print "The startup script completed.\n"

Martin Shepherd (26-Jun-2010)