... The SF does not contain all the information required to process the ODF with the SAS. odfingest extends the SF with data extracted from the instrument housekeeping data files and the calibration database. It creates a new summary file: the SAS ODF Summary File (SOSF). ... The user need not have write access to the ODF directory. odfingest uses the parameter outdir to learn where to write the SOSF. ... Alternatively, the name of the SOSF can be passed to odfingest with the parameter summaryfile . ...

... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. The Overview page is the front page of this API document and provides a list of all packages with a summary for each. ... Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ...

... The tasks in STSDAS are far too numerous and complicated to describe comprehensively in this volume. ... You can refer to online help or the STSDAS User's Guid e for details on how to use these tasks. Some useful online help commands are: . ... Note that IRAF version 2.11 must be installed on your system in order for you to use STSDAS 2.0 and TABLES version 2.0. ... images : This package includes general tasks for copying ( imcopy ), moving ( imrename ), and deleting ( imdelete ) image files. ...

... So the data structure on a real tape can be completely simulated on disk, as is shown below: Structure on tape Structure on disk tape.descriptor BLOCK of fb11 bytes "@file000001.mt" "fb11" BLOCK of fb12 bytes "fb12" .. BLOCK of fb1n bytes "fb1n" TAPE MARK "0" BLOCK of fb21 bytes "@file000002.mt" "fb21" .. ... Whenever a disktape is opened with MTOPEN, it will check whether the tape descriptor file exists. ... A tape device, be it a tapeunit or a disk file, is opened with function MTOPEN. ...