Chapter 1. afcom

Table of Contents
Introduction
Building and Running afcom
afcom - Software Overview
afcom - Version Information
afcom - Reference Manual
The compatibility module: compat.tcl - Reference Manual
The IR Interface module: afir.tcl - Reference Manual
afdata - Command Reference Manual
afsdsu - Command Reference Manual
afutil - Command Reference Manual
Hints on running an xpa display server
User defined FITS headers and other buffer manipulation

Introduction

This document is a user's and programmer's guide to afcom, a program for reading out IR arrays.

A PostScript version of this document is available as afcom.ps (or compressed using gzip: afcom.ps.gz). A rtf version of this document (compatible with many word processors) is available as afcom.rtf. An acrobat (pdf) version of this document is available as afcom.pdf.

License and Disclaimer

afcom is Copyright 1999-2003 University of Hawaii.

Caution

This software is released as is. There is no warranty provided or implied. The user assumes full responsibility for using this system. This includes any damage which may occur, either through misuse of the software or through software defects.

This release of afcom is not intended for general distribution, and is not to be redistributed.

This should not be considered a released product. It is a set of tools that we are using to test our IR detectors.

Contact Information

This document and afcom were written by Hubert Yamada (Home page http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/, e-mail yamada@ifa.hawaii.edu) for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.

The most recent version of this document may be found at http://ccd.ifa.hawaii.edu/afcom/