WHT Telescope Control System

Release Notes for Version W20


TCS-WHTREL-20

Issue: 0.2 2003-09-02


Author: M P Fisher

tcsman@ing.iac.es

1. Summary

This document summarises the changes made to the latest version in the W19 release tree of the WHT Telescope Control System, W19-0-0, to produce the release tree W20.

2. Release History

Version Date Description Author(s)
W9-0-0 26-Sep-1999 First version built with VMS 7.1 MPF
W10-1-0 22-Oct-1999 New commands CLONE & GOMOON; updated IERS params & GHRIL IR derot model RPC/MPF
W12-0-6 17-Mar-2000 Display instrument rotator limits, add INGRID support RPC
W14-1-4 2-Aug-2000 New command SLOWOFF, write sky PA not mount PA in headers, update GHRIL IR derot corrections RPC
W14-1-6 21-Aug-2000 Add support for NAOMI autoguider RPC
W14-1-7 1-Sep-2000 Encoder & autoguider logs are stored on separate disk RPC
W14-1-8 15-Sep-2000 Default to DRAMA comms RPC
W14-1-10 6-Nov-2000 FOCUS & DOME commands always send completion status to DRAMA RPC
W14-1-11 18-Nov-2000 TELD timeout values changed for INGRID compatibility RPC
W14-1-14 5-Jan-2001 New Cass & GHRIL pointing models, IERS update RPC
W15-0-0 6-Mar-2001 Revert to correct version of time-to-limits code MPF
W15-1-0 29-Mar-2001 Fix problem with RA, Dec having half true value in headers MPF
W15-1-1 28-Apr-2001 Revert to old Cass & GHRIL pointing models MPF
W16-0-0 4-Jun-2001 New Cass & GHRIL pointing models, improved SLOWOFF command, add TWEAK as a DRAMA action MPF
W16-0-1 12-Jul-2001 New position of azimuth zeroset target MPF
W16-1-0 12-Oct-2001 Same as W16-0-1, but using DRAMA v1.3 MPF
W17-1-0 1-Sep-2001 Simultaneous use of TCS from DECnet & DRAMA, log TELD messages, uses DRAMA v1.3 MPF
W17-2-0 24-Oct-2001 Start TELD from menu, log focus encoder, ICL command completion fixed MPF
W17-4-0 30-Oct-2001 Negative longitude for headers, fix problems with data blocks sent to dtasks MPF
W17-5-0 15-Jul-2002 Fixed memory leak RR/MPF
W17-5-1 3-Jan-2003 Add support for acquisition TV as AF2 autoguider MPF
W18-0-0 22-Jan-2003 New LOG command, fix rotator glitch at azimuth reversal, focus-temp correction at Prime MPF
W18-0-4 17-Feb-2003 Add LIRIS values MPF/FJG
W19-0-0 9-Mar-2003 New logging process logs to 30 minute ring file, focus data logged continuously. MPF
W20-0-1 14-Apr-2003 Configure NAOMI in GRACE, replacing UES. FJG
W20-1-0 26-May-2003 Encoder logging bug fixes. MPF
W20-1-3 10-Jul-2003 New GRACE pointing model. MPF
W20-1-4 22-Aug-2003 Uses new SDSU autoguider for INTEGRAL. MPF

3. Hardware and Firmware Modifications

None

4. Deliverables and Installation

5. Reasons for release

W20-0-1

New features

Defects fixed

W20-1-0

New features

Defects fixed

W20-1-3

New features

Defects fixed

W20-1-4

New features

Defects fixed

6. Known problems and restrictions

Defect reports outstanding

Other problems

7. Compatibility

8. Software changes

W20-0-1

W20-0-1 comprises the following subsystem versions; any changes made to a subsystem since W19-0-0 are listed.

ALTAZLIB v2-00

BUILD v1-00

CAMACDB v0-1

DISPLAY v2-00

GSEXAM v0-1

INCLIB v5-01

MONITOR v1-00

MSG v0-7

NETSERVER v0-6

OUTLOG v0-01

POINT v0-5

RUN v1-03

SHARE v0-3

SYNC v4-00

SYSCOMP v1-01

TCSLIB v1-02

TELD v5-03

TV v1-02

USER v4-07

WHT v2-02

WHTINIT v2-13

W20-1-0

W20-1-0 is the same as W20-0-1 apart from changes to the following subsystems.

OUTLOG v0-03

WHTINIT v2-14

W20-1-3

W20-1-3 is the same as W20-1-0 apart from changes to the following subsystems.

WHTINIT v2-17

W20-1-4

W20-1-4 is the same as W20-1-3 apart from changes to the following subsystems.

WHTINIT v2-18