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Control system tasks

The control system contains the following tasks:

In addition, three tasks run as part of the startup procedure but are not normally resident:

The INPSCF task deals with the setting of constants used by the telescope control software, in particular those which must be updated regularly, such as coefficients for the pointing model. A ``guide to the use of INPSCF'' is given in La Palma Technical Note 39 (Laing & Wood, 1986).

A number of tasks may run alongside the control system. These are:



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