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NCCS Documentation Index

M J Gaylard, J Quick, J Jonas, B Woermann, S Buchner

2002/02/06

This index to NCCS documentation is intended to provide links to all useful documentation about the New Control Computer System at HartRAO. It includes references and links to off-site documentation. **NOTE** for local users: to get all the local links to work properly, one must cd /usr/local/src/nccs/doc and then run netscape from that directory: netscape index.html &

1. Introduction

2. Using the NCCS

3. NCCS Design

3.1 Current Design documents
3.2 Historical design documents

4. NCCS Progress

5. NCCS programming and operations

5.1 NCCS Operations
5.2 Test programs
5.3 HartRAO Station Library
5.4 Device control via Device Servers
5.5 Hardware control using the Serial Digital Input Output System (SDIO)
5.6 Antenna control using STEER
5.7 Plotting data
5.8 Spectroscopy using the AT Multibeam Correlator

6. Utility Programs

7. Externally sourced software and standards used by the NCCS

7.1 C Programming Language
7.2 Programming on Unix and Unix-like systems
7.3 Debian Linux
7.4 Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
7.5 PGPLOT graphics library
7.6 SLALIB coordinate library
7.7 Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML)
7.8 TK/Tcl

8. Other Telescope Control Systems

8.1 NRAO GBT
8.2 OVRO
8.3 HET
8.4 ATNF ATOMS

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