1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 PURPOSE 1

1.2 SCOPE 1

1.3 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS 1

1.4 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 1

1.5 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 1

1.6 GLOSSARY 2

1.7 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 2

2 USER'S GUIDE 5

2.1 OVERVIEW 5

2.2 STARTING BOB UP 5

2.3 CONFIGURING BOB 7

2.4 BOB'S PREFERENCES 10

2.5 LOADING AND SAVING OB-DESCRIPTIONS 11

2.6 RUNNING AN OB 11

2.7 RULES, TIPS AND TRICKS FOR TEMPLATE SCRIPTS 13

2.7.1 Template calling procedure 13

2.7.2 Communication and logging 14

2.7.3 Aborting a running template script 16

2.7.4 Return values 16

2.7.5 Library scripts 16

2.7.6 Search paths 17

2.8 SIMULATION 18

2.8.1 Internal simulation 18

2.8.2 External simulation 18

2.9 STATUS RETURNED 19

2.9.1 Observation Block Events 19

2.9.2 Template Events 19

2.10 ENGINEERING INTERFACE 19

2.11 BOBWISH 21

2.12 MOBS AND GENERIC TEMPLATES 22

2.12.1 What MOBS and Generic Templates are 22

2.12.2 The MOBS Engineering Interface Editor 23

2.12.3 The Generic Template Script 25

2.12.4 An example acquisition template script for MOBS 25

2.13 TECHNICAL TEMPLATES 26

2.14 PARAMFILE KEYWORDS 28

3 TROUBLESHOOTING 29

3.1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 29

3.1.1 Installation 29

3.1.2 Start-up 29

3.1.3 Template scripts 29

3.1.4 Template signature files 30

3.1.5 Sounds 30

3.1.6 FITS header information 31

3.1.7 Operational states 31

3.1.8 Engineering mode 31

4 REFERENCE 33

4.1 ERROR MESSAGES 33

4.1.1 OB/Template creation 33

4.1.2 OB/Template editing 40

4.1.3 OB execution 40

4.1.4 Selecting/Loading of OBs or .obd files 43

4.1.5 Various 44

4.2 MANPAGES 46

5 INDEX 53

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