VLT-SW-2008 - RELEASE NOTES FOR INS COMMON SOFTWARE
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XXXX:
From: J. Knudstrup
Date: 2007-12-21
No Changes.
ICB:
From: D. Popovic
Date: 2007-12-05
No Changes.
BOSS:
From: E. Pozna
Date: 2007-09-24
VLTSW20070153 - Check format of OCS.CON.RELEASE if found in
configuration. Warning is issued if kw does not have standard
date format or not present in the configuration.
From the next release instrument with wrong
OCS.CON.RELEASE configuratiom will not startup.
VLTSW20060007 - Reply to ABORT command is sent after last reply from command STOP
sent to ICS arrived.
VLTSW20070071 - Send error reply to ABORT command if SETUP command is beeing executed.
(ABORT and SETUP commands cannot be executed simultaneously.)
VLTSW20070148/VLTSW20070134/VLTSW20060232 -
Improved ADDFITS command for general use of adding kws to extentions.
(bug fixing,handling of minus zero)
VLTSW20070118 - Improved error handling in SOS fits file handling.
VLTSW20060302/VLTSW20060339 - Improved error stack handling in bossArchiver.
VLTSW20060321 - Error handling during configuration of dictionary in bossINTERFACE.
VLTSW20070120 - OFF command handling improved, with checking
on state LOADED after command execution. Not
yet applicable for FIERA (VLTSW20070159) which currently still shuts
off instead of going to LOADED state.
VLTSW20070113 - Fixed wait command reply string.
Improved exposure table handling with updated refresh rate check (ExpoTable full error)
Archiver proces startup simplified (to adjust to changes on VLT2008)
Fixed memory leak in bossINTERFACE and bossExpoCtrl.
Back Incompatibities:
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See VLTSW20070153 above.
SLX/OSLX:
From: M. Kiekebusch
Date: 2007-09-24
VLTSW20070045 - [slx/oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT can now be used if INS_ROOT is not defined.
VLTSW20070114 - [slx]: oslxCONFIG::LoadConfigFile fixed coredumps if filename given
without extention.
VLTSW20070003 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT fixed problem with padded extention names.
VLTSW20070009 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT updated documentation of DeleteFitsKeyword.
VLTSW20070044 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_DICT_SUPPORT fixed auto adding keywords to include
comments when this information is available.
VLTSW20070121 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT::MoveToFirstBinaryTable fixed when only two HDU.
Back Incompatibities:
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VLTSW20070110 - [oslx]: warning of exceeding BTBL size floods the logmonitor.
oslxFITS_EXT class will not warn the user when initial binary
table size would be exceeded. Although this should not have an
effect in performance, it is up to the user to select the most
appropriate approach to reduce possible performance penalties.
CFITSIO:
From: M. Kiekebusch
Date: 2007-09-24
VLTSW20070133 - Integrated official CFITSIO tar file in the CFITSIO module.
TPL:
From: D. Popovic
Date: 2007-09-25
VLTSW20070124 - tplOBS: Addition of WaitAsync and RecvReply methods.
VLTSW20060110 - tplUIF: New method stayOnTop.
Back Incompatibities:
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VLTSW20060195 (reopen) - tplOBS: method Setup - Default expoId set back to 0 again.
New expoId requested with NEW_EXPO parameter, e.g.
Setup "-function ..." NEW_EXPO
STOO:
From: D. Popovic
Date: 2007-09-25
No Changes.
DXF:
From: D. Popovic
Date: 2007-09-25
WARNING
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LCU applications that use dxf should have their stack size
set to "normal size without dxf" + (4 * dxfMSG_TRANSFER_SIZE), e.g.
50000 + (4 * dxfMSG_TRANSFER_SIZE)
KNOWN BUG
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If compression is used and the compressed buffer happens to be longer than
msgBODYMAXLEN, the transfer will fail saying that wrong compression
method was performed.
If compression has to be used, use dxf ver. 2.52.1.4.
IST:
From: D. Popovic
Date: 2007-09-25
No Changes.
PCO:
From: D. Popovic
Date: 2007-09-25
No Changes.
INSC:
From: J. Knudstrup
Date: 2007-11-19
VLTSW20060241: inscDetSLcu - the -version option does not accept LAST
(fixed by alongino)
CTOO:
From: J. Knudstrup
Date: 2007-11-19
VLTSW20070104: ctooCONFIG: Read() methods
(fixed by rschmutz)
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