RDTFILE

Name

rdtfile

Purpose

Reads the template file, tfile.dat, for a given night.

Description

This program reads in the first line of the tfile.dat for a specific
observing night and returns the information the file contains.

File I/o

Calling Sequence

rdtfile,object,tempobj,marker,fnstack,outsize,degree,error

Inputs

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

LOWELL - Flag, if set will require the tfile to be in a Lowell format
to successfully return information.
PATH - Optional string for the path to the tfile, default is the
current directory.

Outputs

object - the object for the image data
tempobj - object name of template for the image
marker - unique identifier
fnstack - name of image template
outsize - size of output difference image
degree - order of variation
error - Flag, set if there was a problem. This could be because the
file does not exist or that the night has been marked bad.
In any case, if this comes back set to 1 then you should
not proceed with this dataset.

Keyword Output Parameters

OBSCODE - Observatory code for the data. This is a guess based on
various heuristics and from the file format.
COMMENTS- any text after the first line

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedures

Reads in the tfile.dat from an observing night and returns the first
line of information.

Modification History

2012/01/24 Written by Erin R. George, Southwest Research Institute
2012/03/27, MWB, added support for NMSU data
2012/07/25, BLE, add COMMENTS keyword
2014/02/04, MWB, added PATH keyword and some clean up