NAME

BRCALDB -- Browse a Caldb installation


USAGE

brcaldb milist


DESCRIPTION

This task is an interactive interface to the Calibration Database. It allows the user to repetatively filter a list of datasets based on their calibration characteristics and also provides the capablility of copying datasets from the database to a user-specified directory.

Before using this task, the 'CALDB' and 'CALDBCONFIG' environment variables (logicals) must be set. See the Caldb User's Guide for details.

After executing the task, the user is shown a list of missions and instruments. The list displays those missions and instruments for which the Database contains data holdings. Immediately after this list is displayed the user is prompted to select those missions and instruments which he or she wishes to browse. The response to this prompt can contain multiple missions and instruments, but each mission/instrument set should be separated by a comma. For example, if the user wished to browse ASCA's GIS2 calibration datasets and ROSAT's HRI calibration datasets, he or she would enter

asca gis2, rosat hri

After the appropriate mission and instrument data are loaded into memory, the user is free to enter any valid brcaldb command. The commands are described in the command-line help. From within brcaldb, type "help" for more information.


PARAMETERS

(banner = yes) [boolean]
Toggles the display of available missions and instruments on/off.

milist [string]
List of missions and instruments to load. Format should be like: mission1 inst inst ..., mission2 inst inst ..., ...

(reprompt = yes) [boolean]
If reprompt is false and an error is found in the milist parameter, the user will not be reprompted for the milist parameter. If true, the user will be asked to reenter the milist string.

(wrap = yes) [boolean]
If true, brcaldb will format the display to fit on an 80 column wide screen. Otherwise, each entry displayed will appear on one line.


EXAMPLES

1. Run brcaldb as if it were being executed from a script. Load ASCA GIS2 entries, and execute the commands given in the cmd.xco file.

example% brcaldb banner=no milist="asca gis2" reprompt=no <cmd.xco


BUGS

Apparently segfaults when using remote Caldb access


PRIMARY AUTHOR

Ian M George