1 INTRODUCTION 9 1.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE 9 1.2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS 9 1.3 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 9 1.4 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 10 1.5 GLOSSARY 10 1.6 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 11 2 USER MANUAL 13 2.1 THE TCS INTERFACE 13 2.2 COMMANDS 14 2.2.1 Sending commands to TIF processes 17 2.2.2 Procedures 17 2.3 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE 18 2.3.1 Data Query Library 18 2.3.2 FITS header data 23 2.3.3 Event Configuration Library 25 2.3.4 Using the TCS Database and Event Interface Library 26 2.3.5 M2 Communication Library 27 2.4 ONLINE DATABASE ACCESS CLASSES 28 2.4.1 Structure of the tifTCS_XXX public on-line database classes 28 2.4.2 Using the tifTCS_PUBLIC database class 30 2.4.3 Using the tifTCS_LOCAL database class 31 2.5 PANEL EDITOR CLASSES 32 2.5.1 tifTcsState_uifClass 32 2.6 SIMULATION PACKAGE 33 2.6.1 Introduction 33 2.6.2 Creating a TCS Simulation Environment 33 2.6.3 Using a TCS Simulation Environment 36 2.6.4 Tracking Simulation 37 2.6.5 Data and Event Simulation 38 2.6.6 Simulation Setups 40 2.6.7 Instruction Sequence 42 2.6.8 Commands 43 2.6.9 PANELS 45 2.7 STAR CATALOG INTERFACE 52 3 REFERENCE 53 3.1 TCS Interface program 53 3.2 COMMANDS 56 3.3 DATA QUERY LIBRARY 129 3.4 ONLINE DATABASE ACCESS 139 3.5 EVENT CONFIGURATION LIBRARY 143 3.6 M2 Communication Library 147 3.7 SCRIPTS FOR SIMULATION 157 3.8 STAR CATALOG INTERFACE 167 4 INSTALLATION GUIDE 169 4.1 BACKWARD/FUTURE COMPATIBILITY 169 4.2 PROBLEM REPORTING/CHANGE REQUEST 169 5 APPENDICES 171 5.1 SAMPLE PROGRAMS 172 5.1.1 Sample program for the Data Query Library 172 5.1.2 Sample program for exposure FITS file generation 174 5.1.3 Sample program for the Event Configuration Library 179 5.2 INCLUDE FILES 185 5.2.1 tif.h 185 5.2.2 tifDefines.h 189 5.2.3 m2com.h 189 5.3 ERROR DEFINITIONS 191 5.3.1 Star Catalog Interface 191 5.3.2 Database interface and Event configuration 192 5.4 COMMAND DEFINITION TABLE FOR tifControl 194 5.5 FITS KEYWORDS 237 5.5.1 FITS Keywords dictionary 237 5.5.2 Default setup file 312
