Chapter 1. Xyd and Xxy

Table of Contents
Introduction
Building Xxy and Xyd
Xyd / Xxy - Software Overview
Xxy (GUI Interface)
Tcl Interface
Programming - Controlling the Daemon with User Software
xyd - Network Interface
xysim - Simulator
tcssim - Simulator
xyd - Version Information

Introduction

This document is a user's and programmer's guide to xyd, a daemon for controlling the University of Hawaii 88" Telescope xy stage. Xxy is the graphical user interface to xyd.

A PostScript version of this document is available as xyd.ps (or compressed using gzip: xyd.ps.gz). A rtf version of this document (compatible with many word processors) is available as xyd.rtf. An acrobat (PDF) version of this document is available as xyd.pdf.

License and Disclaimer

xyd is Copyright 2003 University of Hawaii.

Caution

This software is released as is. There is no warranty provided or implied. The user assumes full responsibility for using this system. This includes any damage which may occur, either through misuse of the software or through software defects.

This release of xyd is not intended for general distribution, and is not to be redistributed.

Contact Information

This document and xyd were written by Hubert Yamada (Home page http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/, e-mail yamada@ifa.hawaii.edu) for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.

The most recent version of this document may be found at http://ccd.ifa.hawaii.edu/xyd/