bar_check -- LORAL archive tester
Documentation for the MAX/MAXIMA archive testing program
Usage: bar_check infile
often useful to redirect the output: bar_check infile > infile.log
bar_check scans the selected file and
- Extracts the parameter descriptions and displays them.
- Determines and displays whether there is a 2 or 4 byte frame
counter
- Extracts the archive start and stop times and displays them.
- Notes unusually large differences between one time
stamp and the next, indicating lost frames, and displays them.
- Checks the byte alignment of the header for each data record.
At one time, large blocks of data where being shifted by a
byte or two within the archive while it was being
handled by the computer I/O. This checks for such
errors.
Check the source code directory for documentation on the source code.
This directory is currently:
//garbo.berkeley.edu/lange/users/wilbanks/max/loral/source
author: Thor Wilbanks
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