Tcl as a software environment for a TCS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 251-260

  Terrett, David L ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linux; Pointing; SOAR; Tcl Tk

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; USER INTERFACES;

POINTING; SCRIPTING LANGUAGE; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036985985     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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