pipeline  v0.6  -  by Michael W. Richmond <mwrsps@rit.edu>
(C)opyright 2002-2005, Michael W. Richmond, all rights reserved

This package contains software which reduces astronomical 
CCD images and calibrates the results.  It calls upon external
programs in other packages to do much of the dirty work.
The pipeline was designed to handle data from the TASS Mark IV
cameras.  You can read more about TASS at

         http://www.tass-survey.org/


INSTALLATION

Follow the standard installation procedure:

  - uncompress the gzip'ed tar archive
  - cd pipeline-0.6
  - ./configure
  - make

See the documentation in "pipeline.html" and "step_by_step.html"
for a explanation of what the pipeline does, and what other
software is needed to support it.


REQUIREMENTS

The pipeline consists of TCL source code files, so your system 
must have TCL installed.   There is a single Perl script which
duplicates the action of one TCL file, but is much faster.  
The pipeline will try to run it first, but if your system doesn't
have Perl, it will then go to the equivalent TCL script as a backup.