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202 APPENDIX E. <strong>BAT</strong> SOFTWARE REVISION HISTORY<br />

bathotpix -<br />

* Can now handle rate data<br />

* bug fix<br />

batmasktaglc -<br />

* INTERFACE CHANGE: add ’corrections’ parameter for cosine,<br />

partial coding and flatfielding adjustments.<br />

* Add support for multiple mask weight maps.<br />

* More robust estimate of T50/90, also including uncertainty estimates.<br />

* Optimization<br />

Tasks batevt2dpi, batgse2dpi, batgse2dph, and batmasktagpha are<br />

considered obsolete, and/or not for end users.<br />

E.8 Swift <strong>BAT</strong> <strong>Software</strong> Build 10: 2004 Oct 10<br />

1. Overview<br />

This build is more or less a clean-up build. <strong>The</strong>re are some bug fixes<br />

and small improvements, but there was some effort to avoid changes<br />

where they weren’t needed.<br />

"Revision 2" release notes contains some additional enhancements over<br />

the first delivery, to batmaskwtimg and batmaskwtevt. It also<br />

includes some documentation updates.<br />

"Revision 3" provides a note that the task baterebin is not<br />

functioning properly (see section 3)<br />

This release compiles and runs its unit tests successfully on Linux,<br />

Mac OSX, and Alpha OSF. See below for some issues with the Alpha.<br />

<strong>The</strong> "X-pointed" teldef file is delivered in the "test" CALDB used for<br />

unit testing.<br />

2. Summary of tool changes<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are no new tools.<br />

Revised tools<br />

batbinevt<br />

* produce FLUXMETH keyword in output files (flux extraction method)<br />

* bug fix for output of CHANTYPE keyword (was writing column<br />

name instead of PHA/PI)

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