EGSE BASICS
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			    STARTING & STOPPING EGSE

- To shut down EGSE  hit the quit button on the console or on the Toolchest Menu 
  Bar choose the label MDI_EGSE and select the menu item killgse and then hit 
  shutdown

- To restart EGSE type EGSE on a shell window and the main egse console comes up 
  automatically



			        DISPLAY SCREENS

- From the unix prompt type shscreen to get the complete list of screens available

          DEP-IP Status - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/DEP Status
          Power & Temperature - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/Power & Temp 
          General Telemetry - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/GENERAL TM STATE
          Power - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/Power System 
          EOF Telemetry Distribution - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/
          EOF Command Status - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/Telemetry Display  
          Limb Tracker - Found in Toolchest/MDI_EGSE/Limb Tracker
          MDI EGSE Console - Type egse on shell window
          Sequence Status - Type screen 80 on shell window
          MDI EGSE Command Selection - Hit command button on main egse console
          MDI Flight Status - Type screen 12 on shell window



			SNAPSHOTS OF DISPLAY SCREENS

- To take snapshots of certain display windows, click the snapshot button on the 
  top of the display screen and hit the to print button, then exit.  If you want 
  to save it to file, hit the to file button before exiting.  To find the file, 
  on a shell window type shenv SNAP, then go to the directory that is shown and 
  type  ls -l | grep '<date>'  and it will list the files that have that date, and
  based on the time listed you can select the right snapshot

- To get a list of all the snapshots of a particular screen, type
  grep screen_number date.  An example is: grep screen_9 9606* lists all the the
  screen_9 snaps shots for June 96.

- Snap shots of display screens are located on /mdisw/egse_v4.2/snaps



			       FILES FROM ECS
  
- ECS ftp's files to:

	    /md80/ecs/from_ecs/chr (command history reports)
	    /md80/ecs/from_ecs/qlk (quicklook TM from tape dumps and other)
	    /md80/ecs/from_ecs/rel (real time TM)
	    /md80/ecs/from_ecs/vrp (command validation reports)

- The EGSE writes to:

	  /md80/ecs/done_ecs    
	  after the files have been processed by the EGSE



    	 		REALTIME TELEMETRY DISTRIBUTION

- Socket 0 = low rate, 1 = high rate, 2 = commanding

- MDICMD and MDISAS have auto-reconnect (as seen on the General Telemetry Page 
  under auto req), but if it has to be done manually, call the EOF or go to the 
  EOF.  If nobody is in the EOF, go to the computer and open the Telemetry Session
  Status Window on the background menu (it should be open already but if not click
  the mouse on the background to open the menu).  It is called the TLM. Hit start
  session, click on the machine you want to connect, then hit okay 



			      EGSE MAN PAGES

- On the MDI EGSE Command Selection Screen there is a MAN button.  To get the man
  page for a certain procedure, highlight a topic in the sidebar list, (under 
  DISPLAY) then highlight the procedure you want the man page for, then hit the 
  MAN button and it will come up.

- There are man pages for EGSE Version 4.2 on 

  	    /md80/mdi_egse_sw/egse_v4.2/man