Old Help

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Sometime back I asked for help to write a simple program to extract a set 
of collected files from the big file list.  I think someone wrote some code 
but I never tested it.  Now it seems to be lost.

Problem, given a list of RA and Dec and a big collected file, extract all 
the star measuremets for all the ra, dec pairs.  Rough code is fine, I can 
fill in the details.  The problem is figuring out the tricks.  These always 
take me a while.

OK, this is better done in a data base, and Michael S. is going to do 
it.  But I have promised data to a couple of people, and I am going to get 
it to them even if it means I have to use my present scheme with gawk which 
takes about 5 minutes per file since I have to great through the whole file 
to extract each measurement list.

So if someone can remember doing this I would appreciate it if you could 
re-send the code.

Tom Droege