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Need an explanation of how the tasks get launched by FastCopy
Some existing documentation can be found in /afs/slac/g/glast/ground/PipelineConfig/BeamTest-tasks/beamtestPipeline/current/doc.
install.txt and operation.txt may both be read directly. Running make in the doc directory will use IAndTPipeline.tex and several .dot files to make a .pdf.
Policy for updating tasks
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Setting up the environment so that one can acess the ORACLE database
Source /u/gl/glast/pdb_config/dpf_config_prod.csh (or .sh if you use BASH) to run the pipeline text-mode management tools, which are installed in $PDB_HOME (which is set by the config script).
Pipeline Tasks and Associated Scripts
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