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(Julie McEnery, Nov 27) It would be very nice to have tools to correctly merge event data files. This cropped up as a common need in DC2 and more recently when finishing up the 1 year gtobssim run. To start with it might be nice if gtselect could accept file lists, although I appreciate that a final solution (to correctly take care of GTI) may need to be more sophisticated.
Jim Chiang, 11/29/06--I have a python script that I use in ASP that I believe does this merging of FT1 files correctly using the fmerge FTOOL: ft1merge.py As the comments in this code indicate, this script assumes that input data are partitioned in time and that all other DSS cuts are the same among the files. Given that fmerge already exists as an FTOOL and that a such a simple script using fmerge can do the job, I think it is worth reconsidering whether all ScienceTools run from the command line need to be compiled st_apps. After all, standard FTOOLs contain perl scripts that perform much the same kind of functionality in terms of driving other standalone FTOOLs.
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