2012-12-04

Change to way config files work

With today's cutting-edge starlink, configuration parameters work slightly differently in cases where a value is assigned to a parameter twice. For instance, if you config file holds

450.flt.filt_edge_largescale=600
flt.filt_edge_largescale=500

then previously the value 600 would have been adopted when processing 450 um data. With the new changes, the value 500 will be adopted instead. That is, unqualified values now take priority over qualified values.

This will be most relevant if your config file inherits from another config file (which almost all do), in which parameters are specified with qualifiers. Previously, in order to override such a value in your own config, you needed to include the wavelength. But now, you no longer need to include the wavelength.

These changes have been installed at Hilo. To use them at your locally, you will need to rsync from Hilo.

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