25 April 2009
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The protocol files in this directory are for use with scientific and
astronomical CCD cameras manufactured by Apogee.  They depend on an Open Source
library in the libapogee directory of this version of xmccd. The source code on
which the library is based is available from The Random Factory
at http://www.randomfactory.com .

The software has been tested with Apogee Alta USB cameras, including 
including the U16M and the U9000.  We have an Alta U6 which will be used to
test the ethernet interface, but only the USB interface has been used so far.
Other USB camera types should work as well if the appropriate libraries are 
built for them. A library for the parallel port camera is included, but it is
also untested. 

Please see the  libapogee directory for more information on camera types
explicitly included in the USB and NET libraries.

Note that in this release only the USB version has been implemented in the 
XmCCD driver.




