Troubleshooting guide
In this example the data disk on flamingos1a, /data, is 44% full, and has 38 GB of available space. For 
imaging you should ensure that there is at least 10 GB of space available; for spectroscopy you should 
have ~5 GB of space. However, note that the image acquisition scripts will complain on each and 
every image if the flamingos1a disk space is ≥ 93% full, and will refuse to take any more data if the 
disk is ≥ 97% full.
5. Open the shortcuts menu. Many of the common FLAMINGOS commands which do not require arguments 
may now be run from a shortcuts menu on the second-1 or second-2 desktop. Double-click on the 
FLAMINGOS icon to bring up the menu (Figure 2).  In the following, the appropriate button will be noted in 
square brackets along with the command line input.
Figure 2:  Command menu on the second-1/2 desktop.
 BUTTON FLAMINGOS COMMAND
Configure Exposure  config.exposure.pl
Set Exposure Time  set.exposuretime.pl
Initialize Wheels  engineering.config.filter.grism.decker.wheels.pl
Move Wheels  config.rel.mv.filter.grism.decker.wheels.pl
Move MOS Wheel  config.rel.mv.mos.wheel.pl
Set Dither Pattern  config.dither.kpno.pl
Execute Dither  dither.source.kpno.pl
Take Image  singleimage.pl
Abort Dither Script  [aborts an ongoing dither script]
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