Problem #2

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Andrew Bennett sent me baswrite.exe which reads the memory and writes 
files.  This took 36 seconds on my 500 MHz K6.  Running with the QB code it 
took 68 seconds.  A real improvement is thus possible.

I was able to read one of the files that was written and verify that it was 
an image.  I could see the expected edge effects and saw a couple of cosmic 
rays.  I don't know yet if Andrew is writing a .fts file or a raw file.  I 
could read one file with Image Scientist.  Another file confused Image 
Scientist and Deep Sky would not read any of the files.  But this is an 
existence proof.  I can just shell out of QBasic, pass the file names and 
it works.

Andrew, does baswrite.exe write .fts format or raw format?

Tom Droege