In this example, skymap is used in a
shell script which prints a series of finder charts centered on the stars
in a catalog. The catalog pathname, enclosed in quotes so the slashes are
not mistakenly assumed to be comment delimiters, is initialized by the
first skymap call. So that string matches are exact, the limiting
values are gotten from skymap in the same way that the values with
which they will be compared are. a is set to the initial value
of 1, and b to one value past the final desired star
in the next two invocations of skymap. Within the loop, skymap
is executed once for each star, producing a map of which a hard copy is
made by pstek. 1 is added to cstar, and a is
set to the new value of cstar. The loop continues until a
is equal to b, that is until cstar is increased to 11.
skymap menu=n sfname="mkp.so" sfdir="/home/mink/Stars/occult" stop
b=`skymap parval=y cstar=11 cstar`
a=`skymap parval=y cstar=1 cstar`
while test "$a" != "$b"
do
skymap
pstek skymap.plot
echo hardcopy for star `skymap cstar` in queue `date`
skymap cstar+1 stop
a=`skymap cstar`
done
skymap menu=y stop
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