Jim,
Answer to the question on just changing from ST7 to ST8, yes. But there actually was a file which does this flash. I know I have it some place, but wow, its going to take some hunting to find it. Sounds like you might the answer with the CCDops program.

Sorry to read about the decline to release the old code, its a shame since SBIG was literally the first camera I can remember which supported Linux. And you are definitely on the approach which I am looking at. I thought the code in the link might get us there, but if not, I will dig a bit more.

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