Index: /trunk/Ohana/src/perl/src/dt.select
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--- /trunk/Ohana/src/perl/src/dt.select	(revision 119)
+++ /trunk/Ohana/src/perl/src/dt.select	(revision 120)
@@ -38,4 +38,12 @@
 
 $CCDWORD      = `gconfig CCDNUM-KEYWORD`; chop $CCDWORD;
+$CHIPSKIP     = `gconfig CHIP_SKIP_LIST`; chop $CHIPSKIP;
+@chipskip = ();
+if (-e $CHIPSKIP) { 
+    open (FILE, $CHIPSKIP);
+    @chipskip = <FILE>;
+    close (FILE);
+    foreach $chip (@chipskip) { chop $chip; }
+}
 
 # relevant camera parameters
@@ -132,4 +140,7 @@
 	foreach $chip (@list2) {
 	    @words2 = split (" ", $chip);
+	    foreach $chipskip (@chipskip) { 
+		if ($words2[3] eq $chipskip) { next CHIP; }
+	    }
 	    
 	    # test for acceptable counts range