Index: /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppMerge.config
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--- /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppMerge.config	(revision 18252)
+++ /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppMerge.config	(revision 18253)
@@ -25,4 +25,7 @@
 MEAN		STR	ROBUST_MEDIAN	# Statistic to use to measure the mean
 STDEV		STR	ROBUST_STDEV	# Statistic to use to measure the stdev
+
+MASK.SMOOTH.SUSPECT BOOL TRUE           # smooth the suspect-pixel image before making mask
+MASK.SMOOTH.SCALE   F32  3.0            # sigma (pixels) of smoothing kernel
 
 STATS.BY.CHIP   BOOL    TRUE            # measure stats for masking by chip (or by readout)