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The MIDAS release 94NOV is the 9th official release of
portable MIDAS. A number of new applications have been added to
this version. Given below is a overview of the changes and
improvements compared with the previous release:
- Readline: a new line editor from GNU only on UNIX systems.
It enhances the line editing
capabilities of MIDAS, like a history stack of commands, Emacs or Vi
editing functions, command and filename completion functions, and a
communication channel to the MIDAS GUI Xhelp for a help-on-line function
- INTAPE/FITS with data decompression on-the-fly only on UNIX systems.
Compressed FITS data, by default those with extensions .z and .Z,
are decompressed automatically on-the-fly (pipeline) when accessed.
- The generic-tape driver. Based in the semi-standard MTIO system
interface to tapes, this new driver handles most of the tape
devices without any other particular configuration than the
system device-name.
- A new client/server model for access to remote tapes with
machine-independent data structures.
- A refurbishment of the graphics software that resulted in
notable improvements in performance. Graphical representation
of three dimensional tables is now also supported.
- Graphical user interfaces for the Data Organizer context (DO)
and for the context IRSPEC.
- A upgrade of the CCD context which now also include test
procedures for monitoring the quality of the detectors by
a series of standard tests.
- A new astrometry package called ASTROMET has been included.
For a more complete list of all updates/additions use the MIDAS command
HELP [NEWS] after having installed this release. A hardcopy of it can
be obtained via PRINT/HELP [NEWS].
Pascal Ballester
Fri Mar 24 17:17:52 MET 1995