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To: head@head-cfa.harvard.edu, msgs@head-cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: FTOOLS update
Date: Wed, 17 May 95 14:04:34 EDT
From: Wendy P. Roberts

To FTOOLS users.

The initial setup for FTOOLS has been changed since the last installation
to provide a switch between SunOS 4 and Solaris platforms.
In order to get a right set up you need to rerun mkftools
(/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host/mkftools will work for both platforms).


After this a Solaris user will automatically get FTOOLS routines from
/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol
and FTOOLS scripts from
/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl_sol

while the SunOS 4 user will have
/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host
/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl
respectively.

Due to a lack of disk space, not every FTOOLS program was recompiled
under Solaris.

In this case the program from /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol is just a
symbolic link to the SunOS 4 version:

ls -l /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol/mkftools
/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol/mkftools -> ../bin.host/mkftools

If you should find any SunOS 4 version not running under Solaris, please
send e-mail to syshelp, and a Solaris version will be compiled.

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To: irafusers@head-cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: FTOOLS 3.3
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 15:49:46 EST
From: Wendy P. Roberts

The latest version of FTOOLS (3.3) has been installed
under IRAF and IRAFX.

To use the HOST version, or to access HEASARC/FTOOLS Home Page
or documentation, please see www syshelp page:

SYSHELP -->
Help! -->
Software Packages -->
FTOOLS/XSELECT


Please let me know if you encounter any problems.

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Wendy Roberts Harvard-Smithsonian Center

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:32:18 -0500
Sender: ascanews@ascasrv.gsfc.nasa.gov
Precedence: bulk
From: "Charles Day, ASCA GOF, NASA GSFC"
To: aldcroft@garth.harvard.edu
Subject: Latest FTOOLS and XSELECT releases now available
X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas


Dear ASCA PIs and archival researchers:

Versions 3.3 of FTOOLS and 1.3 of XSELECT are now available. Detailed
release notes are appended to this message. Here are the highlights:

o SISPI: This FTOOL for filling the SIS PI (Pulse Invariant) column in
Bright mode event lists has now been incorporated into ASCALIN and
the "faint" command in XSELECT. In addition, it can be invoked from
within XSELECT using the command "sispi".

o FAINT and DFE: The bug reported earlier in FAINT has been fixed: the
FTOOL now correctly reads the name of the DFE file for all platforms.

o PI IS NOW THE DEFAULT COLUMN FOR EXTRACTING SIS SPECTRA IN XSELECT.
If you wish to extract a PHA spectrum, you should issue the command
"set phaname pha" before the extraction.

o FTOOLS NOW RUNS UNDER SGI/IRIX.

o GRPPHA: Two enhancements come with this latest release. The ability
to overwrite the input file move conveniently, and a new class of
commands called "dump" which write settings, such as grouping, to
ASCII files.

Although not making their debut with this release, the Perl scripts
ASCASCREEN and its GUI-driven version TKASCASCREEN still provide the
most convenient way of reducing ASCA data. They are part of the FTOOLS
release and are invoked by simply typing "ascascreen" or "tkascascreen"
at your system prompt.

Limited exposure map and flat field generation is possible using
XIMAGE and the FTOOLS ASCAEXPO and ASCAEFFMAP.


Charles Day, ASCA GOF, NASA GSFC

Please send comments and questions to ascahelp@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov


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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< SOFTWARE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
---------------------------------
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FTOOLS VERSION 3.3 DISTRIBUTION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< XSELECT VERSION 1.3 DISTRIBUTION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

How: Anonymous FTP from legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov
Where: software/ftools/release/FTools_3.3 directory
What: ******* FTOOLS Source and Data *******
***(get both unless you are only building "core" FTOOLS) ***
ftools.v3.3.tar.Z - Source Code Distribution for all platforms
refdata.v3.3.tar.Z - Minimal subset of Calibration Database

*** Compressed Postscript Documentation ***
***(in software/ftools/release/doc directory)***
Develop.v3.3.ps.Z - Developer's Guide
Install.v3.3.ps.Z - Installation Guide
Users.v3.3.ps.Z - User's Guide
TechRef.v3.3.ps.Z - Complete User's Guide and help pages

*** HTML Documentation ***
at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/ftools_menu.html

Supported Platforms: (See Installation Guide for details)
unix ALPHA/OSF, DEC/ULTRIX, SUN/SunOS, SGI/IRIX
vms ALPHA/VMS, VAX/VMS

FTOOLS Version 3.3 Summary:
===========================

The FTOOLS have now been ported to Silicon Graphics workstations running
IRIX. With the release of Perl5, most FTOOLS Perl scripts can be run
on VMS machines (complete porting of all non-GUI scripts is planned).

New tasks available:

abc - Apply Barycentric Corrections to ROSAT event data.
ascaexpo - Generate an exposure map for an ASCA observation.
bct - Produce a Barycenter Correction Table from ROSAT orbit data
bkg - Subtract a background from a binned light curve
col2img - Converts a collimator response dataset to an image
fvec2img - Create an image from a column of vectors
hriexpmap - Creates exposure map for given ROSAT HRI observational dataset
hrifilt - Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file
modalid - Print the space craft modal configuration (ASCA)
perdgrm - Adds a sine curve and/or pulse-profile to a light curve. (XTE)
sky2xy - Transform from sky to pixel coordinates using WCS keywords
src2pha - Creates a PHA file from specified extensions in a ROSAT src file
xy2sky - Transform from pixel to sky coordinates using WCS keywords



XSELECT version 1.3 summary:
============================

New Commands:
* SISPI this will fill the PI column for SIS BRIGHT data. This
command is run automatically as a part of FAINT, so there is
no reason to run it on FAINT data, but you can.

Bug Fixes:
* Sometimes Xselect would use the original data rather than the
appropriate product events file. This might cause the effects of
SELECT EVENTS to get lost. This is now fixed.
* The ROSAT support is more robust.

New Features:
* The default energy column for the ASCA SIS instruments is now PI



ROSAT FTOOLS News
============================

New tools:

hrifilt - Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file.
The resultant makefilter file can be used to screen data
using Xselect.

hriexpmap - Creates exposure map for given ROSAT HRI observational dataset

abc - Apply Barycentric Corrections to ROSAT event data.

bct - Produce a Barycenter Correction Table from ROSAT orbit data.

rosbary - script to do ROSAT barycentric correction
This runs abc and bct together.

src2pha - Creates a PHA file from specified extensions in an RDF
src file. NOTE: There is a driver script to call this
FTOOL, EXTPHA, type 'extpha' at your UNIX or DCL prompt
and follow the directions.
hiback - Script to create a qsrc file from an src file. It runs
MKQSRC and adds a BKG_SUSP keyword to the output file as
well.

HEASARC FTOOLS News
=============================

New features in GRPPHA:

Users are now allowed to over-write the input file. This can be achieved by
either setting the hidden Boolean parameter "clobber" to yes, or by making
use of the "!"-convention whereby the output filename is preceded by an "!".

A new "family" of command strings, DUMP, has been introduced. DUMP allows
the user to write an ascii file containing the current settings, this file
may be useful if the user wishes to apply the same settings in another GRPPHA
run. Currently there are 3 possible commands: DUMP GROUPING, DUMP SYSTEMATICS
and DUMP QUALITY.

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To: irafusers@head-cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: FTOOLS 3.2 Installation
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 15:37:33 EST
From: "Wendy P. Roberts"


FTOOLS 3.2 has been installed and compiled.

The IRAF version can be accessed via IRAFX (setirafx).
I will install the new version in IRAF (setiraf) in one week if
there are no objections; until then, IRAF is running FTOOLS 3.0.

To access the FTOOLS 3.2 host version:

Add appropriate path -

> set path = ($path /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.host)

Make directories, if they don't already exist -

> mkdir ~/myftools ~/myftools/pfiles ~/myftools/data

Set environment variables -

> setenv LOCPFILES ~/myftools/pfiles
> setenv SYSPFILES /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.host
> setenv PFILES "$LOCPFILES;$SYSPFILES"
> setenv PFCLOBBER 1

The following documents may be found in /iraf/irafext2/ftools3.2:

Develop.v3.2.ps.Z
FITSIO.NOTES
Release_notes_3.2
TechRef.v3.2.ps.Z
Users.v3.2.ps
Xselect_Users_Guide_10.ps.Z



========
Wendy Roberts Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics
roberts@cfa.harvard.edu 60 Garden Street, MS 12
Phone: 617-495-7153 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~wendy/

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Subject: Re: ascascreen
Cc: asca-users@head-cfa.harvard.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from lpd@cfa271.harvard.edu (Larry David)
of "Wed, 16 Nov 1994 16:40:18 -0500." <9411162140.AA03402@cfa271.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:37:47 EST
From: "Wendy P. Roberts"

>
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody found the new tasks ascascreen or tkascascreen
> in ftools 3.2?
>
> Larry
>

cfa205-901: ls /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl
Tkascascreen.def fix_rev0_pha* pconfig*
ascascreen* interface.pl tkascascreen@
extpha* mk_allevt* tkinterface.pl
find_perl.sh* parselog.pl* utils.pl

>From the Installation Guide:

New to the FTOOLS 3.2 release is a suit of PERL scripts.
.
.
The FTOOLS distribution includes a bin.perl directory where these scripts
reside after the FTOOLS build is complete.

>From the Users Guide:

In order to use the new PERL scripts found in the bin.perl directory,
you must add the directory to your PATH environment variable.

So you will need to add:

/iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl

to your PATH.

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