Fortran Lives!!!
SPICELIB is a collection of over 750 subroutines and functions,
extensively documented, which perform many I/O, string, & numerical
operations to make life for the F77 programmer easier.
General Categories of SPICELIB
Routines.
This document combines features of the Permuted Index and the Glossary,
but instead gives broad categories under which the routines can be
classified, broadly defined by the kinds of operations one is likely to
want to perform. The glossary's shorthand descriptions are included.
(incomplete)
SPICELIB Glossary. A quick alphabetical
index/glossary/summary of 550+ of the subroutines in the SPICELIB library.
At one point, this represented quick-descriptions of all of the routines,
but over 200 new ones have been added in the past 2 years.
Permuted Index of NAIF/SPICELIB Routines. This
document was supplied by Nat Bachman of NAIF/JPL.
NAIF Target IDs. Permanently under construction
is a list of NAIF IDs for various solar system objects. Warning! Just
because object IDs are in this table doesn't mean it is in the SPK kernel
you are using! Use SPACIT or COMMNT to determine if it is.
How do I get NAIF/SPICELIB for my own platform?
NAIF Home Page. Find out
more about NAIF/SPICELIB. If you want to skip the rigamarole of
contacting the node chief for instructions on how to get the package,
read this mail message I received on how to
install. Note that the supported platforms are SunOS, Solaris, NEXT,
SGI, several PC compilers, Mac & PowerMac, HPUX, Alpha & VAX/VMS!
How do I use SPICELIB?
If you are a fortran user and program on the sun network at U. Maryland,
it is easy. Once you have identified which routine you need, and check
the syntax of how to use it and have put it in your code, you will need to
link to the appropriate library. Detailed instructions will be posted
later, but meanwhile, if you are interested in using the library, you may
contact me at jordania@astro.umd.edu or 410-338-5037.
Other SPICELIB links:
SPICELIB at STSCI
Let me look at the source code for these
routines.
Document last updated 97-02-21.