Remaining IRAF V2.11.3 upgrades available

Doug Tody wrote on Dec 15, 1999

IRAF V2.11.3 UPGRADES COMPLETED
Wed Dec 15 20:14:03 MST 1999


The IRAF V2.11.3 workstation upgrades promised last week are now available
for downloading.  This includes support the following platforms:

 IRAF Distribution	  Description		 OS Version

      DUNX	       Compaq/Digital Unix	  DU V4.0B
      HPUX		    HP Unix	        HP-UX B.10.20
      IRIX		    SGI IRIX		  IRIX 6.5
      AIX4		    IBM AIX		  AIX 4.1
      VMS7		    OpenVMS		 OpenVMS 7.1

This completes the IRAF V2.11.3 upgrades for all platforms.  Upgrades for
Sun systems (Solaris and SunOS) and the PC-IRAF systems (FreeBSD, Slackware
Linux, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, and Solaris x86) were released on December
7.  All of these systems are essentially equivalent so far as IRAF usage
is concerned.

Any existing IRAF installations earlier than Version 2.11.2 must be updated
to add support for Y2K.  This includes support for the new Y2K-compliant
FITS date formats, as well as a few related bug fixes.

RedHat Linux users should note that support for RedHat 5.2 has been added
to PC-IRAF as an optional set of binaries.  Instructions for installing
the RedHat 5.2 binaries is given in the README file in the PCIX distribution.
Support for this older version will be dropped after this release.

All of these distributions are available on iraf.noao.edu in /iraf/v211.
The README files describing each distribution are available in

    ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/v211/<platform>/README

where <platform> is one of DUNX, HPUX, IRIX, AIX4, VMS7, SSOL, or PCIX.

The full distribution has been regenerated for all platforms.  Patches
(to upgrade an existing IRAF installation) are optionally available for
all platforms except AIX4 and VMS7.

Additional detail on these releases and other IRAF developments is available
via the IRAF web pages at http://iraf.noao.edu.

See the URL http://iraf.noao.edu/v2112revs.html for a detailed description
of what is included in the fall 1999 V2.11.2 and V2.11.3 patches.  Most
of the new features were introduced in V2.11.2.  V2.11.3 mostly consists
of additional bug fixes, minor changes related to the PC-IRAF upgrades,
and a few isolated minor application enhancements.  The system notes file
(iraf/local/notes.v211) documents these revisions in detail for the core
system.

Any problems that come up after the release will be either noted in the
distribution README files or posted to one of the IRAF mailing lists
(adass.iraf.system, adass.iraf.applications, adass.iraf.buglog, etc.).
You may want to subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists to keep up
to date on IRAF developments, to get answers to problems, or otherwise
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Wed Dec 15 1999

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