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About the IUEDAC

IUEDAC User's Guide

The latest IUEDAC User's Guide was updated on February 5th, 1998, and is now available online. The changes primarily include more information on working with various file formats and analyzing NEWSIPS data. (Note the one major change since the User's guide was updated was that the program COADD is now compatible with NEWSIPS high dispersion files.)

The User's Guide is also available for downloading in either Postscript (guide.ps) , LaTeX (guide.tex) , or PDF (guide.pdf) format. A limited number of hardcopies are available on request.

IUEDAC IDL Software Libraries

Latest News: Chronological listing of the most recent changes to the IUEDAC software libraries.

The IUEDAC software libraries below (except the windows NT file which was updated March 16th, 2000), were last updated: 30 June 1999.

Macintosh
Ultrix and DEC Unix
Sun Unix. May also be used for Linux (although this platform is not officially supported).
Vax VMS. Please see this note concerning record attributes and recent IDL changes.
Windows. Use win31_rdaf.exe for windows 3.1 systems, winNT_rdaf.zip for others.

Individual Procedures: Allows individual programs to be displayed or downloaded.
Beta software: Files for all platforms created or modified since the last library set was created.

IUEDAC Software Documentation

The primary source for documentation on individual programs is the procedure prologs. The IUEDAC Software Documentation Search page allows this information to be displayed for specific procedures. Since the IUEDAC prologs uses a standard format, searches can also be made of subheadings by specifying the particular keyword. For example, the "modification history" can be displayed to see when the last changes were made, or a summary of the progam or programs (wildcards are allowed) can be displayed by selecting the keyword "purpose".

Y2K Testing

The Y2K-Testing page describes a study to determine which if any of the IUEDAC programs may have problems in the year 2000. The study resulted in several program modifications, all of which have now been incorporated into the IUEDAC libraries. The compressed libraries are available for download from the iuedac software directory in the anonymous ftp area.

Related Sites

Research Systems Inc.: WEB site for RSI, the company which markets IDL.
IDL Astronomy User's Library: A library of IDL routines supported by Wayne Landsman at Goddard Space Flight Center.
More Links: An extensive list of links to other IDL and Astronomy-related WEB sites also maintained by Wayne Landsman at Goddard Space Flight Center.