On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> IDI is a funny package. This is deprecated as it only works for 8 bit
> displays (it's now gone from KAPPA and CCDPACK) and was written to conform
> to the standard:
>
> http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1988A%26AS...76..263T
>
Wow. Starlink should publish more refereed papers! [has someone collated
all the Starlink ADS publications? They should go on the web site (I did a
JAC equivalent: http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JAC/software/pubs.html ]
> The weirdness you see is just it trying to remain independent of the SSC
> (hence it's own IDI__OK error code for non-UK facilities).
I'll add a note that IDI__OK must == SAI__OK
>
> Re: PGP, peeking at GRERR, I'd say what's happened is that someone thought
> that it has ran out of error codes, and has gone back to use values half
> way between (filling in the *4 intervals). In fact I believe you can have
> more (512 or 4096 looks about right). Try asking Dave Terrett, he wrote
> PGP and may remember.
I'm at the point where I will simply assume it was an error and "fix"
them.
Thanks for the input.
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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