> > I assume ESO use Mac's (since they have released that software
> > compilation CD for Mac and written a native aqua PGPLOT driver) so won't
> > they have a version of catlib that actually works with OSX by now?
>
> I recently (March) imported the latest version of catlib that I could
> find[1], so that's the one that's in the repository now, complete with
> INSTALL and install/. It doesn't appear to have been touched since 1999.
>
> Norman
>
> [1] Version 3.7.4 at ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/archive/skycat/README.html
There doesn't seem to be _too_ many files with clashing names, it might
just be possible to move a few files, tweak the makefiles and them submit
the entire bundle back to ESO as "certified as building under MacOSX
and HPFS+". They might even be pleased, or at least not overtly hostile...
Al.
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