On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
> > it's not that simple, these catalogues are all in different platform
> > dependent formats (unformatted Fortran writes of various kinds)...
> > However, I've managed to re-create the original ASCII format from some
> > Solaris versions I had lying around and copied these all onto saturn. The
> > ASCII versions are same name, but end in ".asc", the Solaris catalogues
> > are also there for reference.
> >
> > Now for the fun, to make a platform catalogue it seems you need to run the
> > programs ast2b, csi2b and nso2b on these ASCII catalogues. These programs
> > are part of CHART (for some reason lost to me the catalogues were
> > distributed separately, probably their "extreme" size I'd guess). Clearly
> > there are many ways to do this job better than this, but, as other's say
> > it's not worth the effort.
>
> Thanks! Catalogues now seem to be working in CHART (at least I've got it
> to create a finding chart in glorious color!).
>
> I put the catalogues in CVS but gzipped (they are stil labout 12MB).
I'll get onto providing STIL/TOPCAT input handlers for these formats ASAP.
(joke.)
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