On Apr 18, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>> Mac OSX Snow Leopard no long supports magnetic tape IO (at least from
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> The end of an era.
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>> one routine in KAPLIBS FTS (fts1_tread.f). FITSIN in KAPPA (the only place where ft1_tread is called) and one routine in TSP (rhsp3.f). So
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> There may be other uses of MAG outside of the Starlink software...
> Don't suppose total removal can be avoided through conditional building?
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Too much effort. If someone needs MAG they can get it out of libraries/obsolete.
> The KAPPA documentation needs revision, and people pointed towards CONVERT:MTFITS2NDF. Some of us still read FITS tapes containing many files where we want to select specific files.
Did not know about mtfits2ndf. Of course the "mt" command is missing on Snow Leopard...
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Tim Jenness
Joint Astronomy Centre
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