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).
[and I'm not going to change them to table fits before anyone asks!]
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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