Libraries

These are support libraries used by MST developed programs.

PGPLOT	C and Fortran callable scientific plotting package
PGPLOT.pm	Perl module interface to PGPLOT
Image::DS9	A Perl module to communicate with DS9
Img2D	abstract class for images
Img2D::Events	create an image from an event list
Region2D	abstract class which defines and operates on regions
Region2D::Box	extract events within a Box

BsplineEval	A C-library to evaluate a spline from its B-spline representation
dvm3	3-vector/matrix classes; uses bound static functions from vm_Math
FFTW	FFTW, the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
ranlib	a random number library THIS IS NOW OBSOLETE. use randlib instead.
randlib	a random number library ( replaces ranlib)
std_complex_dbl	Nontemplate complex arithmetic class for rl_RayLib. The class is modeled on the ISO C++ complex class.
rl_RayLib	beginnings of a ray class library. Support for complex dielectric constants, ray projection and reflection, multilayer reflectivity. Uses vm_Math and dvm3 packages.
rl_RaySupLib	Supplementary classes for rl_RayLib Classes for reading in dielectric data and multilayer information from RDB files; support for handling `BPipe` rays.

AXAFCoords.pm	Perl Coordinate Systems conversion functions
AXAFCoords.lua	Lua Coordinate Systems conversion functions
WCS Tools	WCS, source catalog, sundry FITS routines

bpipe	bpipe data manipulation
cfitsio	Interface to FITS files FITSIO Home installation guide Quick Start: HTML, ps. C API: html, ps. Fortran API: ps,
funtools	Interfact to FITS files

CXC::Archive	wrapper around the DS arc4gl interface to the archive
mst_rdb	A C library to read rdb tables
Pg::Simple	simple OO interface to PostgreSQL. similar to DBI, but with cursors
PgStuff	dirt simple interface to PostgreSQL, makes it easy to stuff things into a database table
RDB.lua	A Lua class for easily using `RDB` files.
RDB.pm	A Perl5 Object class for easily using `RDB` files. (Available with the MST Perl installation.)
RDB++	A C++ library to read and write `RDB` tables.
RDB++.ps	A postscript version of the RDB++ docs.

BSearch.pm	Binary search routines for Perl
ConfigWild.pm	A perl module to provide an interface to configuration files composed of 'keyword=value' pairs, with wildcard keyword expansion
diffract	A library function to diffract off a reflection/transmission grating
Exception	The Exception class
getline	A library to provide history and editing capabilities for interactive user input from terminals
getopt	The GNU version of getopt. It provides long option names in addition to the standard UNIX single letter name. For more information, see the appropriate section in the glibc documentation
glibc	The GNU libc library. Currently we only use the getopt stuff, which is split out into the `getopt` library.
JGL	The Java Generic Libary
KeyValue	Keyword = Value string parsing
linklist	C linked lists
Param	C++ Param Interface
Plane	A C++ library to find the intersection of a line to a plane
rbtree	red-black binary trees
suplib	a fabulous collection of miscellaneous support routines
suplib++	a somewhat smaller collection of miscellaneous support routines in C++
text	C++ text class
GNU readline	readline, history
PipeC.pm	manage command pipes
testlib	aid writing test code for libraries and programs html, PDF
tracefct	provide function backtrace capabilities for C applications
TraceFct	provide function backtrace capabilities for C++ applications
wildmat	perform shell-style wildcard matching

cintutil	The CINT utility library
luasup	A C library to ease interfacing to Lua

IPC::XPA	A Perl interface to the XPA library
Expect::Simple	A wrapper around the Perl Expect module

Raytrace.pm	A Perl module for dealing with some raytrace issues.
XRCF.pm	a bundle of Perl code useful for miscellaneous XRCF work

Last modified: Wed Nov 3 18:13:44 EST 2004