***************************************************************************** To: head@head-cfa.harvard.edu, msgs@head-cfa.harvard.edu Subject: FTOOLS update Date: Wed, 17 May 95 14:04:34 EDT From: Wendy P. Roberts To FTOOLS users. The initial setup for FTOOLS has been changed since the last installation to provide a switch between SunOS 4 and Solaris platforms. In order to get a right set up you need to rerun mkftools (/soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host/mkftools will work for both platforms). After this a Solaris user will automatically get FTOOLS routines from /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol and FTOOLS scripts from /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl_sol while the SunOS 4 user will have /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl respectively. Due to a lack of disk space, not every FTOOLS program was recompiled under Solaris. In this case the program from /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol is just a symbolic link to the SunOS 4 version: ls -l /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol/mkftools /soft/irafext2/ftools/bin.host_sol/mkftools -> ../bin.host/mkftools If you should find any SunOS 4 version not running under Solaris, please send e-mail to syshelp, and a Solaris version will be compiled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************************** To: irafusers@head-cfa.harvard.edu Subject: FTOOLS 3.3 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 15:49:46 EST From: Wendy P. Roberts The latest version of FTOOLS (3.3) has been installed under IRAF and IRAFX. To use the HOST version, or to access HEASARC/FTOOLS Home Page or documentation, please see www syshelp page: SYSHELP --> Help! --> Software Packages --> FTOOLS/XSELECT Please let me know if you encounter any problems. ======== Wendy Roberts Harvard-Smithsonian Center ***************************************************************************** Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:32:18 -0500 Sender: ascanews@ascasrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Charles Day, ASCA GOF, NASA GSFC" To: aldcroft@garth.harvard.edu Subject: Latest FTOOLS and XSELECT releases now available X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Dear ASCA PIs and archival researchers: Versions 3.3 of FTOOLS and 1.3 of XSELECT are now available. Detailed release notes are appended to this message. Here are the highlights: o SISPI: This FTOOL for filling the SIS PI (Pulse Invariant) column in Bright mode event lists has now been incorporated into ASCALIN and the "faint" command in XSELECT. In addition, it can be invoked from within XSELECT using the command "sispi". o FAINT and DFE: The bug reported earlier in FAINT has been fixed: the FTOOL now correctly reads the name of the DFE file for all platforms. o PI IS NOW THE DEFAULT COLUMN FOR EXTRACTING SIS SPECTRA IN XSELECT. If you wish to extract a PHA spectrum, you should issue the command "set phaname pha" before the extraction. o FTOOLS NOW RUNS UNDER SGI/IRIX. o GRPPHA: Two enhancements come with this latest release. The ability to overwrite the input file move conveniently, and a new class of commands called "dump" which write settings, such as grouping, to ASCII files. Although not making their debut with this release, the Perl scripts ASCASCREEN and its GUI-driven version TKASCASCREEN still provide the most convenient way of reducing ASCA data. They are part of the FTOOLS release and are invoked by simply typing "ascascreen" or "tkascascreen" at your system prompt. Limited exposure map and flat field generation is possible using XIMAGE and the FTOOLS ASCAEXPO and ASCAEFFMAP. Charles Day, ASCA GOF, NASA GSFC Please send comments and questions to ascahelp@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< SOFTWARE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --------------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FTOOLS VERSION 3.3 DISTRIBUTION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< XSELECT VERSION 1.3 DISTRIBUTION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How: Anonymous FTP from legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov Where: software/ftools/release/FTools_3.3 directory What: ******* FTOOLS Source and Data ******* ***(get both unless you are only building "core" FTOOLS) *** ftools.v3.3.tar.Z - Source Code Distribution for all platforms refdata.v3.3.tar.Z - Minimal subset of Calibration Database *** Compressed Postscript Documentation *** ***(in software/ftools/release/doc directory)*** Develop.v3.3.ps.Z - Developer's Guide Install.v3.3.ps.Z - Installation Guide Users.v3.3.ps.Z - User's Guide TechRef.v3.3.ps.Z - Complete User's Guide and help pages *** HTML Documentation *** at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/ftools_menu.html Supported Platforms: (See Installation Guide for details) unix ALPHA/OSF, DEC/ULTRIX, SUN/SunOS, SGI/IRIX vms ALPHA/VMS, VAX/VMS FTOOLS Version 3.3 Summary: =========================== The FTOOLS have now been ported to Silicon Graphics workstations running IRIX. With the release of Perl5, most FTOOLS Perl scripts can be run on VMS machines (complete porting of all non-GUI scripts is planned). New tasks available: abc - Apply Barycentric Corrections to ROSAT event data. ascaexpo - Generate an exposure map for an ASCA observation. bct - Produce a Barycenter Correction Table from ROSAT orbit data bkg - Subtract a background from a binned light curve col2img - Converts a collimator response dataset to an image fvec2img - Create an image from a column of vectors hriexpmap - Creates exposure map for given ROSAT HRI observational dataset hrifilt - Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file modalid - Print the space craft modal configuration (ASCA) perdgrm - Adds a sine curve and/or pulse-profile to a light curve. (XTE) sky2xy - Transform from sky to pixel coordinates using WCS keywords src2pha - Creates a PHA file from specified extensions in a ROSAT src file xy2sky - Transform from pixel to sky coordinates using WCS keywords XSELECT version 1.3 summary: ============================ New Commands: * SISPI this will fill the PI column for SIS BRIGHT data. This command is run automatically as a part of FAINT, so there is no reason to run it on FAINT data, but you can. Bug Fixes: * Sometimes Xselect would use the original data rather than the appropriate product events file. This might cause the effects of SELECT EVENTS to get lost. This is now fixed. * The ROSAT support is more robust. New Features: * The default energy column for the ASCA SIS instruments is now PI ROSAT FTOOLS News ============================ New tools: hrifilt - Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file. The resultant makefilter file can be used to screen data using Xselect. hriexpmap - Creates exposure map for given ROSAT HRI observational dataset abc - Apply Barycentric Corrections to ROSAT event data. bct - Produce a Barycenter Correction Table from ROSAT orbit data. rosbary - script to do ROSAT barycentric correction This runs abc and bct together. src2pha - Creates a PHA file from specified extensions in an RDF src file. NOTE: There is a driver script to call this FTOOL, EXTPHA, type 'extpha' at your UNIX or DCL prompt and follow the directions. hiback - Script to create a qsrc file from an src file. It runs MKQSRC and adds a BKG_SUSP keyword to the output file as well. HEASARC FTOOLS News ============================= New features in GRPPHA: Users are now allowed to over-write the input file. This can be achieved by either setting the hidden Boolean parameter "clobber" to yes, or by making use of the "!"-convention whereby the output filename is preceded by an "!". A new "family" of command strings, DUMP, has been introduced. DUMP allows the user to write an ascii file containing the current settings, this file may be useful if the user wishes to apply the same settings in another GRPPHA run. Currently there are 3 possible commands: DUMP GROUPING, DUMP SYSTEMATICS and DUMP QUALITY. ***************************************************************************** To: irafusers@head-cfa.harvard.edu Subject: FTOOLS 3.2 Installation Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 15:37:33 EST From: "Wendy P. Roberts" FTOOLS 3.2 has been installed and compiled. The IRAF version can be accessed via IRAFX (setirafx). I will install the new version in IRAF (setiraf) in one week if there are no objections; until then, IRAF is running FTOOLS 3.0. To access the FTOOLS 3.2 host version: Add appropriate path - > set path = ($path /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.host) Make directories, if they don't already exist - > mkdir ~/myftools ~/myftools/pfiles ~/myftools/data Set environment variables - > setenv LOCPFILES ~/myftools/pfiles > setenv SYSPFILES /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.host > setenv PFILES "$LOCPFILES;$SYSPFILES" > setenv PFCLOBBER 1 The following documents may be found in /iraf/irafext2/ftools3.2: Develop.v3.2.ps.Z FITSIO.NOTES Release_notes_3.2 TechRef.v3.2.ps.Z Users.v3.2.ps Xselect_Users_Guide_10.ps.Z ======== Wendy Roberts Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics roberts@cfa.harvard.edu 60 Garden Street, MS 12 Phone: 617-495-7153 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~wendy/ ***************************************************************************** Subject: Re: ascascreen Cc: asca-users@head-cfa.harvard.edu In-Reply-To: Message from lpd@cfa271.harvard.edu (Larry David) of "Wed, 16 Nov 1994 16:40:18 -0500." <9411162140.AA03402@cfa271.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:37:47 EST From: "Wendy P. Roberts" > > Hi, > > Has anybody found the new tasks ascascreen or tkascascreen > in ftools 3.2? > > Larry > cfa205-901: ls /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl Tkascascreen.def fix_rev0_pha* pconfig* ascascreen* interface.pl tkascascreen@ extpha* mk_allevt* tkinterface.pl find_perl.sh* parselog.pl* utils.pl >From the Installation Guide: New to the FTOOLS 3.2 release is a suit of PERL scripts. . . The FTOOLS distribution includes a bin.perl directory where these scripts reside after the FTOOLS build is complete. >From the Users Guide: In order to use the new PERL scripts found in the bin.perl directory, you must add the directory to your PATH environment variable. So you will need to add: /iraf/irafext2/ftools/bin.perl to your PATH. *****************************************************************************