| JHU/APL library update [message #1142] |
Mon, 19 July 1993 15:34 |
sterner
Messages: 106
Registered: February 1991
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JHU/APL IDL anonymous ftp site update notice
fermi.jhuapl.edu IDL library ftp site description
Purpose of this ftp site
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This ftp site contains several JHU/APL IDL libraries. The previous
single library has been divided into 3 (the two new libraries are
still small). Some new routines have been added and some old ones
have been dropped. The latest update was made on 19 July, 1993.
The library routines fall into the following broad categories:
Text Files, Text strings, Date & time routines, Information,
Plotting/Graphics, Imaging, Array processing, Math, Programming,
Library maintenance and documentation, and Miscellanious.
Accessing the ftp site (Make sure you use ftp, not telnet)
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ftp 128.244.147.18 (fermi.jhuapl.edu)
For Name type: anonymous
For Password enter: your email address (ex: sterner@tesla.jhuapl.edu).
Change directory by typing: cd pub/idl
To get a file type: get filename
When finished type: bye.
Get the ascii file README (~5.6k byte) for a guide to this ftp site.
You may also want to get the one line description file cat.one (~26kb).
What's New
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The ftp site computer has been moved to nansen. Fermi is an older Sun
and is no longer under maintenance contract. Nansen is an HP 7/35.
The new site is expected to be stable for a number of years.
Fermi is an alias for nansen and may be used as before.
The directory structure of the ftp site has been slightly modified to
bring it more in line with traditional anonymous ftp sites.
There are a number of bug fixes and enhancements to old routines. New
routines have been added. A few obsolete routines have been dropped,
some due to additions to the language itself.
The previous library (idlusr) has been divided. Less general routines
(such as routines to do mortgage calculations, redshift to distance
conversions, room layout sheets with paper doll furniture, ...) have
been moved to a second library (idlusr2).
One of the new libraries (idldoc) provides tools to help you maintain
your own local libraries. This library includes a librarian that I
wrote to maintain the ftp site libraries and other local libraries.
It needs a fast unix machine to work well and also requires a strict
adherence to a specified format of builtin help. I suspect it will not
be widely used, mostly because software documentation usually has a low
priority.
A shell script is provided (liner) to search one line description files
given several keywords. This lets you find a routine if you know pretty
much what it does but don't know its name. You can set up your own one
line description files and include them in the search (the librarian will
automatically keep these up to date if you use it).
Ray Sterner sterner@tesla.jhuapl.edu
Johns Hopkins University North latitude 39.16 degrees.
Applied Physics Laboratory West longitude 76.90 degrees.
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
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