AO local software Guide

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Astro specific

The Digitized Sky Survey

The Guide Star Catalog

Our local IRAF installation

IDL

IDL Manuals

Note that these are available in a more up-to-date version on-line from within IDL---use the "?" command.

Good old IDL help

Note that the old (IDL 3) style help (which help for the IDL Astronomical User Library) is available in IDL 4, with the command WIDGET_OLH.

Contents of IDL Astronomical User Library.

These very useful routines are implemented in our local IDL installation. If you want to look at the routines, or check which version is the current one, go to IDL Astronomical User Library Directory. IDL online help has been installed for all of these routines.

Robertoh's IDL User Library (directory and userguide)

A Wavelet Library

Silicon Graphics

How to use gscan to scan images

NAG Explorer Documentation (at NCSA and NAG)

SGI opimization material for the R8000

LaTeX and friends

LaTeX2HTML manual (version 96.1) or Home Page

LaTeX2HTML translates a LaTeX document into nested HTML documents, ready to put on the Web. It very easy to use, try it!

LaTeX hypertext help, introduction or table of contents

BibTeX hypertext help, introduction or entry types

World Wide Web

Netscape

Netscape is the web browser of choice at AO. It is able to handle a number of different types of data: still images, sounds, movies, 3D objects, and more. You can test whether your Netscape on your machine can do all that by visiting the MIME test page. If you find something not working, please let [email protected] know.

AOLpress

AmericaOnLines HTML editor, is available on the SGIs and on the Solaris hosts, as aolpress (or gnnpress).  Try it out!

Icons available at AO

General

NBIfAFG software distribution with preliminary introduction (restricted)

NORDITA and TAC bug reports