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IRAF Update (1Dec92)
(from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 32, 1 December 1992)

Several V2.10.1 platform upgrades were completed during the summer
months and released for distribution in early September; these included
upgrades for the Sun 386i (this will be the last IRAF release for this
platform), for Decstation Ultrix, for VAX Ultrix, and for the SGI.  All
of these are available in the IRAF network archive now. The first
release of IRAF for the IBM RS/6000, running under AIX Version 3.2, was
completed in late October and is being prepared for distribution as
this Newsletter goes to press. The VMS/IRAF V2.10.1 upgrade and the
IRAF port to the Macintosh running A/UX 3.0 have been completed, and
these systems are now in testing.  We expect both VMS/IRAF and Mac/IRAF
to be available later this year. The VMS/IRAF upgrade includes many
VMS-specific fixes and some major enhancements to the networking and
magtape support.

A few ports and upgrades are planned or being considered for the next
six months including Solaris 2.0 (Sun), MIPS, HP (pending a loaner from
the HP office), and DEC/Alpha (pending a loaner from the DEC office).

Work has begun on the X11 support package for IRAF. An early version of
the XGterm color graphics terminal emulator for X11 is now operational
and will be demonstrated at the ADASS software conference in Boston,
along with the rest of the X11 support package and lots of other new
IRAF software. We currently plan to release this host level package
early next year.

Frank Valdes has written an add-on package for searching the text copy
of the ADC CD-ROM catalogues, a new task Specfocus for helping focus
spectrographs, and some prototype IRAF tasks for rendering RGB color
images.  Lindsey Davis has completed the integration of Peter Stetson's
DAOPHOT II algorithms into the IRAF version of DAOPHOT. Testing of the
new package is now in progress. Mike Fitzpatrick is finishing up a
package of software tools for SPP program development. Dyer Lytle is
working on transferring two large solar (NSO) archives from magnetic
tape to CD-ROM, using our new write once CD-ROM unit. Rob Seaman is now
working full time on ICE support and development, and has completed a
facility for viewing satellite weather pictures on workstations, e.g.
while observing on the mountain. Suzanne Jacoby continues her work in
system and site support.

The IRAF project plans to have an IRAF demo at the AAS in Phoenix in
January 1993. We look forward to seeing many of our IRAF users at this
meeting-- please stop by and say hello and let us know if you have any
questions or concerns.  We will be demonstrating some of the latest
IRAF software as well.

For further information about the IRAF project, please contact
Jeannette Barnes, Central Computer Services.

Doug Tody, Jeannette Barnes

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