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IRAF Update (1Sep93)
(from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 35, 1 September 1993)

Work is nearing completion on the V2.10.3 patch release of IRAF. As
this Newsletter goes to press, V2.10.3 is being installed internally
within NOAO and at selected beta test sites to undergo user testing
prior to the public release. Details about the V2.10.3 release and the
X11 support package, which will be released at the same time, were
presented in the last issue of the NOAO Newsletter.

IRAF V2.10 distributions for three additional platforms were released
in May and June. The VAX/VMS upgrade to V2.10 was completed along with
an extensively revised and updated installation and site manager's
guide. The new version of VMS/IRAF includes major enhancements to
support networking and tape drive access on VMS systems.  HPUX/IRAF
V2.10.2 was released for the Series 700 and 800 HP-Apollo workstations.
IRAF V2.10.2 for the Macintosh running A/UX (a new port) was released
in early May. This brings to a conclusion the initial round of ports
and upgrades planned when IRAF V2.10 was released last summer.

The IRAF port to the SunSoft Solaris operating system is the next
scheduled port. This project will go forward this summer when the X11
and GUI development work is completed and when testing of the V2.10.3
release is a bit further along. Other IRAF ports currently planned
include ports to the DEC Alpha platform under OSF and VMS, and a port
to the Intel (PC) platform running some still to be determined version
of UNIX.

The X11 and GUI project and the V2.10.3 release will provide many new
or upgraded tasks and other software. Most of our efforts currently are
going into the preparation of this software. This software, and the new
IRAF mail network, will be the topic of the next IRAF Newsletter which
will be mailed when V2.10.3 is ready for distribution.

The IRAF group will be attending the Astronomical Data Analysis
Software and Systems Conference in Victoria in October (see the
accompanying article in this section of the Newsletter). The new IRAF
software being developed for the V2.10.3 release will be demonstrated
throughout the Conference. Please drop by and say hello if you are
there.

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

Doug Tody, Jeannette Barnes

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