PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = "2004-01-13; J. Diaz del Rio (ESA). v1.0" RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII PUBLICATION_DATE = 1994-12-31 NOTE = "Description of contents in the SOFTWARE subdirectory." END_OBJECT = TEXT END ***** File SOFTINFO.TXT This information file describes the SOFTWARE directory, which contains source and executable code which should be of use to the IHW Archive user. The SOFTWARE directory is divided into subdirectories according to specific function or program, except for a general category of utilities. Source code (as ASCII fixed length text), binaries, or both may be included. The IMDISP subdirectory contains software to display the image and spectral data contained on the IHW CD-ROMs; this software, provided by PDS/JPL and improved by outside users, works only in the PC MS-DOS environment. The FTB subdirectory contains software to browse FITS Tables; this software, provided by the Astronomical Data Center (ADC) of the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC, at NASA/GSFC), runs only in the VAX/VMS environment. The UTILS subdirectory contains software to join or separate FITS headers and datafiles into true FITS byte streams; editors do not easily work with byte streams. This code runs in an MS-DOS environment, and was provided by IHW Large-Scale Phenomena Discipline at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. In this dataset, the original data, in FITS format, have been split into two parts, a FITS header with the extension .HDR and the actual data with the extensions .TBL, and archived in the EXTRAS directory. These FITS formated data have been converted into PDS format and archived in the DATA directory.The following instructions can be used to create true FITS files from the separate pieces under various operating systems. 1. Unix operating system. cat filename.hdr filename.img > ~/filename.fit cat filename.hdr filename.tab > ~/filename.fit and so on for each type of data. 2. VMS operating system. copy filenam1.hdr,filenam2.tab disk$name:[rootname]filename.fit copy filenam1.hdr,filenam2.img disk$name:[rootname]filename.fit (alphabetical order is the header file and then data file, e.g., .hdr .img) 3. MS DOS operating system. copy filename.hdr /b + filename.img /a d:\filename.fit copy filename.hdr /b + filename.tab /a d:\filename.fit (the switches for /b indicate no end of file and /a for an end of file) 4. Macintosh operating system. Use a utility that lets you join (or concatenate) any number of files in a single chunk. (Such a program is "Chunkjoiner", available as shareware from Fabrizio Oddone which was found at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Goodies server selected through Appleshare and MAC network support, after logging into the MAC info center as Guest. It works with data forks and can launch from a CDROM as well. It operates under System 7.)