• 2014A

Starlink Software Collection - Hikianalia Release Notes

General

• 64-bit integer data type supported.

New Applications

Changes to Applications

ATOOLS

* Added task ASTSPHMAP to create a SphMap. for transforming from three-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinates into a two-dimensional spherical co-ordinate system.

CONVERT

* Can process 64-bit integer data in ASCII2NDF, DA2NDF, FITS2NDF, NDF2ASCII, NDF2DA, NDF2FITS, NDF2UNF, and UNF2NDF.

GAIA

KAPPA

* New applications:

• CONFIGECHO reports the value of a configuration parameter be it in a text file or the history of an NDF. While it is mostly intended for scripting it can also display the configuration-parameter differences between the two sources.
• NDFECHO expands a given group expression into an explicit list of NDF names, and reports a specified subset thereof.

* Modified commands:

• CHANMAP, COLLAPSE, and MSTATS have four new estimators, which produce the fraction/count of good/bad pixel values.
• NORMALSIZE permits normalisation against a single row or column when comparing two-dimensional NDFs through a new boolean parameter called LOOP.
• PARGET has a new boolean parameter called VECTOR, which defines the format used to present vector parameters.
• ROTATE estimates north at the centre of the array not at the first corner.
• WCSADD offers control of the transfer of set attributes from the basis Frame to the new Frame through a new boleean parameter called TRANSFER.
• WCSREMOVE can remove Frames specified by name as well as by index.

ORAC-DR

See http://www.oracdr.org/oracdr/ChangeLog

SCB

SCB is moving to obsolete and will not be installed by default.

SMURF

SPLAT

Changes to Libraries

ARY

AST

HDS

KAPLIBS

NDF

NDG

• The structure used to hold Provenance information has been changed. It now occupies much less disk space and is much faster to read and write.