path: root/doc/notes.v29

System Notes File for IRAF Version 2.9.
Begun 9 July 1989.
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doc/notes.v28 +
local/notes.v29 +
unix/hlib/motd
unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def
vms/hlib/motd
vms/hlib/zzsetenv.def
	Switched IRAFX development systems to version 2.9.  (7/9)

unix/os/zfiobf.c
unix/os/zfiotx.c
	Changed a couple of <sys/fcntl.h> to <fcntl.h>.  (7/9)

unix/as.vax/*
	Replaced directory by version from BSD/IRAF (carina).  (7/9)

dev/hosts
	Changed the bin in the pegasus entry to bin.i386.  (7/9)

dev/graphcap
	In the process of updating carina I discovered another set of
	dpp/psdump entries in graphcap; modified as was done for the termcap
	entries a while back.  (7/10)

doc/bugs.v25 +
local/bugs.log
	Archived the old V2.5-V2.7 buglog in doc and started a new buglog
	for V2.8.  (7/14)

doc/suniraf.ms
doc/sunsmg.ms +
	Installed all new Sun/IRAF installation and site manager's guides.
	(7/21)

doc/vmsiraf.ms -> vmsiraf.ms.v25
doc/vmsiraf.ms
	Installed new v2.8 VMS/IRAF combined installation & site manager's
	guide.  (7/25 SRo)

doc/unixiraf.ms
	Fixed a couple of typos: {IS,NS}.SOS4.GEN -> {IS,NS}.PORT.GEN.  (7/26)

doc/ports/notes.mips
	Saved a copy of the notes file for the DECstation (MIPS cpu) port.
	(7/26)

dev/devices [tucana only]
	Replaced missing cartridge drive entries (old devices had July 24
	date).  (8/7 SRo)

unix/boot/spp/xpp/xppcode.c
	Rewrote the HMS routine in this file, to use integer rather than
	floating point to perform the HMS to decimal floating translation.
	This appears to have been the only floating point code in the HSI,
	and we don't want any floating in the HSI if it can be avoided. (8/8)

unix/hlib/buglog.csh
	Changed the default system to V2.8.  (8/9)

unix/hlib/extern.pkg	[orion]
	Uncommented stsdas stuff.  (8/9 SRo)

unix/hlib/extern.pkg	[orion]
	Added rv package, currently pointing to /tucana/u2/fitz/...;
	this is a temporary measure.  (8/11 SRo)

unix/hlib/install
	Added $host/reboot to the list of files for which execute permission
	is required.  (8/15)

doc/unixsmg.ms +
doc/bsdiraf.ms +
doc/v28revs.ms +
	Added the source for the UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide to doc.  (8/16)
	Installed the BSD IRAF Installation Guide in doc.  (8/17)
	Installed the V2.8 revisions summary.  (8/17)

dev/hosts    [orion]
	Changed the entry for pegasus to point to `.../bin.i386/...',
	not just `.../bin/...'.  Must have happened when system was
	made generic.  (8/31 RS)

/local/iraf/unix/bin.mc68020/alloc.e
	Changed ownership to root, though at present this is not necessary
	as there are no magtape drives on the Sun-3 complex hosted by orion
	disks.  Argo was reporting the error message must change ownership
	to root for alloc.e when a user logged onto argo tried to alloc mta
	(user should have been using orion!mta).  Curiously, pictor, also
	using same hbin, simply reports 'cannot allocate device', the usual
	message when the drive does not exist.  (9/1 SRo)

unix/hlib/mkfloat.csh
	Replaced by the version developed for Convex/IRAF, which has the
	following features:
	1. RM can no longer be called to deleted a null list of files.
	2. A call to RMBIN was omitted, making the script run about twice
	as fast.  (9/4)

-------------
Updated the f68881, ffpa, and sparc binaries on tucana (sparc update still
in progress).  There was something wrong with some of the binaries, e.g.,
some of the objects were missing from the bin.ffpa OBJS.arc - maybe someone
accidentally deleted these when attempting to change architectures.  (9/4)
Completed tucana (irafx) bin.sparc update.  (9/5)

sys/imio/iki/qpf/qpfaccess.x
	Would supply a missing .qp extension automatically when called with
	mode NEW_IMAGE or NEW_COPY.  This was inconsistent with the
	specification of an image access routine as defined by IKI, and would
	cause IMACCESS to fail when called to test the legality of an object
	name not containing an extension.
	1. Modified to return NO if called with an object name with no
	extension and one of the NEW_ access modes.
	2. If called with an access mode other than NEW_xxx and no extension
	is supplied, and an image with extension .qp exists, will now output
	the .qp extension in the EXTN argument.  This was another minor
	deviation from the IKI specification.  (9/5)

dev/graphcap
	Corrected the "vapl" (generic laserwriter printer queue for VMS)
	entry:  there was an "irafhlib:sgiqueue.com", which needed to have
	the ":" as "\072".  (9/8 SRo)

vms/hlib/libcalcomp.a		[iraf, irafx]
vms/bin/x_calcomp.e		[iraf, irafx]
	Added calcomp libraries to hlib on draco and relinked the calcomp
	graphics kernel to accommodate some user requests (USE_CALCOMP is
	still set to NO in mkpkg.inc, as it should be for distribution).
	Had to link by hand with "-z" to avoid fatal linker conflicts with
	the C runtime library, which is used in the hacked kpno version of the
	calcomp library; a user site with a standard calcomp library probably
	would not have this problem.  (9/13 SRo)

doc/bsdiraf.ms
	Fixed error in example showing how to make a symbolic link to
	$iraf/bin.vax.  (9/13)

sys/fmio/fmfcache.x
	Modified to close and reopen an lfile if already open, and accessed
	with a mode requiring write permssion and lfile is currently opened
	read only.  (9/14)

sys/qpoe/qpgpar.x
sys/qpoe/qpppar.x
	These routines use a static data array PVAL as intermediate storage
	for the parameter value, returning a pointer to this buffer to the
	calling program.  Misalignment would occur when reading or writing
	values of type DOUBLE if the PVAL buffer was not double aligned.
	Double alignment of a statically allocated buffer cannot be guaranteed
	portably.  The solution was to make the buffer 1 double larger,
	compute a char pointer to pval[2], then double align this pointer.
	(9/16)

sys/qpoe/qpsizeof.x
	Fixed a typo in the procedure header comment.  (9/16)

sys/qpoe/qpppar.x
sys/qpoe/qpiowb.x
	Added a QP_MODIFIED(qp)=YES in a couple of places to ensure that
	the QPOE file header is marked for updating.  (9/16)

unix/shlib/edsym.c
	Commented out the code which deletes "file.o" type symbols.
	It appears that deleting these may cause trouble for DBX.  (9/17)

-----------------
Did the first full bootstrap under SunOS 4.0.3, with no apparent problems.
Did a sysgen/relink of the f68881 binaries on tucana.  (9/20)

local/.login
	Cleaned up a bit, e.g., added a commented out version of "irafarch"
	for the Sun-4 and 386i (omits the FLOAT_OPTION), and commented out the
	call to irafarch for the Sun-3 (to avoid the possibility of it being
	set wrong).  (9/21)

sys/fio/getlline.x -> glongline.x
sys/fio/getlline.x +
	1. Changed the name of the source file for GETLONGLINE from getlline.x
	to glongline.x.  Modified the routine to reconstruct long lines broken
	by the SZ_LINE limit of getline.  If the text returned by getline is
	not newline terminated another line will be fetched, and so on until
	the original newline delimited line has been reconstructed.  The
	linenumber argument is not incremented until a newline delimited
	logical line has been reconstructed.

	2. Added a new routine GETLLINE, for get-logical-line.  This is like
	getlongline except that it does not do anything fancy, like skip
	comment lines or join lines with backslash continuation.  All it does
	is eliminate the SZ_LINE restriction when reading lines of text from
	a file.  Lines longer than SZ_LINE are reconstructed, returning the
	full newline delimited line to the caller.  (9/26)

sys/etc/main.x
	Modified the iraf main to use getlline rather than getline to read
	input lines, to allow reconstruction of very long lines of text.
	Note that this is independent from the use of backslash continuation
	to enter very long task invocation commands containing many arguments.
	The main advantage of getlline is that it allows task *arguments*
	that are longer than SZ_LINE.  (9/26)

hlib$extern.pkg   [pegasus]
	Changed the local package pathname to `/orion/local/kpnolocal/'
	from `/orion/u2/kpnolocal/', where it used to be.  (9/26 RLS)

--------------------
Updated tucana.f68881, irafx@draco.  (10/2)

/orion/local/stsdas/stsdas.cl
usr$2:[stsdas]stsdas.cl
usr$2:[stsdas.pkg.problems]newspr.temp
	Added comment about sending SPR's and contacting SDAS group for
	help to package header.  Copied orion version of newspr.temp to
	draco, as it was lacking there (shouldn't have been! - mystery).
	(10/4 SRo)

unix/shlib/mkshlib.csh
	1. Replaced a couple references to "unix/hlib" by "unix/bin.`mach`",
	to allowing linking the shared library regardless of which BIN
	directory the link unix/bin points to.
	2. Modified the command "cc medit.c -o medit.e" to include the
	-fsoft switch when compiled on mach=mc68020.  Otherwise, if the
	architecture were set to ffpa but there was no fpa on the host,
	the executable would fail to run.  (10/4)

unix/sun/fifo.c
	The FIFO program is a debug-server which emulates the DISPLAY/IMTOOL
	datastream, writing to a frame buffer implemented as an array in
	memory.  As the program executes all commands are logged to the
	stderr to provide a record of the server-client communications.
	Since the program does not use the window system, it can be run
	remotely on any node to test the fifo/datastream interface.

	1. Updated to the datastream protocol and fifo pipe semantics used
	by the V2.9 DISPLAY/ZFIOGD.
	2. Fleshed out the program a bit, to make it more useful as a
	datastream debugger, in particular added an interactive cursor
	capability.  The original version of the program was written mostly
	to debug fifo i/o.  (10/7)

-------------------
Updated tucana.{f68881,ffpa,sparc}.
Configured the first scientist workstation (bokchoy) to run irafx.
Added entries for all the scientist workstations to the iraf dev$hosts
file on all major iraf server nodes.  (10/7)

sys/etc/envgetd.x
	Fixed a typo: the variable dval, which should be of type double,
	was inadvertently declared as int.  (10/7)

dev/termcap
dev/graphcap
	Added a site local additions section to the top of each file.
	In the graphcap, moved the host dependent plotter device name section
	to near the top of the file, since it has to be modified more often
	than what follows.  (10/7)

pkg/cl/bkg.c
sys/libc/csppstr.c
	Found and fixed another place where long environment strings would
	be truncated.  This was occuring when spawning a background job
	in the CL, due to a SZ_LINE buffer limitation in the CL bkg.c code,
	and an 128 char limitation in the LIBC routine c_sppstr.c.
	Increased both buffer sizes to 1024 chars.  (10/7)

unix/hlib/strip.iraf
	Fixed a typo iraf$bin.68881/OBJS.arc -> iraf$bin.f68881/OBJS.arc.
	Added entries for sparc and i386.  (10/12)

unix/boot/spp/xc.hlp
unix/boot/mkpkg/mkpkg.hlp
	Added documentation for the "-p pkgname" flag.  (10/16)

unix/hlib/buglog.csh
	Modified to add a blank line between the BUG: and STATUS: fields
	of the buglog entry to improve readibility, since these sections
	are often large, multiline paragraphs.  (10/19)

unix/os/zgcmdl.c
	This routine uses a highly system dependent (BSD43) technique,
	depending upon the layout of argc/argv/environ in process memory,
	to reconstruct the argument list of the process.  This can fail
	on systems that don't lay out variables in the assumed order.
	Accordingly, code was added (for systems that define BSDUNIX in
	<iraf.h>) to import the global variables xargc/xargv, defined by
	the BSD routine getarg(3), and use these to reconstruct the argument
	list.  The variables must be present in an object or library
	(normally libU77.a) for processes to link successfully.

	The variables are initialized to argc/argv by a Fortran main.
	If xargv is zero when ZGCMDL is called, the old scheme will be used
	to try to locate the process argv (hence C programs that don't
	initialize xargc/xargv should still run).  This scheme is still
	not ideal as it is implementation dependent, but is better than
	what was being done previously.  (10/20)

	NOTE - zmain.c should possibly also be updated to initialize or
	define and initialize xargc/xargv, however due to complications
	having to do with the shared library (global variables are tricky)
	I am going to hold off on this.  ZGCMDL should continue to work
	from SPP programs (which don't initialize xargv) as it has in the
	past.

dev/hostlogin
	Expanded on the comments somewhat.  (10/20)

dev/hosts	[orion, tucana, draco]
	Changed .f68881 to .sparc in irafks.e pathname for pictor, now
	a sparcstation.  (10/24 SRo)

vms/gdev/sgidev/sgi2vhpp.for	[irafx only]
	Added a declaration integer for function str_len in module
	parse_command (bug discovered by j.eisenhamer at ucla).  (10/27 SRo)

dev/pix.imh
dev/pix.pix			[vms/iraf]
	Somehow the standard test image in VMS/IRAF got its file type
	changed to Stream_LF, instead of fixed 512 byte records.  Restored
	to its normal state by doing an imcopy/imdel/imren.  (11/1)

sys/osb/bitfields.c
	Corrected a misstatement in a comment in BITUPK.  (11/4)

dev/termcap
	Changed the names "gterm-nqs", "g-lpr", and "g-enscript" to omit
	the minus.  (11/10)

unix/boot/generic/tok.l
	The generic preprocessor would translate symbols such as "FOO_PIXEL",
	as, e.g., "FOO_int", making it awkward to manipulate generic macro
	definitions in applications code.  The translator was modified to
	replace the string "PIXEL" occurring as part of an upper case
	identifier, as the type name in upper case.  (11/11)

lib/mii.h
sys/etc/miiread.gx
sys/etc/miiwrite.gx
sys/etc/mkpkg
sys/etc/gen/		+
sys/osb/miilen.x
sys/osb/miinelem.x
sys/osb/miipak.x
sys/osb/miipak16.x
sys/osb/miipak32.x
sys/osb/miipak8.x
sys/osb/miipakd.x	+
sys/osb/miipakr.x	+
sys/osb/miipksize.x
sys/osb/miiupk.x
sys/osb/miiupk16.x
sys/osb/miiupk32.x
sys/osb/miiupk8.x
sys/osb/miiupkd.x	+
sys/osb/miiupkr.x	+
sys/osb/mkpkg
	Added support for single and double precision IEEE floating to the
	MII interface.  The new datatypes are MII_REAL and MII_DOUBLE,
	as defined in <mii.h>.  The new routines miipak[rd] and miiupk[rd]
	convert to and from the native floating point format and the
	machine independent IEEE (non byte swapped) format.  (11/11)

sys/osb/mkpkg
sys/osb/ieee.gx		+
sys/osb/bswap8.c	+
unix/hlib/mach.h
unix/hlib/libc/knames.h
	Add support for low level IEEE/native floating point conversions to
	the host interface.

	1. The following definitions were added to <mach.h>:

		IEEE_SWAP4	byte swapping required for 32 bit IEEE
		IEEE_SWAP8	byte swapping required for 64 bit IEEE
		IEEE_USED	local host uses IEEE format

	2. The following conversion primitives were added to OSB:

	         ieepak[rd] (datum)
	         ieeupk[rd] (datum)
		ieevpak[rd] (native, ieee, nelem)
		ieevupk[rd] (ieee, native, nelem)

	The first two routines handle scalar conversions, the second vectors.
	The routines in ieee.gx are the "portable" versions.  The "portable"
	solution it to merely copy the array - this works on any modern IEEE
	host.  If the local host does not use IEEE floating, a host specific
	version of this file should be written and placed on the MKPKG special
	file list, with the source in AS.

	3. Also added a new routine BSWAP8 to OSB, for swapping doubles.
	(11/11)

sys/imfort/imrnam.x
sys/imfort/imcrex.x
sys/imfort/imfmkpfn.x	+
sys/imfort/imemsg.x
sys/imfort/imfort.h
sys/imfort/mkpkg
sys/imfort/imdelx.x	+
sys/imfort/imdele.x
sys/imfort/imfparse.x
sys/imfort/oif.h
	A number of modifications and enhancements were made to IMFORT in
	order to fix the following bug.  In the original IMFORT, the pixel
	file was always placed in the same directory as the header hence no
	effort was made to ensure a unique pixel file name.  When support
	for specifying "imdir" was added, it became possible for images of
	the same name in different directories to reference pixel files in
	the same imdir, making pixel file name collisions possible.  In the
	event of a collision, the pixel file of the new image would clobber
	the old one, resulting in two images in different directories pointing
	to the same pixel file, a very dangerous situation.

	1. A new internal routine IMFMKPFN was added to determine a unique
	pixel file name in the current imdir.  IMCREX and IMRNAM were modified
	to use this, fixing the problem described above.

	2. Since the above change provides clobber checking for pixel files,
	it was necessary to add clobber checking for entire images at create
	or rename time (evidently the original interface did not provide this).
	Clobber is disabled by default, causing a nonzero IER to be returned
	in a IMCREA or IMRNAM operation if the new image already exists; the
	variable "clobber" may be defined in the user environment to permit
	new images to clobber existing ones (deleting both the header and
	pixel files).

	3. Examination of interlibrary object module references indicated that
	a limited amount of VOS filename mapping could be added without greatly
	increasing executable size or link time.  A call to vfn_translate was
	added in a couple of places to cause the root and extn fields of all
	image names to be escape sequence encoded.  This should fix the
	problems of mixed case image names and image names with embedded
	numeric fields (.0001 etc.) translating differently in IRAF and VMS
	(this is not a problem with UNIX since it is so similar to IRAF).

	4. A new routine IMDELX was added, which is an SPP version of IMDELE.
	5. Several new error codes and error messages were added.
	(11/28)

sys/imfort/tasks/tasks.cl	-
sys/imfort/tasks/tasks.unix	+
sys/imfort/tasks/tasks.vms	+
	Replaced the file "tasks.cl", which contains the host dependent
	CL task statements for the IMFORT test programs, by reasonably
	portable UNIX and VMS versions which can be used without modification
	on most IRAF hosts (for the others they will at least serve as
	useful examples).  The UNIX version requires that $iraf be defined
	in the host environment, the VMS version requires the logical IRAFDISK.
	(11/29)

unix/hlib/install
	Fixed a bug in the portion of INSTALL which updates the imtoolrc
	file.  If a local version of the file already exists, and it is
	different than the default iraf version, the old file is renamed
	to .OLD and replaced by the new version.  The problem was that the
	new file was being installed with MV rather than CP!  Hence, the
	first time this happened the correct file would be installed, but
	the source file would be removed from unix/sun.  The next time
	install was run the files would again be different (since the source
	file would be missing) and the old file would be moved to .OLD
	but not replaced, causing the imtoolrc to be removed from both
	the source directory and local/lib.  (12/1)

sys/fmio/zzdebug.x
	Added a new debug task mkfile, used to make zeroed lfiles of the
	indicated size in Kb.  (12/2)

lib/syserrmsg
sys/fmio/fmsync.x
sys/fmio/fmioextnd.x
sys/fmio/fmdebug.x
	Modified FMIO to improve the way datafile overflow is handled.
	The FMIO data structures impose a limit on the size of the datafile
	when the datafile is first created; the largest possible datafile
	depends upon the page size chosen and the number of page table index
	entries.  These may be specified by the user, but the default values
	of page=512bytes and maxpti=256 will yield a max datafile size of
	32 Mb, enough for most applications (ROSAT QPOE files have already
	exceeded this however).

	1. Previously, the datafile-too-large condition was detected only
	at datatype sync time, when the PTI was updated.  Added code to the
	lfile file driver to check for PTI overflow and return a file write
	error if this occurs while writing to an lfile.

	2. An effort was made to improve the recovery from such an error.
	Enough space is always reserved to permit a sync of the principal
	datafile data structures.  If a write to an lfile fills the datafile
	to capacity, a write error is return to FIO, and a FMIO error is
	posted so that a subsequent FM_CLOSE will complain about
	datafile-too-large, after syncing the datafile containing the
	truncated lfile.  No further writes to the datafile which try to
	extend an lfile will be possible, but it should still be possible
	to read the lfile, or rebuild it with a larger page size or whatever.
	(12/2)

unix/boot/spp/xpp/xpp.l
unix/boot/spp/xpp/xppcode.c
unix/boot/spp/xpp/decl.c
	Modified the preprocessor to add a statement to the executable body
	of every REAL or DOUBLE procedure to initialize the procedure value
	to zero upon procedure entry at runtime.  The problem is that on
	some systems (e.g., a Sun-4) if a procedure which returns a floating
	point function value exits without setting the function value, e.g.
	during error processing, the function value may be random garbage.
	In the case of a floating point function even a simple copy of the
	function value may result in a floating point exception, causing
	program termination, if the garbage value is not a legal floating
	point number.  This is despite the fact that the program may be
	perfectly correct in that it detects the error return and never uses
	the function value.  Having the preprocessor initialize the function
	value to zero is a simple solution to the problem which does not
	require any modifications to applications code, although there is a
	very slight performance penalty.

	In addition to modifying the compiler as indicated above, I recompiled
	all the floating point functions in the bin.sparc version of the VOS
	on tucana (use of which led to the above fix).  (12/3)

unix/hlib/libc/setjmp.h
	Uncommented the old #pragma undefined_control_flow(zsvjmp_), which
	again seems to be necessary for the CL on a Sun-4.  (12/3)

dev/hosts	[tucana, orion]
	Changed bin.sparc to bin.ffpa for new Sun3/160 node libra.  (12/6 SRo)

unix/os/zfiotx.c
	Modified to ignore the file write error which occurs when a process
	attempts to write to the terminal after the user has logged out.
	This would cause unix/iraf background jobs submitted without
	redirecting the output to die after the user logged out, if any
	program output occurred.  I could also have reopened the stdout and
	stderr on a text file in the user's home directory to save the output
	in the event that this error occurred, but it would seem that if the
	user wanted such output saved they would have redirected it to a file
	explicitly.  (12/9)

pkg/system/cmdstr.x
	This hidden system task, used by MKSCRIPT to construct command strings
	to build batch scripts, will abort if a task contains a parameter
	which does not have a value.  The error message which appears if this
	happens was modified to identify the task and parameter name causing
	the problem.  (12/11)

unix/os/alloc.c
	Made some modifications to make the task more secure.  (12/13)

gio/imdkern/ +
pkg/plot/plot.cl
pkg/plot/plot.hd
pkg/plot/plot.men
pkg/plot/imdkern.par +
pkg/plot/doc/imdkern.hlp +
dev/graphcap
	Installed a new GIO graphics kernel IMDKERN (prepared by Zolt Levay
	at STScI, by modifying the SGI kernel operating in bitmap mode).
	This kernel draws into the image display device frame buffer, using
	the IMD interface.  The new kernel is plot.imdkern.  Plots may be
	directed directly to the display device graphics overlay by
	specifying one of the logical graphics device "imd[wrgby]",
	(white/red/green/blue/yellow), or just "imd" (defaults to green).
	More control over the color is possible by running the kernel
	directly as a task.

	[...details to be added... system integration still in progress]
	(12/21)

pkg/plot/t_contour.x
pkg/plot/t_hafton.x
pkg/plot/doc/contour.hlp
pkg/plot/vport.x
	The following changes were made to the CONTOUR program.  These changes
	affect only the semantics of the "perimeter" and "fill" parameters
	and are disabled if the parameters have their default values (draw
	perimeter, don't fill).

	1. If perimeter drawing is disabled, no perimeter is drawn.  This
	seems logical, but previously, if perimeter drawing was disabled,
	the "crtpict" style perimeter was disabled, but the NCAR grid
	perimeter box was still drawn.
	2. If fill is enabled and perimeter drawing is disabled, and no user
	viewport is specified, the contour map is scaled to fill the entire
	device viewport, and all axis and plot labelling is disabled.  When
	used with the new IMDKERN gio kernel, this allows overlaying of
	contour plots on the image display.  (12/21)

dev/hosts
	Changed "f68881" to "ffpa" for octans entry, now that only the ffpa
	executables live on octans (to save space).  (12/26 SRo)

pkg/cl/config.h
	Increased the stack size from 20K to 32K.
	Increased the dictionary size from 40K to 128K.  (12/29)

sys/imio/db/imputd.x
	Modified this routine to use NDIGITS_DP-1 instead of NDIGITS_DP to
	format printed numbers with the format "%0.*g".  The machine precision
	estimate is only an estimate, and often trying to print that last
	digit results in making up garbage.  This causes numbers such as
	1.000000000000000001 to be printed when the actual number is 1.0.
	(12/31)

sys/imio/db/idbcard.x +
	Added a little package for reading the internal IMIO FITS header.
	This package is used in the WCS code and is not intended for use
	outside of the system code.  (12/31)

sys/mwcs/ +
	Installed the new VOS interface MWCS, or mini-WCS (world coordinate
	system).  This is a general interface for coordinate system 
	representation, management, and evaluation, for use both in 
	applications and as an embedded interface in system code.
	Although MWCS addresses the general WCS problem, several important
	problems were left unsolved, and a second major version of the
	interface is planned for the future.  MWCS is NOT regarded as a
	frozen VOS interface at this point.  (1/3/90)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stf.h
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfget.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfwfits.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrfits.x
	Modified the STF image kernel to preserve the comment field of
	PTYPEi cards when the FITS header is read and later rewritten to
	disk.

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfupdhdr.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrgpb.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfreblk.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrdhdr.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopix.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfnewim.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfaddpar.x
	Went through all the STF code and added ERRCHK statements where they
	were missing.  At least the files listed above were affected.  (1/4)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfwcs.x -
	Deleted the little WCS package used in the STF kernel.  This was
	used to apply the section transform to the WCS when making a newcopy
	image.  Since this function is now performed by IMIO using the more
	general MWCS package, it is no longer necessary to do this in the
	kernel.  (1/4)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfhdrextn.x -> stfhextn.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfmkpixfn.x -> stfmkpfn.x
	Renamed these files to shorten the file names.  (1/4)

sys/imio/iki/stf/mkpkg
sys/imio/iki/stf/stf.h
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopix.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfcopyf.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfwfits.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrdhdr.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfnewim.x
	The original STF code would build the FITS "user area" of the header
	by writing out the GPB (group parameter block) cards, marking the
	size of the GPB area, then writing the contents of the old user area
	or FITS header.  When the header was later updated the GPB cards would
	be read to get any new values, then the cards following the GPB area
	would be output to the image header.  This approach turned out to
	have the following problems.

	1. Since the size of the GPB area at the start of the user area was
	fixed at image open time, runtime edits of the header affecting this
	area, e.g., deleting of a GPB card, could in effect change the size
	of the GPB area, causing user cards to be lost.  This should not
	happen and would normally result in an error when trying to read the
	GPB card to update its value, but if a user card happened to redefine
	a GPB card, an incorrect value could result.  I don't know of any
	occasion where this happened, but it was possible.

	2. It was possible for user area cards to redefine GPB area cards.
	This is normally harmless since IMIO uses the first occurrence of
	a card, but could confuse the user.  The problem was particularly bad
	because in an image copy involving a format change such as STF -> OIF
	and later OIF -> STF, the GPB cards would become OIF user area cards
	in the first copy, appearing as duplicate cards in the OIF -> STF
	conversion.

	This problem was fixed by scrapping the idea of a fixed size FITS/GPB
	area at the beginning of the user area.  Instead, a filtering scheme
	is now used which can, e.g., copy the user cards while deleting any
	cards which redefine GPB area keywords.  The expense is about the same
	as before, as the FCOPYO operation, used to spool user cards and later
	copy them back to the user area, was replaced by a copy/filter
	operation (stf_copyfits) of comparable expense.  The order of non-GPB
	cards is never changed; any user defined GPB cards will be deleted
	and replaced by system generated cards at the beginning of the FITS
	header.  All references to the STF_SZGPBHDR field of the STF
	descriptor were deleted.

	In the process of fixing this I also discovered a large block of
	code in stf_opix which would make 5 passes through the entire header
	(two fcopyo operations and one strlen), but which was totally
	redundant since the stf_mergegpb code was deactivated some time ago.
	The whole mess was simply commented out for now.  (1/4)

sys/gio/ncarutil/conbd.f
sys/gio/ncarutil/conrec.f
	Increased the size of the contour work area (STLINE work area overflow
	bug) from 5000 to 20000.  (1/4)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfnewim.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrgpb.x
	1. In the process of testing the new STF code I discovered that the
	WCS in the first element of a new multigroup image is initialized to
	a pixel WCS, whereas subsequent groups are initialized to zero (the
	parameters are entered into the descriptor but do not describe any
	valid WCS).  I modified stfrgpb.x to set up the default pixel WCS
	in this case too.
	2. The default pixel WCS was modified to set CRVAL=CRPIX=0 rather
	than CRVAL=CRPIX=1 as before.  The two forms are equivalent, but
	zero is more consistent with MWCS practice.  (1/5)

sys/imio/iki/qpf/qpf.h
sys/imio/iki/qpf/qpfcopypar.x
sys/imio/iki/qpf/qpfwfilter.x +
sys/imio/iki/qpf/mkpkg
	1. Modified QPF to propagate any WCS information in the QPOE file to
	the image header.  The MWCS, stored in the QPOE header as a variable
	length binary array, is loaded into a MWCS descriptor and then "saved"
	in the image header as the standard set of FITS cards.
	2. Added code to QPF to record in the header the QPIO filter used to
	generate the image.  This is recorded as a series of FITS cards,
	however many it takes, of the form QPFILTnn, where the nn goes 01,
	02, etc.  (1/5)

sys/qpoe/README
sys/qpoe/qpoe.h
sys/qpoe/qpsavewcs.x +
sys/qpoe/qploadwcs.x +
sys/qpoe/qpiolwcs.x +
sys/qpoe/mkpkg
lib/syserr.h
lib/syserrmsg
	Added two new routines qp_[save|load]wcs to QPOE.  These are used to
	save or load a MWCS type world coordinate system in a QPOE variable
	length binary header parameter "qpwcs".  A QPOE file can contain any
	number of WCS parameters, e.g., each for a different physical system,
	but at present only "qpwcs" will be used by the system code, e.g.,
	QPF and IMIO.

		     qp_savewcs (qp, mw)
		mw = qp_loadwcs (qp)		# aborts if no WCS
	      mw = qpio_loadwcs (qpio)		# aborts if no WCS

	A new routine qpio_loadwcs was also added to QPIO.  This is like
	qp_loadwcs, except that it also sets up the Lterm of the WCS to
	reflect the current blocking factor and rect set for the QPIO
	descriptor.  The logical coordinate system of the resultant WCS
	will give the pixel coordinates of the defined rect.  Note that
	the physical system (event coordinates) and world system (e.g.,
	TAN projection) are not affected.

	It is qpio_loadwcs which is used by QPF to load the WCS for a QPOE
	file.  In this case the physical image matrix is described by the
	logical coordinate system, since the physical system for QPOE data
	is always event coordinates.  Any IMIO image section applied to a
	QPOE file opened under IMIO modifies the Lterm, so in such a case
	the Lterm is formed from the QPIO rect and blocking factor and the
	IMIO section as successive transformations, leaving the physical
	system unaffected and still referring to the original event coordinate
	system.  (1/5)

sys/mkpkg
sys/gio/mkpkg
	Added entries for the new IMD (GIO kernel) code, so that IMD will be
	automatically updated in a sysgen.  (1/6)

sys/imio/immaky.x
	Added code to this routine, called when a NEW_COPY image is created,
	to apply the section transform to the WCS of the new image (since the
	WCS itself is currently stored as data in the header it is automatically
	propagated).  This is the only place in IMIO which knows anything about
	MWCS.  Although the code added to IMIO is very simple (a mw_loadim on
	the old image followed by a mw_saveim in the new image), much of MWCS
	gets involved.  Since MWCS is not yet sufficiently well tested I set
	things up so that if "nomwcs" is defined in the user environment,
	the calls to MWCS are skipped.  Note that in any case, for OIF and
	STF images, MWCS is called only 1) in a NEW_COPY operation, 2) if the
	input image was opened with an image section.  For QPOE images, MWCS
	is called for every image open, but only if a WCS is stored in the
	QPOE file.  (1/6)

--------------------------
Updated f68881, ffpa, and sparc binaries on tucana.
Copied snapshot of V2.9 system to DECstation.
Started DECstation V2.9 full bootstrap and sysgen.  (1/6)

pkg/plot/t_graph.x
	This file contained a routine im_projection with the same name as as
	identical routine in file improject.x, causing multiple entries for
	the same routine in the in package library (caused a warning message
	from the MIPS compiler on the DECstation).  (1/7)

unix/hlib/mach.h
	Changed NDIGITS_DP from 17 to 16 (for IEEE double precision).  This
	corresponds to a mantissa of 52 bits (IEEE double uses an 11 bit
	exponent).  The value of 17 set a while back was not correct.  (1/20)

unix/hlib/iraf.h
	Increased the value of ARB to a larger "arbitrarily large value" (about
	1 billion; the max signed integer is about 2 billion).  This won't
	take affect globally until the entire system is recompiled, but this
	allows selective recompilation of objects for which the smaller value
	was a problem.  This change should be transparent, but will likely
	root out any errant programs that are using ARB improperly, e.g., to
	dimension a static array.  (1/28)

	Also manually recompiled the objects for a number of files in FMTIO,
	FIO, IMIO, etc., for the f68881, ffpa, pg, and sparc architectures
	on tucana, where a small ARB could unnecessarily limit the size of
	an operation.  A full sysgen will be needed eventually.

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrdhdr.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfreblk.x
	These files were setting IM_LENHDRMEM, the current image descriptor
	length minus the base descriptor, to the current header length plus
	space for 20 cards.  The problem was that this would override the
	max_lenuserarea specification, used to set the max header size at
	image open time.  The code was modified to reallocate the header
	only if more space is needed, thus allowing more than 20 cards to
	be dynamically added to an open STF image.  This also eliminates
	yet another full pass through the header, if the header gets copied
	in a realloc operation.  (1/28)

local/.suntools			[Sun/IRAF HSI]
local/.sunview
	Replaced the sample pathnames used to source the .login file by the
	path $home/.login.  When these were first set up I didn't think this
	worked, but evidently it does now.  (1/29)

pkg/lists/rimcursor.x
pkg/lists/rimcursor.par +
pkg/lists/doc/rimcursor.hlp
pkg/lists/lists.cl
pkg/lists/mkpkg
	The RIMCURSOR task was completely rewritten to add support for world
	coordinate systems.  Coordinates may be output in any WCS defined for
	the reference image.  Currently, this is not being done quite as it
	should be, since the image cursor read code (using libds) is an interim
	facility which differs from what is planned.  Nonetheless this should
	provide a useful tool for reading out image locations in world
	coordinates until integration of WCS support into the system is more
	complete.  (1/29)

sys/tty/ttygsize.x
	If the terminal device does not support the runtime screen size query,
	this routine would make a couple of ttygeti() calls to get the screen
	size from the termcap entry for the terminal.  This would effectively
	override the use of the environment variables ttynlines/ttyncols,
	or "stty nlines=NN" etc., to specify a screen size other than the
	default.  The ttygeti() calls were replaced by ttystati() calls to
	permit the user to override the termcap screen size defaults.  (1/29)

sys/tty/ttygdes.x
	Modified the defaults mechanism for querying the environment, termcap,
	etc., for the screen size at termcap entry open time.  The defaults
	are still much the same, i.e., the environment is used if the device
	being opened is the user terminal device, else the termcap entries
	are used if found, else the default screen size 24x80 is used.  The
	main change was to search the termcap if the environment variables
	are not defined (unlikely since they are in zzsetenv.def), and to avoid
	a possible error abort if li/co are not present in the termcap entry.
	This was not a functional change, the code is merely a bit more robust.
	(1/29)

unix/hlib/install
unix/hlib/mkmlist.csh
unix/hlib/mkiraf.csh
unix/hlib/buglog.csh
unix/hlib/mkfloat.csh
	Revised the "unalias" lists in these scripts to unalias more of the
	unix commands that users might possibly have redefined.  (1/31)

unix/sun/imtool.c
unix/sun/imtool.icon
unix/sun/gterm.icon
	1. Replaced the GTERM and IMTOOL icons by the latest creations.
	2. Modified the IMTOOL source to conditionally compile a cursor rop
	which avoids the famous "chicken scratch" bug on the SS1.  This option
	is the default for the sparc version of imtool, until the bug gets
	fixed (it is still present in sparcstations shipping today, under
	4.0.3).  (2/2)

sys/fmtio/strdic.x
	Modified slightly to optimize the dictionary string compare.  (2/3)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrdhdr.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrfits.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfctype.x +
sys/imio/iki/stf/mkpkg
sys/imio/iki/stf/stf.h
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
	The STF image kernel was optimized for the case where the same image
	is repeatedly read, as when successively accessing the individual
	images in a large group image.  This was done by adding a header file
	cache.  Whenever the kernel tries to read the FITS header of an STF
	image, it looks first in the internal STF header cache and uses the
	cached version if there is a cache entry for the given file, and the
	cached entry is up to date.  If the cached entry for a header file is
	valid the cache and disk versions are identical and the disk file need
	not be opened or read.  Modifying the disk version of a header file
	automatically invalidates the cache entry in all processes with an
	active header cache (by updating the file modify date).  Since a cache
	access is functionally equivalent to a header file read, the cache
	will speed up all types of image accesses, e.g., occasional access
	to the same image, and sequential access to all the elements of a group
	image, for both reads and writes (so long as the header file is not
	modified, forcing a cache slot reload).  The cache operates as an LRU
	cache with a fixed number of cache slots, by default 3.  The default
	number of slots may be overridden by defining "stfcache=<nslots>" in
	the user environment.  Due to the amount of memory required for the
	headers, there is a builtin limit of 5 cache slots per process.
	Setting stfcache to zero disables the cache.

	A profile of STF with the cache enabled shows that, for repeated
	immap calls on subimages of a single group format image, most of the
	cpu time is now consumed by the read group parameter block code.
	Image header keyword accesses, e.g. to define the GPB header entries,
	are still relatively expensive due to the sequential-FITS nature of
	the current imio/db code.  (2/3)

unix/bin.mc68020/bytmov.c
unix/bin.mc68020/amovs.c
unix/bin.mc68020/amovr.c
unix/bin.mc68020/amovl.c
unix/bin.mc68020/amovi.c
unix/bin.mc68020/amovd.c
unix/bin.mc68020/amovc.c
	Added an IF test to do nothing if the input and output arrays are
	the same (copy is a no-op).  (2/4)

---------------------
Begin full bootstrap and sysgen of V2.8 for tucana/f68881.  This is the first
full compile since a new version of the Sun Fortran compiler was installed
with SunOS 4.0.3.  (2/4)

sys/fmtio/patmatch.x
	There were several occurrences of assignments such as "cval = ARB"
	in this code, where CVAL is of type char.  This is illegal since ARB
	can be a large number, and the bug was found and flagged by the
	compiler now that ARB is larger than the max value of an integer*2
	char.  Changed the ARB to 0; it appears that the value is a mere
	placeholder, being filled in later by a real value at runtime, hence
	the value in the code is indeed arbitrary.  (2/4)

unix/hlib/mkpkg.sf.SUN3
	Added sys$gio/ncarutil/autograph/agstup.f to the list of files to be
	compiled with the optimizer turned off.  The f77 optimizer core dumps
	on this file.  (2/4)

lib/syserrmsg
	Added verbose error messages for FMIO, QPOE, and MWCS.  (2/4)

---------------------
Updated (incremental) sparc and ffpa binaries as well.
Snapshot of beta system made for STScI.  (2/5)
---------------------
Did a full sysgen (recompile) of the NOAO packages for SPARC.  (2/6)

sys/mwcs/wftan.x
	Modified to check for ra > 360, and subtract 360 if this occurs.  (2/7)

local/.forward -
unix/hlib/gripes.cl
	1. Deleted the .forward file in iraf/local.
	2. Modified GRIPES to attempt to send gripes to iraf via email to
	the internet or via span, depending upon the system.  (2/8)

sys/plio/README
sys/plio/mkpkg
sys/plio/plrio.x	+
sys/plio/plsectnc.x	+
sys/pmio/README
sys/pmio/mkpkg
sys/pmio/pmrio.x	+
sys/pmio/pmsectnc.x	+
	1. Added a new routine PL_SECTNOTCONST to PLIO and PMIO.  This is
	patterned after pl_sectnotempty(), but checks to see if the given
	mask section is constant valued, rather than zero.  If the section
	is constant valued the mask value assigned to the region is returned
	as an output argument.

	2. Added a new mini-package PLRIO, used to efficiently random access
	any 2D plane of an existing pixel list or image mask.  The mask is
	opened for random access on a special descriptor which incorporates
	a scaled, active 2D lookup table.  Most subsequent plr_getpix(plr,i,j)
	calls will return the given mask value directly from the table with
	very little overhead; only if the referenced pixel occurs in a region
	too complex to be described by a single table entry is the value
	computed by direct evaluation of the mask.  A special 2D binary
	recursive algorithm (using pl_sectnotconst above) with log2(N)
	performance is used to calculate the scaled lookup table.  These
	algorithms provide efficient table generation and random mask pixel
	access even for very large masks.  (2/10)

sys/qpoe/qpiogetev.x
sys/qpoe/qpioclose.x
	Modified qpio_getevents() to make use of PLRIO to randomly sample a
	region mask when performing event filtering of a nonindexed event list.
	The problem here is that in a nonindexed event list, events need
	not be sorted positionally, and successive events can have random
	coordinates (this is guaranteed to be the case, for example, in a
	time sorted QPOE file).  If a region mask is being used for extraction
	with such data, the mask must be evaluated to a single pixel for each
	event in the event list.  Since a large event list might contain
	10E6 events or more, some sort of lookup table is required for
	efficient extraction.  The old code was using a static lookup table,
	but this failed for ROSAT data, where a region mask is 8192 pixels
	square, requiring a 128Mb static lookup table!  By using the scaled
	active lookup table provided by PLRIO, we can provide comparable
	runtime efficiency (table generation is actually more efficient),
	using a table of only 256x256 or so.  (2/10)

sys/qpoe/qpexopen.x
sys/qpoe/qpioparse.x
lib/syserr.h
lib/syserrmsg
	1. QPIO_PARSE now checks that brackets, parenthesis, etc., match at
	the end of an expression, and takes an error exit if this is not the
	case.
	2. QPEX_OPEN now checks the error status of the QPEX expression
	compiler, and takes an error exit if any errors occurred during
	expression compilation (additional warning messages appear during
	compilation for each error encountered).  (2/10)

sys/qpoe/qpiogetev.x
	The event i/o code was not working at all for the case of indexed
	extraction, with a bounding box (rect) and a region mask.  The call
	to the mask code to determine if a line segment is empty had the
	endpoint of the segment set to the start point, hence was testing
	only a single pixel (column of the rect).  (2/11)

sys/plio/plupdate.x
sys/plio/plcmpress.x
sys/plio/zzdebug.x
	The following changes were made to fix the "PL_LLFREE inconsistent"
	warning seen when editing complex PLIO masks.

	1. The code in plcmpress.x which computes the space used by a mask
	was incorrect; this would cause the warning message to be printed
	even if the descriptor value of PL_LLFREE were correct.  The code was
	using LP_BLEN (the line list buffer length) to accumulate the mask
	length, rather than LP_LEN (the amount of words of the line buffer
	actually used to store the current line).
	2. There was a bug in plupdate.x which could cause PL_LLFREE to be
	computed incorrectly in certain cases.  When the reference count of
	a line buffer went to zero, causing the buffer to be freed, the entire
	buffer space was being added to the free space count, which was
	incorrect because any line buffer space unused at the time the
	reference count went to zero would already have been counted as free.
	3. Added a new debug task "scripts" to the PLIO zzdebug.x  This task
	is used to create drawing scripts for PLTEST, making it easier to
	test complex mask drawing operations.

	Both of these bugs reflected special cases that occur only when editing
	complex masks.  In the actual tests run, a test case of 1500 circle,
	box, and point region draws in a 1024sq mask, bug #1 did not show up
	until over 4000 line edits had occurred, and bug #2 did not show up
	until over 14000 line edits had been made.  (The final test, which
	ran to completion with no errors, involved 60,000 region draws or about
	3 million line edits).  (2/12)

sys/qpoe/QPOE.hlp
sys/qpoe/qpadd.gx		[INTERFACE CHANGE]
sys/qpoe/qpastr.x		[INTERFACE CHANGE]
sys/qpoe/README
	The calling sequences of the qp_add[bcsilrdx] and qp_astr routines,
	used to set the value of a header parameter while creating it if it
	does not already exist, were modified to add a COMMENT argument (the
	comment field of the parameter if it is created).  Although this is
	an interface change, few applications exist yet which use QPOE, and
	the few that have written have avoided use of the qp_add and qp_astr
	routines due to the inability to specify the comment field if the
	parameter is created.  (2/12)

sys/qpoe/mkpkg
sys/qpoe/gen/mkpkg
	While updating QPOE after the above change, I noticed that only
	gen/qpaddb.x was getting built due to omission of the other types in
	the mkpkg.  Added the mkpkg support for the missing types.  (I guess
	we don't have to worry about this interface change affecting any
	existing applications!).  (2/12)

------------------
sparc and f68881 binaries updated.
Beta test snapshot of V2.9 sent off to CFA.  (2/14)
STScI beta system updated.  (2/15)

imio/iki/stf/stfrgpb.x
	Modified the cannot group parameter block to suggest that if this
	occurs, it may be because there is no such group.  (2/15)

pkg/lists/rimcursor.par
pkg/lists/doc/rimcursor.hlp
	The default value of the "cursor" parameter (type *imcur) was changed
	to the null string.  (2/15)

sys/qpoe/qpio.h
sys/qpoe/qpiogetev.x
	The QPIO code was ignoring the region mask if the portion of the mask
	within the bounding box or rect (by default the full area) was empty.
	Modified to treat this, and the case of a null event list, as a
	special case which will cause all subsequent qpio_getevents calls on
	that QPIO descriptor to return immediately with EOF, without actually
	doing any i/o.  (2/16)

doc/ports/notes.convex +
	Added the notes on the Convex/IRAF port, which appear never to have
	been archived in this directory.  (2/16)

unix/hlib/fc.csh +
unix/hlib/login.cl
unix/hlib/install
	The task FC, a front end to XC used to compile host programs which
	may or may not use IMFORT, was modified to call an intermediate
	script hlib$fc.csh, rather than calling XC directly.  The purpose
	of the fc.csh script is to determine the current iraf architecture
	and add a command such as -/ffpa, -/f68881 etc. to the XC command
	line to ensure that the architecture of any objects compiled with
	the command will match that of the iraf architecture.  This is
	whatever is defined by IRAFARCH, else an appropriate architecture
	is selected.  There are potential problems with this approach, e.g.,
	if the user specifies a different architecture on the command line
	the task can get confused, but short of making more extensive host
	dependent changes to XC this is an easy way to make the IMFORT
	interface a bit more resistant to user confusion over multiple
	architectures, which will solve the problem for most users (the
	rest probably don't use FC anyway).  (2/16)

unix/hlib/mkiraf.csh
	MKIRAF now renames any old login.cl to login.cl.OLD before creating
	the new one, rather than clobbering the original file.  (2/16)

unix/boot/spp/xc.c
	The Sun/IRAF XC now searches -lU77 when linking a host program (-h
	switch).  (2/16)

unix/boot/spp/mkxc.sh
	The call to CC to compile and link XC was not using $HSI_CF.  (2/16)

unix/hlib/cl.csh
	Modified to define IRAFARCH if not already defined.  (2/16)

unix/hlib/mkfloat.csh
	1. Modified to use a compressed architecture save file OBJS.arc.Z.
	Will still work if an existing save file is not compressed.
	2. Will no longer make an empty OBJS.arc (.Z) file if there are no
	files to be saved, as when backing up the generic architecture.
	3. Modified the code which uses "tar -tv" to verify the save file
	to ignore directory name listings.  On some systems (Ultrix) TAR
	lists directories as archive members, even though only a filename
	list may have been used to generate the archive.  This makes a
	file list compare fail even if the archive is good.  (2/17)

noao/mkpkg
noao/lib/mkpkg.inc
noao/lib/mkpkg.sf.MIPS +
	Added support for the "mips" architecture (the DECstation).  (2/17)

local/notes.i386	-
doc/ports/notes.i386	+
	Moved notes on Sun386i port to doc/ports.  (2/17)

--------------------
Updated DS3100/IRAF to V2.9BETA.
Full bootstrap and sysgen-recompile.  (2/17)

sys/osb/ieee.gx
sys/osb/miipakr.x
sys/osb/miipakd.x
sys/osb/miiupkr.x
sys/osb/miiupkd.x
	The MII routines for IEEE to native floating point conversions were
	modified to assume that the IEEE conversion primitives handle byte
	swapping as part of the IEEE-native format conversion.  (2/17)

noao/lib/FC.mips +
noao/lib/mkpkg.sf.MIPS
	The MIPS Fortran compiler failed on a couple more large files in the
	NOAO sysgen-recompile.  This is a parser error, hence turning off the
	optimizer (or changing any other compiler switches) has no effect.
	The NOAO files currently affected by this bug are the following:

		dtoi$database.x
		digiphot$apphot/aplib/aprcursor1.x
		digiphot$apphot/aplib/apverify1.x

	When this problem occurred earlier my solution was to manually
	compile database.x and place the .o in noao$lib.  Since this approach
	is prone to error and there are now several files, I changed the
	special file list to use the new script FC.mips in noao$lib to
	automate the custom compile, e.g.:

	    $set   FC = "$(iraf)noao/lib/FC.mips"
	    $special "noao$imred/dtoi/":
		database.x    & "!(chmod +x $(FC); $(FC) database.x)"
		;
	    $special "noao$digiphot/apphot/aplib/":
		aprcursor1.x  & "!(chmod +x $(FC); $(FC) aprcursor1.x)"
		apverify1.x   & "!(chmod +x $(FC); $(FC) apverify1.x)"
		;

	The script FC.mips may be useful to send to users if this problem
	occurs elsewhere, e.g., in add-on packages.  Hopefully the bug will
	be fixed in the next release of the MIPS compilers.  (2/17)

noao/digiphot/apphot/qphot/mkpkg
	This mkpkg file had a bad special file list.  The same source file
	was listed twice, causing the object to be entered into the libpkg.a
	twice.  This resulted in a warning message from ranlib when the
	package was built on the DECstation.  The bug was actually harmless,
	since both objects were identical.  (2/17)

unix/x11 +			[DECstation/IRAF]
unix/x11/saoimage +
	Installed the latest version of SAOimage in the DECstation HSI.  (2/17)

------------------
DECstation update completed.  (2/17)

sys/fmio/fmfcache.x
	If an lfile was already open READ_ONLY in the FMIO cache, and an
	attempt was then made to open it APPEND, a no write perm error
	would result on the lfile.  The bug was that the code which checks
	to see if a file opened read only needs to be reopened with write
	perm was not checking for APPEND mode as one of the file modes
	requiring write perm.  (2/17)

sys/qpoe/qpmacro.x
	When opening a compiled macro save file and restoring the saved symbol
	table therein, qp_access() was not freeing the old symbol table,
	causing a sequence of qp_open/qp_close calls to gradually consume
	more memory.  (2/17)

pkg/cl/prcache.c
	The CL process cache code was modified to check the date of the
	executable file associated with a cached process whenever a task
	in that process is run.  If the modify date of the executable file
	is more recent than the time when the process was cached, the cache
	entry is automatically invalidated and the process is restarted
	(provided it is not actively being used).  This avoids the confusing
	situation where someone doing software development from within the
	iraf environment relinks a process, but then unknowingly tests the
	old process which is still in the cache.  (2/19)

pkg/cl/unop.c
	This code automatically prepares both real and integer versions of
	input operands as part of its standard preamble, regardless of which
	version is used for processing.  This could result in a numeric
	conversion exception on some machines if the input operand was real
	and the value was too large to coerce to an integer.  For the CL
	such an invalid conversion produces an INDEF, so the code was modified
	to check for very large real values and set the integer version to
	INDEFL if overflow occurs.  In most cases where this occurs it is
	likely that the integer version will never be used in any case.  (2/19)

sys/gio/gsetr.x
sys/imio/db/idbpstr.x
	These files contained the construct "[il]val = nint ([rd]val)", which
	could result in a numeric conversion exception if the real value were
	very large.  The solution was to delete the [il]val and instead use
	nint([rd]val) directly in the code.  (2/19)

sys/etc/environ.x
	Fixed an obscure bug in the system environment code.  When overwriting
	the value of an existing variable with reset, if the length of the
	new value string was exactly the right size (normally 21 chars for
	small value fields) the replacement value could write off the end of
	the allocated space by one char.  This would overwrite the E_NEXT
	field of the entry immediately following, in storage order, the entry
	being reset.  E_NEXT is the index of the next entry on the hash
	thread to which the entry being clobbered belongs.  For the typical
	iraf environment list which contains approximately as many entries
	as there are threads, most threads are either empty or have only a
	single element, hence E_NEXT is NULL.  When E_NEXT is overwritten it
	is overwritten with EOS, which is equivalent to NULL, so if the hash
	thread contains only a single value the problem will go unnoticed.
	If a non-null E_NEXT link is clobbered the thread is effectively
	truncated, causing the remaining entries on that thread to become
	invisible in further table lookups (i.e., the entries would become
	undefined).

	This was a serious bug since the environment code is fundamental to
	the system, but it is unlikely that the problem has been seen very
	often because 1) environment resets are relatively uncommon at the
	CL level, and normally involve items with short values strings like
	stdimage, 2) the replacement value would have to be exactly the right
	length, e.g., 21 chars, for an overwrite to occur, and 3) the entry
	following the entry being reset would have to have a nonnull thread
	link for the overwrite to make any difference.  (2/19)

sys/qpoe/qpadd.gx
sys/qpoe/qpastr.x
sys/qpoe/qppopen.x
	These routines were calling qp_addf() with a numeric datatype code
	(e.g., TY_INT) but the calling sequence requires a symbolic code,
	necessary in order to specify user defined types.  (2/20)

unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def
	Added an entry for the system logical directory MWCS.  (2/20)

sys/imio/db/idbcard.x
	The routine idb_nextcard(), called by the MWCS code to read a FITS
	image header, had a bug which could result in an infinite loop when
	a *nonblocked* image header (lines not all blocked to 80 chars)
	contained a blank line.  This bug was fixed, and I also made the
	end of header checking more robust, checking for a pointer beyond
	the end of data, as well as checking for EOS on the header area.
	Note that MWCS is not called during most image operations unless
	a NEW_COPY image is made from an image section of the input image,
	hence this bug would only be seen if 1) calling a task which makes
	a NEW_COPY image with an image section, 2) the image header of the
	input task is not blocked to 80 chars per line (not supposed to
	happen, but evidently it does occasionally), and 3) the header
	contains a blank line.  (2/20)

sys/etc/envgetb.x
	The operation of this operator in the case of a variable which exists
	but has no value string was not well defined.  false would be returned
	if the parameter did not exist, but false would also be returned if
	it existed but had no value string.  The routine will now return true
	if the parameter exists but has no value string, allowing the existence
	of the parameter in the environment to be used as a switch.  If a yes
	or no value is given, then that will be used instead to determine the
	boolean value.  (2/21)

sys/imio/immaky.x
	Modified to use envgetb() instead of envfind() to test for the
	environment switch "nomwcs", to be consistent with the planned use
	of an envgetb() test for nomwcs in the IMAGES tasks.  (2/21)

-----------------
V2.9BETA installed at CFA and updated to this point.  (2/21)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfnewim.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopix.x
	The STF descriptor was being reallocated in stf_newimage without
	updating the pointer to the STF descriptor in the image header.  (2/24)

sys/gio/gki/gkiprint.x
	Modified to print the marker width field in a PM_SET call.  (This is
	not used in any GIO kernel at present, but since it is a defined
	attribute it may as well be printed).  (2/24)

sys/etc/cnvdate.x
	Added an errchk for stropen.  (2/24)

pkg/images/geometry/t_blkrep.x
pkg/images/geometry/t_geotran.x
pkg/images/geometry/t_imshift.x
pkg/images/geometry/t_shiftlines.x
pkg/images/geometry/t_magnify.x
pkg/images/geometry/t_blkavg.x
pkg/images/geometry/t_imtrans.x
	The above IMAGES tasks were modified to call MWCS to modify the
	Lterm of the image coordinate system.  As a temporary insurance
	measure until MWCS can be fully tested, the code was written in
	such a way that the WCS update is skipped if "nomwcs" is defined
	in the iraf environment.  The "nomwcs" switch will be deleted
	in the next iraf release.  (2/24)

sys/fmtio/gargi.x
sys/fmtio/gargl.x
	These routines contained a construct such as "ival = dval" which
	would perform a blanket conversion from double to int.  There could
	result in a numeric exception if dval were INDEF or very large.
	The procedures were modified to check for these cases and explicitly
	set the output value to INDEF if such a case occurs.  (2/24)

sys/fmtio/dtoc.x
	Changed in a couple of places to replace several long(val) constructs
	by a single, precomputed lval variable, to guarantee that the value
	is the same in all cases.  (2/24)

sys/ki/kfsubd.x
	Added code to check for an error return from ZFGCWD and exit
	immediately with an error status return in this case.  (2/24)

pkg/plot/doc/implot.hlp
	Modified to include mention of the usage of the 'l' and 'c' colon
	commands to plot averages of lines and columns, e.g. ":l 30 40" to
	plot the average of lines 30 through 40.  (2/24)

vms/hlib/sgiqueue.com
	There were a number of lines in this file of the form

		print/que=foo/delete 'p2.foo'
	
	These were changed to the form

		print/que=foo/delete 'p2'.foo

	i.e., it is the 'p2' which must be quoted, since in DCL the function
	of the quotes is to perform variable substitution.  (2/24)

lib/sysruk.x
sys/etc/main.x
	1. In sysruk, the >6 char arguments "arglist_offset" and "interactive"
	were renamed to minimize the likelihood of a name mapping collision
	with the procedures in the same same file as the TASK statement.
	Also renamed the "eawarn" environment variable to avoid the suggestion
	that this is EA_WARN with a missing include <error.h>.
	2. Added aliases cd for CHDIR, and reset for SET.  chdir is somewhat
	of an anachronism these days, and it is nice if reset is recognized
	since one gets used to using it in the CL.  (2/25)

unix/hlib/iraf.h
unix/hlib/libc/spp.h
sys/clio/clgfil.x
sys/etc/prupdate.x
sys/etc/prenvset.x
sys/etc/prchdir.x
sys/etc/oscmd.x
sys/fmtio/clscan.x
sys/fmtio/fscan.x
sys/fmtio/scan.com
sys/ki/kienvreset.x
sys/libc/sprintf.c
sys/libc/printf.c
sys/libc/cungetl.c
sys/libc/cttset.c
sys/libc/csppstr.c
	Added a new global SPP define SZ_COMMAND (similar to SZ_FNAME, SZ_LINE,
	etc.) in iraf.h and libc/spp.h.  Modified all the VOS routines I could
	find which use large command buffers to make use of this new system
	parameter.  Also in fscan.x, replaced the getline() by a getlline()
	to allow for file lines longer than SZ_LINE.  (2/25)

unix/hlib/install
	1. The alloc.e code now checks the file mode to ensure that set-uid
	mode is set on the file.  (2/25)
	2. [more work to be done here...]

sys/etc/environ.h
sys/etc/environ.x
sys/etc/main.x
	1. Increased the default initial environment list size parameters
	and doubled the number of hash threads.  The new values are about
	right for the typical iraf environment list in the present system.
	2. In environ.x and main.x, replaced all getline() calls by getlline()
	reads into a SZ_COMMAND line buffer.  This is necessary to allow
	"set name = value" commands longer than SZ_LINE to be passed in via
	IPC from the CL.  (2/25)

pkg/system/help/help.h
pkg/system/help/t_hdbexamine.x
pkg/system/help/mkpkg
	1. hdbexamine had its own private definition of SZ_HELPDB; deleted
	and added an include for help.h.
	2. Increased the size of the helpdb buffers used within HELP to 1024
	chars.  (2/25)

sys/fmtio/fmt.com
sys/fmtio/fprntf.x
	Increased the size of the "format" buffer from SZ_LINE to SZ_OBUF
	(1024 currently).  The printf commands can be used for output like
	getline(), with any amount of data, and often the "format string" is
	mere data.  The code should probably be revised to scan the format
	string and immediately output data until the first % format specifier
	is encountered (to avoid the 1024 char limit, and for enhanced
	efficiency) but this was tricky enough that I did not want to risk
	it at this time.  (2/25)

sys/imio/db/idbcard.x
	There was another problem in the code used for headers with variable
	length cards (most headers are blocked 80 characters per card, or
	should be).  The idb_nextcard() routine would return a pointer to
	the \n preceeding a card, rather than to the first character of
	the card.  This was preventing MWCS from seeing any of the WCS
	cards in a header with an existing WCS, if the header happened
	to be nonblocked.  (2/26)

sys/mwcs/iwparray.x
sys/mwcs/mwsaveim.x
	1. Added an "index" argument to the internal routine iw_putarray,
	used to update array parameters in image headers, and modified
	mw_saveim() accordingly.  An index value of zero (match all indices)
	was being used when checking to see if a given header card existed
	to determine if, e.g., adding a card was necessary.  This could fail
	when updating an array parameter because then there can be multiple
	cards which differ only in the index.  The result was a message such
	as "image header parameter not found" when trying to update the value
	of an indexed card when 1) another card of the same type existed in
	the header, and 2) a card with the given index did not yet exist.

	2. Deletion of obsolete WCS cards following a header update was not
	working.  The code which checks the C_UPDATED flag to see if a
	card is to be preserved was referencing the wrong descriptor, causing
	the test to fail.  (2/26)

sys/qpoe/qpcopyf.x
	The loop which copies an array valued parameter in large chunks with
	qp_read/qp_write, was not incrementing the data offset in each pass
	through the loop.  This would only have affected copies of array
	parameters with greater than 8192 elements.  (2/26)

sys/qpoe/zzdebug.x
	Modified the HLIST task to output the lfile number and lfile offset
	of the stored parameter value, in addition to the information already
	output.  (2/26)

sys/fmio/fmfcache.x
	When opening an lfile in APPEND mode and the lfile was already in
	the file cache with write permission, a seek to EOF was not being
	performed.  (2/26)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfcopyf.x
	The stf_copyfits() procedure copies the user area (a series of FITS
	cards), optionally separating the cards into reserved or group
	parameter cards, which are generated and controlled by the program,
	and user cards.  The routine was handling cards defining GPB fields
	properly, but it turns out that the STF interface also defines the
	cards GROUPS, GCOUNT, PCOUNT, and PSIZE in the user area for the
	benefit of someone reading the header.  The result was that a NEW_COPY
	copy of an STF image would contain two copies of these four cards,
	since stf_wfits() explicitly outputs all GPB definition cards or
	other reserved FITS cards during a header update.  The fix was to
	modify the stf_copyfits() filter to recognize these four cards in
	addition to the GPB cards, and treat them the same way (e.g., omit
	them in a copy operation).  (2/27)

--------------------
f68881 and sparc binaries updated.
CFA and STScI upgraded to this point.  (2/27)

pkg/cl/builtin.c
sys/libc/cenvget.c
	Changed a couple of 512 byte buffers to use SZ_COMMAND.  (2/27)

sys/etc/envscan.x
	Increased the size of the input line buffer to SZ_COMMAND+SZ_LINE.
	This is because getlline() requires at least SZ_LINE of space at
	the end of the buffer for a read - to read the full SZ_COMMAND chars,
	an extra line of space is needed (or SZ_COMMAND should be redefined
	to be an integral multiple of SZ_LINE, but that is getting pretty
	tricky for something that just defines an arbitrary truncation point
	anyhow).  (2/27)

sys/etc/main.x
	1. Modified the error message "IRAF Main: Unknown task name" to include
	the name of the unknown task.
	2. Increased the size of the input buffer used in the main to 2048,
	to ensure that command truncation will not occur.  (2/27)

	I tested the system with a 980 char environment variable defined in
	extern.pkg.  With the above changes, most importantly the change to
	the main, everthing works fine.  Truncation will occur somewhere
	between 960-1024 chars with SZ_COMMAND set to 1024 (the 960 is the
	nearest multiple of SZ_LINE).  It was necessary to increase the
	size of the input command buffer used in the IRAF main to avoid
	command truncation, which causes loss of synchronization on the
	input command stream and a nasty "Unknown task name" error from
	the main (if this occurs during process startup, e.g. during
	environment initialization, the process is fried, and if the process
	is x_system.e you can't even login to the CL).  (2/27)

sys/fmtio/fpradv.x
	Escape sequences (\n etc.) embedded in the format string were not
	being processed correctly.  The sequences were being converted into
	escape characters but then the original character (\) was being
	output.  (2/27)

unix/os/zzstrt.c
	The code which maps the shared image into memory during process
	startup could fail on the sparcstation with a segmentation violation
	due to an unmapped page between the data and bss segments.  The
	problem was that for the Sun-3 and Sun-4, a.out aligns segment
	boundaries to 8192 bytes (defined as PAGSIZ and SEGSIZ in a.out.h).
	The hardware page size on the Sun-3 and Sun-4 is 8192 bytes, but on
	the sparcstation it is 4096!.  The zzstrt code was using PAGSIZ to
	determine where the first page of the bss segment begins; on the
	sparcstation this could lead to the computation of the first page
	of the bss segment being off by one, with the unmapped page causing
	a segmentation violation when the bss segment is zeroed after the
	mapping operation.  The fix was to use the hardware page size (given
	getpagesize()) to align the first page of the bss segment.  (2/28)

unix/hlib/mkfloat.csh
	Changed the compress command to "compress -f" to ensure that any
	existing compressed file gets clobbered.  (2/28)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrfits.x
	The STF header file cache code had a bug that would cause it to
	continually reuse the same cache slot, even though multiple slots
	were available.  In the case of an operation which involved repeated
	accesses to two STF files (e.g., copying all the elements in a
	group file) each header file would be alternately loaded into the
	cache for every group element, defeating the cache entirely.  (2/28)

mkpkg
unix/mkpkg.sh
unix/setarch.sh	+
	A "mkpkg <arch>" at the iraf root for a UNIX/IRAF system with multiple
	architecture support will now set the AS and BIN links in iraf/unix
	to the appropriate values for the new core system architecture.  (3/1)

sys/mwcs/mwsaveim.x
sys/mwcs/iwewcs.x
	When a WCS is saved in a FITS format image header, MWCS must combine
	the Wterm and Lterm to produce the FITS representation CRPIX-CRVAL-CD,
	since FITS specifies what is, in MWCS terminology, the transform from
	logical to world coordinates, whereas in MWCS the Lterm and Wterm are
	independent and the Wterm specifies only the physical to world
	transformation.  Full system testing revealed that the linear algebra
	used to compute the FITS representation was incorrect.  The forward
	and inverse transforms were consistent, hence the saved MWCS could be
	reconstructed, but the forward transform was wrong and the values of
	the FITS CRPIX and CD were being computed incorrectly if the Lterm
	was not the identity transformation.  (3/1)

sys/mwcs/mwsaveim.x
	MWCS will now save or update the values of CDELT1 and CDELT2 in the
	image header.  This is in addition to the CD matrix values, which
	are always output.  The CDELTn are output only if 1) the image
	dimension is 2 or less, and 2) in the case of a two dimensional image,
	the CD matrix is diagonal.  Hence CDELT1 is always output for a
	one dimensional image, and for a two dimensional image, the CDELTn
	are not output is the image has been rotated (this includes transpose),
	or if the CD matrix contains off diagonal terms for any other reason,
	e.g., skew.  It would not be difficult to output CROTA2 in addition
	to the CDELT for a two dimensional image, but I am going to try to
	leave this out to discourage the use of CROTA2, which many programs
	which use CDELTn are probably not equipped to deal with in any case.
	(3/3)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfwgpb.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfcopyf.x
	1. Fixed a bug in the new stfcopyf.x code introduced in the 2/27
	revision.  The GPB cards were not being loaded into the reserved
	keyword table, causing filtering of GPB cards to fail.
	2. In stfwgpb.x, I commented out the warning messages for "image
	header parameter not found" when updating type real or double GPB
	parameters.  At least at present, MWCS omits WCS parameters that
	have zero values from the header, to avoid large numbers of zero
	valued cards for things like identity matrices in which zero elements
	are very common.  Hence parameters like CRVAL, CDi_j, may be
	omitted from the header even though these are defined GPB parameters.
	The interface will merely assume a zero value with no warning message
	if such a card is not found (formerly, it would assume a zero value
	and output a warning message).  (3/3)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
	When opening the first group of a new group formatted image, opened
	NEW_COPY, the GPB cards of the inherited image header were being
	extracted with stf_copyfits() using the GPB parameter list in the
	STF descriptor of the *new* image, before the new STF descriptor was
	initialized by stf_rdheader().  The fix was to use the STF descriptor
	of the old image to extract the GPB cards of the old image from the
	inherited user area.  (3/5)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfiwcs.x	+
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/mkpkg
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrgpb.x
	The old version of the STF image kernel had some code stfwcs.x which
	was used to propagate WCS information to a new image, applying the
	section transformation if necessary.  This was removed in the new
	version of STF since IMIO and MWCS now perform these functions.
	When this was done some code was added to stfrgpb.x to set up the
	default unitary pixel WCS reading a zeroed GPB when preparing the
	header of a NEW_COPY image.  This would work in the case of, e.g.,
	copying dev$pix into a new element of a group format image, avoiding
	having the new image end up with a zeroed WCS, which is invalid.
	This scheme was incorrect, however, because it would edit the WCS
	*after* inheriting the FITS cards from the old image in a NEW_COPY
	operation.  If the old image had a valid WCS it would be modified,
	which is incorrect.  Furthermore, there were cases where the WCS
	editing could fail with an "image header parameter not found" error
	when trying to change the values of nonexistent WCS parameters.

	The fix was to rip the WCS editing code out of stfrgpb.x.  A new
	routine stf_initwcs() (stfiwcs.x) has been added.  This is called
	in stfopen.x when a NEW_COPY image is created, after the new header
	has been constructed, to check for the case of an uninitialized WCS
	and set up the default unitary pixel WCS in that case.  The WCS is
	modified only if all elements of the CD matrix are zero, indicating
	an unitialized WCS.  (3/6)

unix/boot/bootlib/envinit.c
unix/boot/bootlib/osgetenv.c
unix/boot/mkpkg/tok.c
	Changed some SZ_LINE buffers to SZ_COMMAND buffers.  (3/6)

unix/boot/bootlib/ossysfile.c
	Made a minor modification to ensure that filenames extracted from
	the "pkglibs" file list do not contain any whitespace.  (3/6)

unix/boot/bootlib/envinit.c
	The HSI layered package environment facility defines an environment
	variable "pkglibs" which is the list of libraries (directories) to
	be searched (in addition to the system libraries and IRAFULIB) to
	satisfy a -llib or <file.h> file reference in mkpkg or xc.  pkglibs
	is normally defined in the lib/zzsetenv.def of each layered package,
	which is loaded at runtime when a HSI task is called with the -p <pkg>
	switch.  This works fine so long as only a single layered package
	environment is loaded.  When multiple package environments are loaded
	however, each package redefines pkglibs with the result that the
	libraries of the packages already loaded will not be searched.

	To avoid this, loadpkgenv() (which is what is called to process a
	-p <pkg> switch) was modified to treat "pkglibs" specially,
	concatenating new values onto a cumulative file list, rather than
	redefining the "pkglibs" variable each time.  This is a bit
	questionable since this is inconsistent behavior for an environment
	variable, but "pkglibs" is an integral part of the load-package-
	enviroment facility and the special behavior occurs only when a
	package environment is loaded.

	A note on the semantics of pkglibs and of environment varibles in
	the HSI in general.  In the HSI tasks, an environment variable
	defined at the host level (or in the system wide file zzsetenv.def
	in hlib) will override a variable defined in the package environment.
	Hence for example, the logical directory of a subpackage of a
	layered package can be redefined during development of a private
	version of the package.  In the case of "pkglibs", a host or system
	wide definition of pkglibs is used only as the initial list of
	package libraries to be searched; additional libraries defined by
	-p pkg versions of pkglibs are concatenated to this list, with the
	user defined libraries being searched first (IRAFULIB will override
	all of this by being searched first, if defined).  (3/6)

-----------------------
Updated STScI to this point.  (3/7)

unix/boot/bootlib/envinit.c
	Replaced the ENVPUTS by an ENVRESET, to be consistent with the
	other routines which modify the environment list.  Also, because the
	HSI never deletes definitions from the environment list there is no
	need to use ENVPUTS.  (3/8)

sys/gio/imdkern/imdclose.x
	Added a call to "call ttycdes (g_tty)" to close the graphcap
	descriptor at kernel close time.  Probably this is not being done
	in the other kernels either (altough it probably doesn't matter,
	since about the only time a kernel is closed is when the process
	shuts down).  (3/8)

sys/gio/imdkern/imdclws.x
	Modified the closews function for the IMD kernel to call imd_close,
	to fully close the kernel down.  This causes any buffered graphics
	to be flushed to the output device, and unmaps the frame buffer.
	For the IMD kernel there is no reason to keep the frame open waiting
	for append mode graphics, as the graphics is always drawn into the
	frame buffer in "append" (overlay) mode anyhow, and we want graphics
	to appear immediately without having to do a gflush.  (3/8)

dev/graphcap
	Added the alias "imdkern" for device entry "imd".  (3/8)

unix/sun/imtool.c
	The "sample" type (nonblocking) image cursor reads were not working,
	in the sense that the coordinate value returned was always the same.
	This was due to the routine returning the coordinates of the last
	blocking cursor read, rather than the current cursor position.
	Modified to return the coordinates of the most recent event (e.g.,
	mouse button press) seen in the image window.  In SunView the locator
	position is available to the application only when an event occurs.
	(3/8)

sys/gio/imdkern/imd.com
sys/gio/imdkern/imdclear.x
sys/gio/imdkern/imdopenws.x
	idk_open() was being called with the wrong argument list in this
	routine.  The old calling sequence (device,tty) was being used,
	instead of the IDK calling sequence (frame,color,tty).  (3/8)

dev/graphcap
sys/gio/imdkern/idk.x
	The IMD kernel was modified to draw into the *current display frame*
	if no output display frame is specified.  This is the case, for
	example, when the IMD kernel is used as a connected subkernel.

	For example,

		prow dev$pix 101 dev=imdg

	will plot line 101 of dev$pix in green on the current display frame.
	This feature makes it possible to control both the graphics color
	and the frame in which it is drawn when plotting directly to the
	image display from a graphics task.  (Note that it is also possible
	to :.snap graphics output to the display device).

	The frame in which graphics is to be drawn is determined as follows.
	If the frame specified by the IMDKERN parameter "frame" is greater
	than zero then that frame is used, else if the fname number given by
	the parameter "FN" in the graphcap is greater than zero that that
	frame is used, else the current display frame is used.  Hence, FN
	must be absent or set to <= 0 in the graphcap for automatic output
	to the current display frame to work.  (3/8)

pkg/plot/doc/contour.hlp
	Modified the help page for CONTOUR to note that contours may not
	appear to be centered on objects if a large blocking factor is used.
	(3/8)

pkg/plot/doc/imdkern.hlp +
pkg/plot/imdkern.par
	When I went to edit the IMDKERN help page to document the new
	semantics regarding the output frame, I discovered that there wasn't
	any help page!  I added a help page for IMDKERN, and modified the
	default parameters in plot/imdkern.par.  (3/8)

sys/gio/imdkern/imdcancel.x
sys/gio/imdkern/imd.com
	These files still contained some vestiges of the SGIKERN origins of
	IMDKERN.  The IMD common was still called /sgicom/ (harmless so long
	as the kernels are in separate processes, but incorrect) and the
	imdcancel.x procedure header comment was still calling the procedure
	SGI_CANCEL.  (3/9)

unix/hlib/mkfloat.csh
	This routine is supposed to print out the names of any "dreg .e files
	left lying about in the source directories" if it finds any.  An
	otherwise harmless problem with the use of "tee" in the script was
	preventing these filenames from being echoed.  (3/9)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrfits.x
	The STF header file cache logic could fail to invalidate the cache
	if the header was entered in the cache, modified on disk, and then
	reread all within one second, the time resolution of the timer used
	for the cache.  To avoid this it was necessary to force a reload if
	the file modify time is equal to the cache time.  This means that
	if a file is created and then immediately loaded into the cache,
	the cached entry will not be valid even if the image has not been
	modified since it was created.  The next reload (provided it occurs
	a second or more later) will however result in a valid cache entry.
	(3/9)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stf.h
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
sys/imio/iki/stf/stfupdhdr.x
	The semantics of the STF kernel regarding updates to the FITS header
	(global header for all images in the group) was modified to clarify
	the distinction between the global header, which pertains to all images
	in the group, and the GPB, which by definition contains any header
	parameters which can vary for each element of the group.

	The new strategy for FITS header updates is to always update, unless
	we are explicitly updating an existing group of a multigroup image.
	Hence, the FITS header is always updated for an STF image with only
	one group, or when writing the first group of a new multigroup file.
	The FITS header of an existing STF multigroup image can still be
	updated, but only if the image is not opened to any particular group,
	e.g., as "pix" rather than "pix[i]", I > 0 (i.e., "pix" and "pix[1]"
	are not equivalent when it comes to global header updates!).  An image
	opened NEW_[IMAGE|COPY] or READ_WRITE to access "pix[i]" will update
	only the GPB header.

	It is suggested that to avoid confusion, multigroup STF images be
	regarded as read-only once created.  If the multigroup image is
	created with IRAF the FITS header should be fully defined when the
	first group is written, opening the image [1/NGROUP]; subsequent
	writes to subimages [i] will write only the GPB of the subimage.
	During interactive reductions the user should create only single
	group images.  These should be functionally compatible with OIF
	images in all respects including header updates (except that the
	contents of the header will not in general be the same, e.g., OIF
	does not define a default PIXEL WCS).  (3/9)

----------------
Updated DECstation/IRAF.  (3/10)

unix/boot/bootlib/osputenv.c
	1. Replaced a 1024 by SZ_COMMAND.
	2. Merged in #ifdef ultrix stuff for the DECstation.  (3/10)

sys/osb/ieee.gx
	The BSWAP routines were being called improperly.  (3/10)

pkg/system/help/manout.x
	Increased the maximum number of lines per page from 128 or so so
	1024.  (3/10)

sys/etc/pagefiles.x
	1. When paging a text file and 'G' was typed to go to the end of the
	file, the pager would actually go one line too far, causing one line
	less than a full screen to be displayed.
	2. The pager was revised so that the 'N' and 'P' keys now have a
	dual meaning.  When paging a list of files they are used to move to
	the next or previous file in the list, as before.  When paging a
	single large file, they are used to move to the next or previous
	formfeed delimited page.  The character, line, and page number
	accounting was also revised and extensively tested to ensure that
	seeks, searches, next/previous screen/page, etc., get to the right
	place and report the right line number.  (3/11)

pkg/system/phelp.cl		+
pkg/system/doc/phelp.hlp	+
pkg/system/system.cl
pkg/system/system.hd
pkg/system/system.men
	Added a new task PHELP to the system package.  PHELP is a CL script
	front end to HELP, which runs HELP with the output redirected to a
	tmp file, then pages the tmp file with PAGE.  The simple usage is
	"phelp task" but more complex usages such as "phelp proto.*" are
	also possible (in the latter case the 'N' and 'P' keys are used
	to view successive formfeed delimited help pages in the tmp file).

	All this seems to work fine, except for an as yet unresolved bug
	in HELP which is causing some packages to appear twice.  For example,
	PLOT appears twice in the help database for some reason, and typing
	"phelp plot.*" works, but one gets all the help pages and then all
	of them all over again.  Harmless, but annoying.  (3/11)

sys/etc/pagefiles.x
	Added an upscroll capability to the file pager.  This seems to work,
	but the pagefiles code is a mess and there may still be special cases
	or combinations of commands where things don't work quite as expected.
	This code has grown far beyond its original design and should be
	junked and reengineered eventually.  (3/12)

pkg/lists/rimcursor.x
	1. Modified the task so that if only the first 2 or 3 fields of the
	cursor value are input (e.g., x and y) only those fields are output.
	2. If the reference image open failed, a non-NULL pointer ct could
	be returned.  (3/13)

dev/graphcap
dev/cachet.dat
	The default "xterm" entry in graphcap now disables the "am" (auto
	margin) capability.  Evidently xterm will indeed autowrap at the
	right margin, but it is clever and eats up any cr/lf/tab characters
	which follow the autowrap.  If the following line begins with one
	or more tabs, these are eaten by xterm and the line will not
	indented properly.  If one dumps the same file to xterm with the
	unix "cat", things work as expected as cat ignores details like
	automargin and dumps out the newline at the end of the line.  Hence,
	although the terminal does implement something like AM, it appears
	that this can be safely ignored and a newline sequence output after
	writing a character in the right margin.  It is possible that the
	iraf terminal output code is not interpreting AM properly, but for
	the present I am going to disable the AM in the iraf version of the
	termcap entry (the unix version enables AM).  (3/13)

~sites/logmail.c
	The LOGMAIL support utility (part of the iraf/site mail) was modified
	to strip the "Received:" lines and continuation lines out of logged
	site mail.  (3/13)

---------------------
Updated stsci to this point.  (Tried to update cfa but couldn't get in).
Updated ffpa binaries on tucana.  (3/13)

unix/sun/imtool.c
	The IIS datastream reserves 9 bits (resolution 512) for the X and Y
	addresses in an image memory write or read.  The IMTOOL code was using
	a 10 bit mask (01777 = resolution 1024) of the X/Y values for reads,
	and a 12 bit mask (07777 = 4096) for writes.  Hence, normal write
	only image display with IMTOOL (or SAOIMAGE) would work fine for
	images up to 4096 square, but read back would fail for images larger
	than 1024 square.  It turns out that the IIS datastream protocol
	(which IMTOOL/SAOIMAGE emulate) can actually support X and Y bitfields
	of up to 14 bits, so there should be no problem increasing the size
	of these bitmasks.  I increased the size of the X and Y address bitmask
	used in IMTOOL to 077777 (max 32768 resolution) for both reads and
	writes.  SAOIMAGE should be similarly modified.  The DISPLAY code
	does not limit the size of X and Y addresses so there should be no
	problem there.  (3/14)

-----------------
Updated decstation (cephus).
Installed the 13Mar beta system for CFA.  (3/14)

-----------------
Begin VMS/IRAF update to V2.9.  (3/17)
Rebuilt system from tucana sources and VMS/IRAF HSI.
Merged in V2.9 HSI revisions.
Begin bootstrap and sysgen.

vms/os/zopcpr.c
	The struct "acc$record", defined in <accdef.h>, is used for the
	mailbox termination message at process exit.  For VMS5, the name
	of this structure is evidently changed to struct accdef.  Changed
	the source accordingly (and we are no longer source compatible with
	VMS4).  (3/17)

generic/mkpkg.com
mkpkg/mkdebug.com
mkpkg/mkpkg.com
mkpkg/mkpkg
rmbin/mkdebug.com
rmbin/mkpkg.com
rmfiles/mkpkg.com
rtar/mkpkg.com
spp/xc.com
spp/mkpkg.com
spp/rpp/mkpkg.com
spp/xpp/mkpkg.com
wtar/mkpkg.com
	In the first attempt to link the HSI utilities under VMS5, all the
	links failed with the message

	    undefined symbol LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL...

	After looking around at the system libraries for a bit, purely on
	a guess, I changed the line

	    $ define/nolog LNK$LIBRARY sys$library:vaxcrtl.olb

	to

	    $ define/nolog LNK$LIBRARY sys$library:vaxcrtl.olb
	    $ define/nolog LNK$LIBRARY_1 sys$library:imagelib.olb

	in all the mkpkg.com and mkpkg files in the HSI.  Evidently a C
	runtime library routine now references the system run time library
	LIBRTL in VMS5, so this (in the system shared image) has to be
	searched now if VAXCRTL is used.  (3/17)

unix/boot/spp/xpp/decl.c
	The VMS Fortran compiler barfed on the use of ARB for array argument
	declarations, complaining about the array dimension exceeding
	addressable memory.  I expected problems with this construct anyway,
	so it was necessary to change the SPP preprocessor to avoid the
	problem.  Several other improvements were made in the process.

	1. ARB in array argument declations is now replaced by the Fortran *
	symbol, e.g. "int foo[ARB]" becomes "integer foo[*]".
	2. +1 is no longer added to char arrays that are procedure arguments.
	This is now only done for local arrays.  (The +1 is added by the
	preprocessor to allow space for the EOS in an SPP string).
	3. Dimensioning a local array ARB is now considered an error and will
	result in a compile time error message from the preprocessor.  (3/18)

sys/mwcs/wfinit.x
	The VMS Fortran compiler didn't like the duplicate definition of
	wf_smp_tran(), originally used since the same function appears twice
	in the function driver.  (3/18)

pkg/dataio/fits/fits_rpixels.x
pkg/dataio/fits/fits_wpixels.x
noao/mtlocal/camera/cam_rpixels.x
noao/mtlocal/pds/pds_rpixels.x
noao/mtlocal/r2df/r2dfrpix.x
noao/twodspec/multispec/msextract.x
noao/twodspec/multispec/fitgauss5.x
	These files contained routines with ENTRY points wherein an array
	argument was dimensioned ARB.  This fooled the SPP compiler, which
	now checks for local arrays dimensioned ARB.  ENTRY points should
	probably be considered illegal in SPP code (certainly they are
	discouraged, as they are a common source of compiler problems).
	As a workaround for the present I changed the code to dimension
	the entry point arrays [1] rather than [ARB].  (3/18)

noao/astutil/t_setairmass.x
	This file contained several occurrences of the construct mod(dble,24.).
	VMS Fortran insists that the arguments to intrinsic functions all be
	the same type, and even a double and a real as in this case is not
	permitted.  Changed the 24. to 24.D0 and it compiled ok.  (3/18)

	Linking this process on VMS took so long that I ran a timing test
	comparing the VMS 8600 to the Sun-3 180 (tucana).  Linking -z on
	both systems tooks 5 minutes on the 8600 vs 1 minute on the Sun-3.

vms/uis/*
	Installed the latest version of the UIS display program for VMS
	(the VAXstation), contributed by Nigel Sharp.  (3/18)

[vms shared libraries note]
	The following error message appears on our system when some of the
	iraf processes are linked.  So are as I can tell it is harmless,
	and probably not worth trying to track down.

	%LINK-I-DATMISMCH, creation date of 14-JUN-1989 11:48 in shareable
	    image SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DISMNTSHR.EXE;2
        differs from date of 10-MAY-1989 17:37 in shareable image library
	    SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]IMAGELIB.OLB;1

vms/gdev/mkpkg
vms/gdev/zfiogd.x
vms/gdev/zfiovi.c	+
	Installed a new version of ZFIOGD (graphics or image device i/o driver)
	for VMS.  The IMTOOL device code in this VMS version uses VMS mailboxes
	(rather than fifo pipes as in unix) to talk to the display server
	process.  This new driver was written by Jay Travisano of STScI.
	It is used to interface SAOIMAGE to VMS/IRAF, but it could be used for
	any other display server as well (e.g., UISDISPLAY could use this
	interface too if suitably modified).  At this point, the new driver
	has only been installed.  Checkout will have to wait until we are
	ready for full system testing with a display server.  (3/18)

------------------------
V2.9BETA shapshot of DECstation/IRAF and VMS/IRAF sent to STScI.  (3/19)
Update of Sun386i/IRAF begun.  (3/19)

sys/etc/pagefiles.x
	1. Fixed a bug in the pager which would allow one to upscroll past the
	beginning of file.
	2. Typing space at the end of a file causes the pager to move to the
	next file in a file list, i.e., the space is turned into an 'N'.
	This could cause problems when paging a single file, in which case the
	'N' is interpreted as go to next page.  On VMS this was leading to a
	seek error on the file being paged (not clear why that was but I did
	not have time to pursue it further).  (3/19)

pkg/cl/builtin.c
	A command such as "flpr beep" would cause a segmentation violation
	in the CL.  This command is pointless since BEEP is a builtin task
	(no process in the cache) but the CL should complain a bit more
	gracefully.  Modified the FLPRCACHE builtin to check for script,
	foreign, builtin, and pset tasks and abort with "task `foo' not in
	cache" if flprcache is called with the name of such a task.  (3/19)

sys/etc/pagefiles.x
	The string length of an output line of text was being used to compute
	the number of terminal lines required to display a long line of output
	text.  This computation could fail when the line being displayed
	contained a large number of control characters, e.g., tabs, or font
	control or enhancement codes.  Not a serious problem, but the number
	of lines output to fill a screen could be wrong.  (3/20)

pkg/system/news.cl
unix/hlib/newsfile	-
doc/newsfile		+
doc/news.old.hlp	+
doc/news.v28.hlp	+
	The NEWS facility was reworked to provide more up to date information
	about the system.  The NEWS program merely pages the system news file,
	now moved to doc$newsfile.  At present all this consists of is a
	concatenated sequence of revisions summaries.  Formfeeds separate
	successive revisons summaries.  The revisions for the current release
	of the system are paged first, with the 'N' key providing access to
	the old news.  (3/20)

pkg/system/help/lroff/texout.x
	Another ancient file that uses ENTRY points, had to change a "local"
	[ARB] to [1].  (3/20)

pkg/images/iminfo/t_imstat.x
	This program contained a statement [format = clgetb("format")], where
	"format" is type integer.  This fails on VMS because the internal
	values used for boolean (Fortran logical) are not 0/1 as in UNIX.
	The construct is always illegal of course, it merely happens to
	work on UNIX because the internal representation of bool and the
	SPP YES/NO are identical.  (3/20)

sys/fio/ffilsz.x
	The file size code (e.g., fstatl(fd,F_FILESIZE)) did not support
	file types STRING_FILE and SPOOL_FILE at all.  A call to the binary
	file driver was being made even though there was no physical file
	associated with the file descriptor!  The routine ffilsz.x was
	modified to add support for the memory buffer file types.  The new
	STF image kernel uses fstatl to query the size of the spool file
	used to store the image header, and the bogus file size being returned
	could lead to a segmentation violation in some circumstances.  (3/20)

sys/fio/fexbuf.x
	The amount by which a spool file buffer size is incremented if
	overflow occurs was increased from 1024 to 4096 chars.  This is
	arbitrary, but will be slightly more efficient when writing large
	spool files.  (A call to fseti(fd,F_BUFSIZE,n)) can be made before
	writing to the spool file if the amount of space needed is known
	in advance).  (3/20)

unix/os/zfacss.c
	Modified ZFACSS, used to test whether a file is binary or text,
	to permit a narrow range of control codes in text files.  This is
	necessary in order to allow iraf text files containing standout mode
	control characters or form feeds to be considered part of the source
	distribution.  (3/20)

---------------------
All local beta test systems (f68881, sparc, 386i, decstation, vax/vms)
updated to this point.  (3/20)

unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def
	Added an entry for "nomwcs".  Currently, this is commented out on
	the irafx systems, but defined (MWCS is disabled) for the user
	systems.  (3/21)

---------------------
V2.9BETA installed on NOAO/Tucson Sun network (orion, gemini).  (3/21)

dev/hosts
	Added several new "scientist workstation" entries from gemini, on
	all local nodes.  (3/22/90 SRo)

dev/devices.hlp
	Updated to include the three tape drives on gemini.  (3/22/90 SRo)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
	This routine contained an illegal call to ERRACT at the end of the
	procedure, in the error exit code.  The call was illegal because
	ERRACT can only be called from within an error handler, to take an
	action based on the error currently being processed.  The correct
	thing to do in the case of stfopen was merely to return an error
	status, since this procedure uses a status output argument.  (3/21)

unix/os/zdojmp.c
	This routine would pass a zero status on to the ZSVJMP call at the
	other end of the jump buffer.  This is incorrect, since ZSVJMP/ZDOJMP
	are modeled after the unix setjmp/longjmp, and setjmp must not return
	a zero status when the return is via a longjmp.  This bug could lead
	to an error condition going undetected when error recovery resulted
	in a jump back into the iraf main.  Calling ZDOJMP with a zero error
	code is very rare, i.e., it does not happen in the normal execution
	of the system, but it was occuring as a result of the STFOPEN bug
	above.  (3/21)

doc/ports/notes.mips
	Replaced by a later version of the file containing a few notes on
	the second update (hereafter, decstation revisions will be documented
	in the master systems notes file).  (3/21)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfopen.x
	When an STF image is opened new-copy, the old STF header is copied
	to the new image in stfopen.x.  This was being done by copying the
	maximum size descriptor LEN_STFDES, but in the new V2.9 STF kernel
	the STF descriptor is reallocated once an image is opened to save
	space.  Hence the actual descriptor length can be less than LEN_STFDES,
	and the amovi operation used to copy the descriptor could result
	in a segmentation violation if the old descriptor buffer happened
	to be located near the end of dynamic memory.  (3/21)

----------------
DECstation updated.  (3/21)

unix/boot/rtar/rtar.c
	Made the same change to the file type heuristic as made in the
	ZFACSS revision on 3/20 (certain formatting control codes are now
	considered legal in text files).  (3/24)

----------------
VMS/IRAF updated.  (3/24)

unix/hlib/motd
	Revised the standard motd to include mentioned of the revamped NEWS
	facility.  (3/24)

pkg/system/doc/news.hlp
	Updated the help page for NEWS.  (3/24)

unix/boot/mkpkg/char.c
unix/boot/mkpkg/mkpkg.hlp
	The syntax "$(@file)" can now be used to substitute the contents of
	a text file during mkpkg file interpretation.  (The old macro
	replacement forms are "$(symbol)" to substitute the value of a
	symbol or environment variable, and "$(?symbol)" to interactively
	query for the value of a symbol).  (3/24)

unix/shlib/mkpkg
unix/os/zzstrt.c
	Modified the the shared library facility to support multiple shared
	image versions.  The shared image, instead of being named "S.e" is
	now named "Si.e", where "i" is the major version number.  For example
	the current shared library version for most V2.9 architectures is 4,
	and the shared image is named S4.e.  The name "S.e" is reserved for
	the V2.8 shared image (since that is what V2.8 executables will be
	looking for, lacking version number support).  (3/24)

--------------------
tucana{f68881,ffpa,sparc}, orion, pegasus updated.  (3/25)

noao/lib/strip.iraf
	1. Added ".fits" to the list of files to be retained in the strip
	operation.
	2. Changed the OBJS.arc in the special files area to OBJS.arc.Z,
	changed a .68881 to .f68881, added sparc and i386 entries.  (3/26)

--------------------
V2.9BETA updated at STScI.  (3/26)

sys/imio/iki/oif/oifmkpfn.x
	FATAL was being called in this file with a missing argument, causing
	a segmentation violation in the unlikely event that the call was ever
	made (due to failure to generate a unique pixel file name).  Replaced
	by a call to IMERR.  I cannot recall why the call to FATAL was being
	made, unless it was because it is supposed to be impossible under
	normal conditions to fail to generate a unique file name, indicating
	some serious problem if this occurs.  (3/27)

--------------------
gemini incrementally updated from orion, including layered pkgs.  (3/28 SRo)

sys/imio/iki/stf/stfrfits.x
	The STF caching code had a nasty hidden assumption which could lead
	to repeated cache reloads in some circumstances.  When a header file
	is loaded into the cache, the clock time on the local cpu is stored
	in the cache slot to mark the time of the load.  When the cache is
	subsequently searched for a cached header file, the file modify date
	of the header file is compared to the time when the cache slot was
	loaded, and the header is reloaded if the modify date is greater than
	or equal to the cache load time (the equal-to is needed due to the
	limited resolution of the clock).

	The hidden assumption is that the clock used for the file modify time
	is the same as that used to mark the time when the cache slot is
	loaded.  If the file being accessed is on a different machine with a
	different clock (due to a NFS access), the file modify clock and the
	local clock can easily differ by several minutes!  This could lead
	to two problems: 1) if the remote clock was ahead, the file modify
	time could be greater than the local ttime, causing the cache to be
	continually reloaded (due to a repeat loop in the code) until the
	time difference was made up, or 2) if the remote clock was behind,
	file modifications occuring during the interval defined by the
	difference between the two clocks could go undetected.

	The solution adopted was to reload the file into the cache if the
	modify time *changes*, rather than comparing it to some other time
	which could be on a different time base.  To avoid the problem of
	file modifications going undetected which occur quicker than the 1
	second resolution of the clocks, the local timer is used to measure
	the time since the file was loaded into the cache.  If the cache slot
	is less than 1-2 seconds old, the file is reloaded into the cache
	(the 2 seconds is necessary to ensure that 1 full second has passed).
	If the file is reloaded within the 1-2 second interval the timer is
	not restarted, hence so long as the file modify time does not change,
	the cache slot will be considered valid within 1-2 seconds after the
	initial load.  (Amazing how tricky these things can be).  (3/29)

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Updated tucana{f68881,ffpa,sparc}, orion{f68881,ffpa,sparc,i386},
pegasus{i386}, draco/irafx.  (3/30-31).

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IRAF V2.9 RELEASE FROZEN - except for installation of a few things completed
but not yet checked out and installed (IEEE support for VMS, new version of
PLOT, online release notes, etc).  (4/2)

unix/as.vax/ieeer.s	+
unix/as.vax/ieeed.s	+
vms/as/ieeer.s		+
vms/as/ieeed.s		+
vms/hlib/mkpkg.sf
	Installed VAX versions of IEEE/native floating point conversion
	primitives.  (4/2)

sys/osb/ieee.gx
	The IEEE conversions package was modified to add the two routines

		iee[sg]nan[rd] (NaN)
	e.g.
		call ieesnanr (INDEFR)

	to set NaN to INDEFR (the default is zero).  NaN is the native
	floating point value to which IEEE NaN, +/-Inf, exponent overflow,
	and so on are mapped when converting IEEE values to native floating
	point values.

	Since the "portable" routines in osb$ieee.gx have no way of detecting
	the IEEE not-a-number values or of dealing with overflow, the default
	iee[sg]nan[rd] routines do nothing even though they are included in
	the interface.  For these routines to do anything, and for NaNs to
	be trapped during IEEE input, machine dependent versions of the files
	osb$ieee[rd].x must be provided in host$as, with an entry on the
	special file list to cause the system to use the host dependent
	versions of the files.

	While the new routines provide a simple way of dealing with NaNs which
	is consistent with our current applications, this is not the end of the
	story.  In the future we will probably need to add a function-callback
	capability, which will allow the application to dynamically post a
	function to be called by the host level conversion primitives when a
	NaN is detected or generated.  Use of a callback will allow efficient
	generation of a bad pixel list as well as replacement of NaN values
	by a constant or data dependent value.  (4/2)

pkg/cl/prcache.c
	The process cache code checks the file date of a cached process
	whenever a task is run to see if the process has been relinked and
	needs to be restarted (often the case when doing software development
	from within the iraf environment).  It occurred to me that this
	probably suffers from the same assumption as did the STF cache code
	(3/29), i.e., the test can fail if the process resides on a remote
	system being accessed via NFS, and the clocks of the local and remote
	systems differ.  Checking the code this was indeed the case, so I
	modified the cache test code to mark the cache slot with the file
	modify time rather than with the local cpu time when the process was
	cached.  (4/4)

unix/hlib/login.cl
	Changed the template login.cl to define "grep" rather than "bgrep"
	in the default user package.  (4/4)

pkg/plot/doc/pvector.hlp
pkg/plot/getdata.x
pkg/plot/mkpkg
pkg/plot/pvector.par
pkg/plot/t_contour.x
pkg/plot/t_pcol.x
pkg/plot/t_pcols.x
pkg/plot/t_prow.x
pkg/plot/t_prows.x
pkg/plot/t_pvector.x
pkg/plot/t_surface.x
	1. The tasks PROW,PROWS,PCOL,PCOLS were largely rewritten.  Outwardly
	they will appear much the same as before, but they will now work with
	group (STF) data, QPOE filters, image sections, and in general any
	image specification that uses [].
	2. SURFACE and CONTOUR were modified to work with image specifications
	containing [].
	3. PVECTOR now provides an option to output the vector as a text file
	or image, rather than always making a plot.  (4/4)

qpqueryf.x
qpiolmask.x
qploadwcs.x
qpiolwcs.x
qpsavewcs.x
zzdebug.x
	1. Added a new debug task SETWCS to the QPOE zzdebug.x.  The new task
	was used to test qp_savewcs, which saves a MWCS wcs object in a QPOE
	file.
	2. In qpiolmask.x qp_read was being called with the datatype field
	TY_OPAQUE.  In qp_loadwcs.x and qp_savewcs.x qp_read and qp_write
	were being called with a datatype field of TY_CHAR.  Both of these
	cases were wrong, as the datatype field is a string in these calls.
	Changed all calls to use the datatype "opaque", since that is what
	the encoded PLIO and MWCS objects are.
	3. The linear transformation vector in qpiolwcs.x wasn't quite right;
	the bounding box coordinates were used directly to form the translation
	vector, but those coordinates are one indexed so I had to subtract
	one to get the translation.
	4. In qpqueryf.x, fixed a typo: the datatype of an opaque parameter
	was being returned as "oqaque".

	Performed a full system test, using the zzdebug.setwcs task to save
	a wcs in a test qpoe file, and imheader to load and display the wcs
	through the higher level code.  [Only QPOE could be affected by these
	changes].  (4/10)

vms/x11/0readme.xterm	+
vms/x11/xterm.e		+
vms/x11/xterm.hlp	+
vms/x11/saoimage.e	+
vms/x11/saoimage.hlp	+
vms/x11/setup.com	+
	Installed a minimal set of executables and help files for the VMS
	versions of SAOIMAGE and XTERM in vms/iraf.  These are very
	preliminary, the release is incomplete, and there are known bugs,
	but someone may find the shapshot versions of these tasks useful
	while a more carefully prepared release is readied.  (4/15)

vms/os/queue.c
vms/os/jbcmsgdef.h
	Following the upgrade to VMS-5, VMS/IRAF had a bug wherein once a
	job submitted to a batch queue completed, an abnormal termination
	message JSB$_NOSUCHENT would be written to the terminal, and a
	subsequent "jobs" would cause the CL to panic with an access violation.
	The reason for the access violation is not clear, but the NOSUCHENT
	termination code is evidently new in VMS-5, and the job queue code
	in the VMS HSI wasn't prepared for such a status return.  Changed
	the code in queue.c to check for and ignore both the old VMS-4 status
	return JBC$_NOSUCHJOB and the new VMS-5 code JBC$_NOSUCHENT.  The
	kernel also had a local file jbcmsgdef.h from VMS-4 which did not
	contain the new VMS-5 codes; it was not clear why the kernel needs
	a private copy of these definitions, so a dead code comment was
	placed in the file and the #include in queue.c was changed to use
	the system version instead.  (4/15)

doc/newsfile
doc/news.v29.hlp	+
doc/v29revs.ms		+
	Installed the revisions summary or release notes for IRAF V2.9. (4/15)

-------------------------
The V2.9 distribution was made and placed into distribution sometime back.
The following bugs are being fixed retroactively, with patches for the
original V2.9 distribution.  (5/5)

unix/spp/boot/spp/xpp/decl.c
	This code was not processing multidimensional char array declarations
	properly.  There were actually three problems: for a multidimensional
	array passed as an argument, [1] +1 was not being added to the first
	axis to allow for the EOS, and [2] the axis was not being counted,
	causing +1 to be added to the *final* axis later in the code.
	[3] for all multidimensional char arrays the code was not checking to
	see which axis it was on before adding the +1, so +1 would be added
	to each axis, instead of only the first axis as it should be.  (these
	bugs were contstrained to only several lines of code, it takes more
	lines to describe them here!).  Note that ONLY multidimensional char
	arrays were affected by these bugs, and for char arrays of ndim=2,
	ONLY arrays declared as arguments to procedures.  (5/5)

unix/shlib/mkshlib.csh
unix/shlib/S.ver.f68881
unix/shlib/S.ver.ffpa
unix/shlib/S.ver.sparc
unix/shlib/S.ver.i386
	Sun release SunOS 4.1 about a week after Sun/IRAF V2.9, built on
	SunOS 4.0.3, was frozen and prepared for distribution.  We subsequently
	found that V2.9 would not run under SunOS 4.1, failing with a "cannot
	map shared image" error during process startup.  This was traced to
	an overlap of the region of virtual memory used by the hardware stack
	and the IRAF shared image; in OS 4.1, Sun has moved the hardware
	stack to a lower address.  The following changes were made to deal
	with this.

	1. The base address of the IRAF shared image was changed from
	0x0e000000 to 0x0a000000.  The base address of the shared image
	is arbitrary so long as the region of process virtual memory occupied
	by the shared image does not conflict with anything else, so this
	change should not affect the functioning of V2.9.
	2. The shared image version number was incremented to 5, i.e., the
	new shared image is S5.e.  This was necessary because with a different
	base address, the new shared image cannot be used with applications
	linked with the old shared image.  (5/5)