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The 96NOVpl2.1 ESO-MIDAS Release on CD-ROM |
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The MIDAS Group of ESO is happy to announce the ESO-MIDAS CD-ROM
containing the release 96NOVpl2.1 (patch level 2.1) of ESO-MIDAS.
Below follows an overview of the contents of the CD-ROM and the minimum
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Available on this CD-ROM:
- ESO-MIDAS 96NOVpl2.1 sources
- ESO-MIDAS 96NOVpl2.1 binaries for:
- PC/Linux 2.0.28 or higher
- HP-UX 9000 A.10.10
- Sun/Solaris 2.5
- Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.3
- Alpha/OSF1 V4.0
- IBM/RS6000 AIX 4.1
- Calibration data for all platforms
above
- Demonstration data for all
platforms above
- ESO-MIDAS 96NOV documentation in:
- Postscript format
- DVI format
- HTML format
- ESO-MIDAS 96NOVpl2.1 ready to run
from CD-ROM on PC/Linux
- Complete RedHat 4.2 distribution
for PC/Linux
- Complete Xephem 3.0 sources and
binary for PC/Linux
System Requirements
- PC with microprocessor 386 or
higher (486 or higher recommended)
- 8 Mbyte of RAM (16 Mbyte recommended)
- 200 Mbyte of hard disk space,
depending on space requirements for actual data
- CD-ROM drive
- Super VGA with 256 colours
- Linux operating system, version
2.0.28 or later
How to Order
The CD-ROM is available to everyone interested in the
ESO-MIDAS. Registrated
research institutes will received the ESO-MIDAS CD-ROM in the
coming weeks. Other sites wishing to receive the CD-ROM
should contact the MIDAS Support Group, either by e-mail (midas@eso.org) or via the ESO-MIDAS WWW Help interface.
Individuals wishing to receive a copy of the ESOMIDAS CD-ROM are kindly
invited to contact the Education and Public
Relations Department (e-mail:
ips@eso.org).
To remind you, the ESO-MIDAS products contained on the CD-ROM, are
available via our anonymous ftp server:
ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org/midaspub. The ftp
services include regular patches and updates of ESO-MIDAS.
Errata and Warnings
Below you find a number of corrections of the text in the booklet that
comes with the CD-ROM and on the inlay card
1. In the MIDAS CD-ROM booklet
Section: RUNNING FROM THE
CD-ROM (ONLY FOR LINUX)
Run MIDAS with the command:
- % inmidas -h /cdrom/midas
or set the variable MIDASHOME to /cdrom/midas before executing:
- % inmidas
Section: INSTALL
THE PRODUCT(S)
On Solaris the CD-ROM may be mounted automatically as
"/cdrom/96nov_pl2_1#2". The character "#" may affect some
WEB browsers like "netscape 3.01" if you try to load MIDAS HTML
documentation. If so, dismount the CD-ROM and mount it as just
"/cdrom", or copy the HTML MIDAS documentation to your local disk.
Section:STEP 3 - TEST THE
INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
The MIDAS verification procedures requires to install the
package "verify.tar.Z" first, otherwise the "verify3.prg"
test will fail with the message: "Warning: Cannot open
file:nttexample.mt". The compressed tar file can be retrieved from the
our anonymous ftp server:
ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org/midaspub/96NOV/ in the platform sub-directories.
2. In the MIDAS CD-ROM inlay-card
The ESO Skycat Tool was dropped from
the MIDAS CD-ROM for capacity reasons.
The mountain Paranal where the ESO
Very Large Telescope is being erected, is located 130 km south of
Antofagasta.