Official Annoucement of the 96NOVpl2.0 ESO-MIDAS Release | |||||
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The official 96NOVpl2.0 release of ESO-MIDAS has been released on June 18, 1997 and is available on our ftp accounts. |
The following list is just a summary. A more detailed list can be obtained, after installation, with the MIDAS command "help [news]"
SUN SunOS/4.1.3 | SUN Solaris 2.5 | HP HP-UX A.10.10 |
HP HP-UX A.10.20 | SG IRIX/5.2 | DEC OSF1/V4.0 (1) |
PC Linux/2.0.28 (2) | IBM AIX/V4.1 | |
Alpha(AXP) Open VMS V6.1 and V7.0, Fortran V6.3 and DECC V5.3 | ||
VAX Open VMS VMS V6.1, FORTRAN V6.4 and DECC V5.3 (3) |
96NOVpl2.0 is also available in binary format for all supported platforms. Binary copies of MIDAS are already compiled and ready to run. Installation is reduced to just the tuning of some configuration files.
Source and binary copies of 96NOVpl2.0 are available in our anonymous ftp account:
Ftp host: | ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org |
Ftp account: | "ftp" |
Ftp Password: | <your e-mail address> |
Directory: | /midaspub/96NOV/sources (ESO-MIDAS sources) /midaspub/96NOV/linux (PC Linux/2.0.28)(1) /midaspub/96NOV/hp_ux (HP HP-UX A.10.10)(2) /midaspub/96NOV/alpha_osf (DEC OSF1/V4.0) /midaspub/96NOV/ibm_aix (IBM/AIX 4.1) /midaspub/96NOV/sg_irix (SG IRIX/5.2) /midaspub/96NOV/solaris (SUN Solaris 2.5) |
Files: | README.sources 96NOVpl2.0.tar.Z |
For a proper installation of MIDAS sources follow the procedure of the installation document provided in PostScript (installunix.ps.Z) and DVI format (installunix.dvi.Z)
MIDAS is distributed on all platforms with Graphical User Interfaces GUI using the Motif dynamic shared libraries, except for Linux where all GUIs are linked with the static Motif library.
Ftp host: | ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org | |
Ftp account: | "ftp" | |
Ftp Password: | <your mail address> | |
Directory: | /midaspub/96NOV/doc | |
Files: | vol1.ps.z vol2_ps.tar vol3_ps.ta env.ps.z agldoc.tar.Z midas-faq.doc.Z ididoc.ps.Z midas-html.tar.Z |
ESO-MIDAS Volume A: System ESO-MIDAS Volume B: Data Reduction ESO-MIDAS Volume C: Detailed Command Description ESO-MIDAS Environment AGL Documentation ESO-MIDAS Frequent Asked Questions IDI Documentation ESO-MIDAS complete documentation in HTML |
In particular cases printed copies and updates of documentation can also be obtained from ESO. If you absolutely need hardcopies of the documentation please contact the User Support Group at ESO/Munich.
ESO-MIDAS is available under the GNU General Public License. This means that the ESO-MIDAS system is available, free of charge and can freely redistributed on certain conditions. As a consequence of this distribution policy User Agreements between research institutes and ESO will not apply as of ESO-MIDAS release 95NOVpl2.0 and will not be prolongated when they expire.
A short statement if the GNU General Public License is included in all relevant ESO-MIDAS files and follows below. The full GNU License text is included in the ESO-MIDAS release as separate text file.
Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997 European Southern Observatory (ESO)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetss Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Correspondence concerning ESO-MIDAS should be addressed as follows: Internet e-mail: midas@eso.org Postal address: European Southern Observatory Data Management Division/User Support Group Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 D 85748 Garching bei Munchen GERMANY
The 97NOV release of ESO-MIDAS will not appear on CD-ROM. CD-ROMs containing release 96NOVpl2.0 are available still and can be obtained from ESO. It ncludes all source code, documentation, and verification procedures. The complete list of what is on the CD-ROM is given below.
Research Institutes can order the CD-ROM directly from the ESO-MIDAS Group by filling out the MIDAS Problem Report Form or to send a mail to midas@eso.org. Others are kindly invited to contact the ESO Education and Public Relations Department <ipr@eso.org>.
Electronic mail: | midas@eso.org |
Telefax: | +49 89 32006480 (attn.: MIDAS Support) |
Post: | Data Management Division - User Support Group
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany |
Anonymous ftp: | ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org |
WWW: | http://www.eso.org/esomidas/ |
Mailing lists: | midas-announce (for official announcements)
midas-users (for general discussion) |
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For your questions, comments, problems, etc, related to ESO-MIDAS, please use the ESO-MIDAS Problem Report Form.