Announcement of ESO-MIDAS
98NOV Beta, Patch Level 1.5

The following list is just a summary. A more detailed list can be obtained, after installation, with the MIDAS command "help [news]".

# 980910 - fix set/format T problem:

# 980911 - for expanding FRAMACC usage:

# 980914 - for adding areatable.prg in APP_PROC:

# 980914 - for adding m$ftset():

# 980915 - update SCFINF:

# 980916 - work on m$len(), m$strln():

# 980916 - fixing JP's VMS warnings (PG):

# 980916 - fixing JP's VMS warnings:

# 980918 - use fast median sorting:

# 980918 - fix bug with SPEC option and subframes:

# 980921 - add interval option to statistics + new REBIN/STATIST:

# 980922 - update error message in coordinate extraction:

# 980922 - fix bug in COMPUTE/KEYW with long tokens:

# 980923 - update COPY/AD command:

# 980924 - fix problems with Xstation name in CREATE/DISPLAY:

# 980924 - update MODIFY/PIX (SW):

# 980925 - fix problems with long keyword constants:

# 980925 - fix problems with old m$log() function

# 980928 - fix problems with verify10.prg (RGB mode)

# 980928 - update verifications for VMS (no direct FITS access there yet)

# 980928 - cleanup the LUT,ITT ASCII <-> binary business and new ramp.iasc

Please notice that patch files have to be applied in consecutive order. Example: if you have 98NOVpl1.0 installed, in order to upgrade to pl1.5 you will have to install patch98NOVpl1.0-1.1.tar.Z first then patch98NOVpl1.2-1.3.tar.Z and so on. Finally, run a complete MIDAS installation.

Unfortunately there are not yet binaries for 98NOVpl1.5 available.