AIPS 15JUL94 Release

The 15JUL94 Release of AIPS is no longer available; it has been superceded by many others; the latest is what you should check.

Here are the final distribution statistics for the 15JUL94 version.

   |---------------|------------------------------|------|
   |     SOURCE    |    SOURCE + EXECUTABLES      |TOTALS|
   |      ONLY     |------------------------------|------|
   |               | SUN4 SOL IBM ALPHA SGI LINUX |      |
   |---------------|------------------------------|      |
   | ftp/tar.Z  23 |                              | 23   |
   | ftp/tar.gz 19 |                              | 19   |
   | 8MM         3 |  16   8   2   2          2   | 33   |
   | 4MM         3 |   4   2                  1   | 10   |
   | QIC         4 |                              |  4   |
   | 9TK         1 |                              |  1   |
   |---------------|------------------------------|------|
   | TOTALS:    53 |  20  10   2   2          3   | 90   |
   |-----------------------------------------------------|

The remainder of this document is left intact for historic reasons.

SunOS, Solaris Shared Library Problems

If you installed AIPS from a binary load-and-go tape on either SunOS 4 or Solaris 2, and were unable to use the provided binaries because of ld.so: libF77.so.2: not found (or a similar message), get in touch with me (see below) immediately. It turns out that Sun allows us to distribute the above library (and the other Fortran libraries) with AIPS, a fact that was unknown to me/us until recently (end of September 1994, that is).

15JUL94 Release No Longer Available

The current release of AIPS is described at the top of this page, and supercedes the version described here.

The installation testing was performed on these systems:

Sparcstation IPX, SunOS 4.1.2, Fortran/C SC2.0.1 (source and binary)
IBM RS/6000 model 580, AIX 3.2.5 (source and binary)
Dec Alpha AXP 3000/300, OSF/1 1.2 (source and binary)
SparcClassic LX, SunOS 5.3, Fortran/C SC2.0.1 (source and binary)
Gateway 2000 486DX2/66V (Linux 1.1.23) (source and binary)
Silicon Graphics (Irix) via internet (source)

Due to time and space limitations, the HP and Ultrix installations were not tested for this version, nor was the Convex version as NRAO no longer has any Convex systems.

Some of the new features in this release were:

A port to Silicon Graphics (IRIX)
Support in INSTEP1 for binary distributions
much improved tape I/O for Alpha, Linux and Solaris 2.
New tasks (VBGLU, FXPOL) for VLBI data processing
and much more.

Patrick P. Murphy