Installation guide for HRI Visual Inspection Software

Current version: hvi2.5.5

Log of Software changes

ROSAT HRI RRA software FTP site

I've placed a tar file of the programs needed to run the HRI checker in
rosat/data/qsrc/software on legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov.

The routine runs under Sun0S using IDL version 3.6 (or later versions
presumably).

NOTE: this version was partly constructed (and verified) on an ALPHA running OSF and IDL 4.0.1

To get it do the following:

create an idl_vi directory
% mkdir idl_vi

define IDL_VI as the directory idl_vi (for example if idl_vi is in
$HOME/rra/idl/idl_vi then

% setenv IDL_VI $HOME/rra/idl/idl_vi

Define IDL_STARTUP as

% setenv IDL_STARTUP $IDL_VI/hvi2.5.5/startup/startup

then

% cd $IDL_VI
% mkdir doc
% ftp legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov
name: anonymous
password: you@your.internet.node
ftp> cd rosat/data/qsrc/software
ftp> bin
ftp> get hvi2.5.5.tar.gz
ftp> lcd doc
ftp> cd doc
ftp> ascii
ftp> mget *
ftp> quit

then, after quitting,

% gunzip hvi2.5.5.tar
% tar -xvf hvi2.5.5.tar (will create $IDL_VI/hvi2.5.5 and subdirectories)
% rm hvi2.5.5.tar (you can get rid of the tar file)

NOTE: THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SUN and ALPHA versions of tar.
SUN users may encounter problems when untarring this file.
If you encounter problems, use the "gtar" utility to untar the file, i.e.
% gtar -xvf hvi2.5.5.tar

You should add $IDL_VI to your IDL_PATH AS THE FIRST ENTRY IN THE PATH

% setenv IDL_PATH +$IDL_VI:+/usr/lib/idl/lib

(assuming the normal IDL libraries (including the ASTRO. USER
        LIB) is in /usr/lib/idl/lib)

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NOTE:
You should remove any old version of HVI2 from $IDL_VI

You may need the versions of the IDLAUL currently in
use at GSFC

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For further instructions, see the file

        $IDL_VI/hvi2users_guide.txt

        (ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/rosat/data/qsrc/www/hvi2users_guide.html)

A log of changes can be found in

        $IDL_VI/doc/CHANGES.2.5.5

Let me know of any problems, etc.

good luck!

Mike Corcoran
(corcoran@barnegat.gsfc.nasa.gov)