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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Astro::FITS::CFITSIO version 1.0.4
From: Pete Ratzlaff
Date: Sat, May 20 2006 1:52 am
Email: Pete Ratzlaff
Groups: sci.astro.fits

Hello again,

A new version of the Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio
subroutine library is available. For more information on cfitsio, see
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio

The major change in this version of the module is a synchronization
with cfitsio version 3.006, including implementation of functions
accepting 64-bit integer and signed byte arguments. Note that
internally Perl will still use 32-bit integer types unless compiled
with support for 64-bit integer values.

New features in Astro::FITS::CFITSIO 1.04 include:

* Added recent cfitsio routines
fits_open_diskfile
fits_create_diskfile
fits_copy_cell2image
fits_copy_image2cell
fits_translate_keyword
fits_translate_keywords

* Added long long and signed char functions
fits_parse_rangell
fits_binary_tformll
fits_write_tdimll
fits_write_keys_lnglng
fits_write_imghdrll
fits_write_grphdrll
fits_read_key_lnglng
fits_read_tdimll
fits_decode_tdimll
fits_read_keys_lnglng
fits_read_imghdrll
fits_read_atblhdrll
fits_read_btblhdrll
fits_get_hduaddrll
fits_get_img_parmall
fits_create_imgll
fits_insert_imgll
fits_resize_imgll
fits_get_coltypell
fits_get_eqcoltypell
fits_get_num_rowsll
fits_get_bcol_parmsll
fits_read_pixll
fits_read_pixnullll
fits_read_img_sbyt
fits_read_img_lnglng
fits_read_imgnull_sbyt
fits_read_imgnull_lnglng
fits_read_2d_sbyt
fits_read_2d_lnglng
fits_read_3d_sbyt
fits_read_3d_lnglng
fits_read_subset_lnglng
fits_read_subsetnull_sbyt
fits_read_subsetnull_lnglng
fits_read_grppar_lnglng
fits_read_col_sbyt
fits_read_col_lnglng
fits_read_colnull_sbyt
fits_read_colnull_lnglng
fits_read_descriptll
fits_read_descriptsll
fits_write_pixll
fits_write_pixnullll
fits_write_img_sbyt
fits_write_img_lnglng
fits_write_imgnull_sbyt
fits_write_imgnull_lnglng
fits_write_2d_sbyt
fits_write_2d_lnglng
fits_write_3d_sbyt
fits_write_3d_lnglng
fits_write_subset_sbyt
fits_write_subset_lnglng
fits_write_grppar_sbyt
fits_write_grppar_lnglng
fits_write_col_sbyt
fits_write_col_lnglng
fits_write_nullrows
fits_write_colnull_sbyt
fits_write_colnull_lnglng
fits_delete_rowlistll
fits_read_grppar_sbyt
fits_read_subset_sbyt

Version 3.006 of the cfitsio library is required to build this
module. Astro::FITS::CFITSIO has been tested on Linux 2.6 (ix86, Perl
5.8.3) and Solaris 2.8 (Sparc, Perl 5.005).

This version of Astro::FITS::CFITSIO can be obtained at
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~rpete/cf...IO-1.04.tar.gz

And also on your local CPAN mirror
http://cpan.org/authors/id/P/PR/PRAT...IO-1.04.tar.gz

As always, you can find the latest version of Astro::FITS::CFITSIO at
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~rpete/cfitsio

-Pete Ratzlaff