Revision history

1. 8th May 1995: Original draft (ACD).

2. 10th October 1995: Version 1 (ACD).

3. 11th April 1996: Version 2. Modified so that the Latex source could be used to create an HTML as well as a paper version (ACD).

4. 31st January 1997: Version 3. Modified for release 2.1 of the CURSA package. The major changes were the addition of the Small Text List (STL) format and the new application catselect (ACD).

5. 8th June 1997: Version 4. Modified for release 3.1 of the CURSA package. The major changes were the new applications catcoord, catchart, catchartrn and catremote (ACD).

6. 10th November 1997: Version 5. Modified for release 4.1 of the CURSA package. The major changes were the new applications for photometric calibration: catphotomfit, catphotomtrn and catphotomlst (ACD).

7. 13th December 1998: Version 6. Modified for release 5.1 of the CURSA package. The major changes were the new application catcdsin and additional formats for reading sexagesimal angles from fixed-format STL catalogues (ACD).

8. 29th November 1999: Version 7. Modified for release 6.1 of the CURSA package. The major changes were the addition of the Tab-Separated Table (TST) format, the new application catgrid and options for plotting scatter-plots and histograms in xcatview (ACD).

9. 25th July 2000: Version 8. Modified for release 6.2 of the CURSA package. Version 6.2 contains no major enhancements, just some minor improvements and bug fixes. The main changes to the document are the removal of the description of the Tab-Separated Table (TST) format, which has been moved to SSN/75 and the inclusion of an additional appendix in the hyper-text version which gives descriptions of individual applications (ACD).

10. 14th May 2001: Version 9. Modified for release 6.3 of the CURSA package. Version 6.3 contains no major changes, but rather a number of enhancements and bug fixes. There are improvements to the applications catcopy and catchart. The facilities to access remote catalogues via the Internet have been completely re-worked. A `quiet mode' has been added to most of the applications. Support for the little-used CHI/HDS catalogue format has been removed.

11. 4th November 2001: Version 10. Modified for release 6.4 of the CURSA package. Version 6.4 contains no major enhancements. Application catheader has been re-worked and now offers various options and more convenient output. A bug in xcatview has been fixed.

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CURSA

Catalogue and Table Manipulation Applications



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