Bug Fixes and Minor changes since v4.2
bemerge:
Fixed bug related to long strings in CPIX keywords.
fasebin:
Bug fixed so that output files include necessary
keywords (TELESCOP/INSTRUME/FILTER).
Fixed calculation of exposure for fast pulsars.
fcollect:
fdpath parameter can now accept either path or a named file.
In the former case it expects to find a file named "FMI"; in
the latter the named file can be anything that begins with "FMI".
TDISP keyword format corrected to conform to FITS standard.
Now properly handles rare cases where files from multiple
appids exist in the same column in a subsystem index file.
fxbary:
Fixed minor bug affecting reads from output file.
Documentation updated slightly related to hidden/prompted parameters.
grosstimefilt:
Now allows ".gz" suffix when checking existence of input file.
gti2xronwin:
Handles MJDREF vs MJDREFI/F properly. Modified to match new
FSTRUCT parameter list.
hxtarf: hxtback: hxtdead:
FTOOLS v5.0 includes the newest versions of these tools as provided
by the HEXTE team at UCSD. These are identical to the versions which
were previously released as a patch to FTOOLS v4.2.
pcabackest:
Checks SAA dose history file validity
pcaclrsp:
Bugs fixed in handling null input rates.
Accumulation of quaternions handled better.
runpcabackest:
Now more robust in checking for errors in input file list.
saextrct: seextrct:
Case-sensitivity removed for "INDEF" vs. "indef".
Fixed bugs related to timemin/max and timeint merging with gtiand/gtior
which led to loss of the first GTI in some circumstances.
Screen output modified slightly to reflect timeint/timemin/timemax.
Fixed dropped leading digit in screen output for bright sources.
xenon2fits:
Fixed bug in call to Check_Time subroutine which could cause an
error in rare cases for events separated by very small amounts of time.
xtederive:
Fixed bug which caused crashes in rare circumstances.
xtefilt:
Transparent change to interface with fcollect (see above).
Known Bugs in v5.0 RXTE FTOOLS
saextrct: seextrct:
The extractors may bail out complaining about number of GTIs.
Workaround is to run standalone binaries rather than dispatch.
(Affects only IRIX-based systems (ie, SGIs) running the "dispatch"
FTOOLS.)
Large light curve files have a problem such that the first entry
in the TIME column for every new processing cycle (by default every
100000 rows) incorrectly repeats the last time from the previous cycle.
Subsequent rows are all correct. This does not appear to affect the
RATE or other columns.
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