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Developer's Guide to FTOOLS
Version 3.6*
(Obsolete!)

The FTOOLS Group

Hughes STX/NASA
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

October 21, 1996

*Warning: Latest version is 5.0 and little of this document still applies. An updated version is expected in Spring 2000.

• Introduction
• Developer's Guide
  • FTOOLS Software Style
  • Package Directory Structure
  • Task Design
  • Task Development
  • Task Integration
    • IRAF Task Integration
    • Host Task Integration
  • General Task Development
  • Sub-package Development
• Dos and Don'ts of FTOOLS Development
  • General Guidelines
  • A Few Specifics
• Binding C and FORTRAN Source Code
• Appendix
• FTOOLS library
• Notices of FTOOLS Releases
• Bug Reports
• About this document ...

FTOOLS HELP DESK

If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]:

Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.

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