HEAsoft 5.0, Patch 2

September 25, 2000

Summary of changes in the second patch to HEAsoft 5.0.  This patch is
intended primarily for people using the tools in the XTE subpackage to
analyze RXTE data.
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ASMCHANNEL - Modified to generalize the ASM channel boundaries.

FASEBIN - Corrected a bug which could have caused the tool to fail
          on 64-bit systems (eg, Alphas).
 
FBADD/FBFSUM/FBSUB - Fixed a bug which caused these tools to 
                     crash on Linux systems.

FXBARY - Modified handling of TIMEREF and TIMESYS keywords and of 
         multiple GTIS when called with barytime=no.

         Fixed a bug which was triggered when a leading "+" was included
         in the (optional) dec_str parameter.

PCABACKEST - Changed the default value of the "timeslop" parameter to
             128 seconds.

RBNRMF - Fixed several bugs which caused the tool to generate poor response
         matrices in some cases.

RECOFMI - Enhanced to automatically correct day boundary glitches 
          in FMIs (caused by a bug in the processing pipeline).

REX - Enhanced to use sumpha (see below) in place of mathpha.

      Now also accepts "A/B" as well as "0/1" to specify the HEXTE clusters.

SAEXTRCT/SEEXTRCT - Modified the handling of the TIMEREF keyword in some
                    circumstances (see fxbary, above).

SUMPHA - A new script which calls mathpha internally to add pha files 
         and generates an output file including a merged GTI extension.

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