HEASOFT 5.3.1 released

[Bryan Irby <irby@zambi.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

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*     THE LABORATORY FOR HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS (LHEA)      *
*         AT THE GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC)           *
*           IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF:            *
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*                   HEASOFT VERSION 5.3.1                     *
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*          AN INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SUITE CONSISTING            *
*               OF FTOOLS/FV, XANADU AND XSTAR                *
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Greetings -

The HEASOFT 5.3.1 software suite, which contains FTOOLS 5.3.1,
FV 4.1.2, XANADU 5.3.1 (consists of XIMAGE 4.2.1, XRONOS 5.21,
and XSPEC 11.3.1), and XSTAR 2.1k has been released.  This release
primarily contains "bug fixes" applied to HEASOFT v5.3.  Please
refer to the release notes for full details:

  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/RelNotes_531.html


For additional information about this release, please visit:
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  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools
  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xanadu
  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xstar/xstar.html

There are links from these web pages to the download web page
listed below.


To download the release from LHEA, please visit:
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  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft

The release gzipped tarfiles are also available via anonymous FTP from:

  ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/lheasoft/release


Mirror Sites:
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The same release files will be available soon from our mirror sites
in England:

  http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/lheasoft/

and in Japan:

  http://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/heasarc_mirror/software/lheasoft/


Distributions & Release Notes:
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Both source and binary distributions are available for all supported
platforms:

  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/supported_platforms.html

For detailed installation information, see the files INSTALL.BINARY and
INSTALL.SOURCE, available online at:

  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/install_bin.html (BINARY)
  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/install_src.html (SOURCE)

or by anonymous ftp at:

  ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/lheasoft/release/INSTALL.BINARY
  ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/lheasoft/release/INSTALL.SOURCE

For further details on new features in HEASOFT, please see the release
notes, available online at:

  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/RelNotes_531.html

or by anonymous ftp at:

  ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/lheasoft/release/Release_Notes_5.3.1


Problems with FTP?
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reported difficulties connecting to our (or any other) ftp server.
To work around this problem, modify the above URLs by replacing
the 'ftp://' with 'http://', and insert '/FTP' just after 'nasa.gov'.
For example, change

  ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/lheasoft/release

to

  http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/lheasoft/release


Notices of future HEASOFT Releases
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Notices of HEASOFT releases, patches, and other bits of
important information can also be obtained by an electronic mail
exploder. The list is called ftoolsnotes. Users can add their names
to this list by sending a message to:

                listserv@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov

requesting this action. This message should be sent from the
account and host on which the user would like to receive the
notices. Leave the subject blank and include in the body of the
request the following:

                 subscribe ftoolsnotes name

where "name" is replaced by the user's name.

Bug Reports
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Problems installing or using FTOOLS or FV should be reported via:

        http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ftoolshelp

Problems installing or using XANADU (includes XIMAGE, XRONOS,
and XSPEC) should be reported to:

                xanprob@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov

Problems installing or using XSTAR should be reported to:

                xstarhelp@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov