Astronomical Image Processing System
With the advent of the binary versions of AIPS, it has become more difficult to compile special local tasks. If one wants to do this and also take advantage of the improved performance of the NRAO-purchased compilers (Intel for LINUX, LNX64, and MACINT; IBM for MACPPC; SUN for Solaris), the user must purchase the compiler(s) for himself. This can be rather expensive. There are two ways out of this bind. If the local task is of sufficient interest, you could try to pursuade the AIPS group to include it in the general AIPS distribution.
This requires the code to be written up to a least some minimal standard. A recent example is ATLOD which translates older Autralia Telescope data into AIPS. The alternative is to send the code and help file to the AIPS group and ask them to compile to routines, leaving the results on the AIPS ftp site. This has now been done for 4 tasks: HAP and ORFIT in a CfA directory and SETVY and CALIV in a WSRT directory. Both of these site directories are located in a CONTRIB directory at the main AIPS public ftp site.
For more information, please visit http://www.aips.nrao.edu