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+<head>
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+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 1.5 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+1.5 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ul>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.5</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed problem with Windows style Open file dialog box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now supports following coords systems:</tt></li>
+    <ul>
+      <li> <tt>Image (was Logical)</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>CCD (was Physical)</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>Detector (was Mosaic Physical)</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>Amplifier</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>WCS</tt></li>
+    </ul>
+    <li> <tt>New version of Doug Mink's WCS libs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed minor problems with interactive Pan Mode</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added "Source TCL" file support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Open Mosaic Image command</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>Will open multiple fits files as a mosaic.</tt> <br>
+    <tt>Supports following patterns:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>*#.fits</tt> <br>
+    <tt>*_#.fits</tt> <br>
+    <tt>*.IM*.fits</tt> <li><tt>Open Mosaic Segment command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed minor problem with zscale and high energy data</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The Magnifier now Works!</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>There are two algorithms available (under Preferences)</tt> <br>
+    <tt>Magnification can be selected via preferences</tt>
+    <ol>
+      <li> <tt>Fast (and less Accurate)</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>More Accurate (and slower)</tt></li>
+    </ol>
+    <li> <tt>Improvements to Dialogs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now supports (unoffical)FITS data size -16 (unsigned
+short)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Support for byte swapped processors</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Support large images &gt; 8k x 8k</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Loading images are now 10x faster</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Supports BLANK Fits keyword</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>&nbsp;Menu Short Cuts have been added (use Alt key, such
+as
+Alt-f for
+Frame menu)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Horizontal and Verticle Graphs now work in all modes (not
+just Crosshair)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>ds9 will accept fits files via STDIN (ie. $ cat foo.fits
+|
+ds9 -file
+-&nbsp; )</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>command line argument support (ie. $ds9 -? for list)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>crosshair position is more accurate</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added new scales: 'ln' and 'log'.</tt></li>
+    <ol>
+      <li> <tt>ln --&nbsp; SAOimage natural log based algorithm</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>log--&nbsp; IRAF log base 10 algorithm</tt></li>
+    </ol>
+    <li> <tt>Support for Postscript printing (Level 1 and Level 2)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Blinking is now supported</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ul>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 1.6 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+1.6 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ul>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.6.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fix some minor problems with odd chars in filenames</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fix problems with fits image extensions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>removed minimal geometry restrictions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fits file support is more robust</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ul>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
+<html>
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 1.7 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+1.7 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ul>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.7.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixes a rather nasty bug with coordinates.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>XPA version 2.b32</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>example:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9&amp;</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaget DS9 # will list all public access points</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaset -p DS9 colormap BB # change colormap</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaset -p DS9 file snr.fits # load a fits file</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ cat snr.fits | xpaset DS9 fits # load via XPA</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ cat snr.fits | xpaset DS9 fits foo[key=RAWX,RAWY] # load via
+XPA</tt> <br>
+    <tt>Note: xpa class and name for ds9</tt> <br>
+    <tt>-- xpa class : 'DS9'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>-- xpa name&nbsp; : 'DS9'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>both class and name are case sensitive</tt> <br>
+    <tt>To specify a different xpa name for this application use the</tt>
+    <br>
+    <tt>-title command line option:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$
+ds9&amp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+# default name of 'DS9'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 -title foo&amp; # name of 'foo'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaset -p foo colormap BB # change colormap for 'foo'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaset -p :foo colormap A # change colormap for 'foo'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaset -p DS9:foo colormap BB # change colormap for 'foo'</tt>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaset -p DS9: colormap I8 # change colormap for 'DS9 &amp;
+foo'</tt> <li><tt>fixed bug with zscale and minmax preferences</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>geometry command line option: $ ds9 -geometry 600x500</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>Note: this does not include space needed for menus.</tt> <li><tt>default
+wcs is 'fk5'</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.7</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>new version of Fits I/O library</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>.Z, .z, and .gz files are supported</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>example:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 snr.fits.Z</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 snr.fits.z</tt> <li><tt>url's are now supported</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>example:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9
+ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/rosat/data/hri/images/fits/rh100193_img.fits</tt>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9
+http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/rosat/data/cdrom/vol1/IMAGES/00h/p000s26b.img.Z</tt>
+    <li><tt>fixed some minor problems with Mosaic Images</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Support for FITS bin tables</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>example:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 snr.fits[2] # assume 'X' or 'x' and 'Y' or 'y' column</tt>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 snr.fits[EVENTS]</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 snr.fits # assumes EVENTS or STDEVT extension</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 snr.fits[key=RAWX,RAWY] # bin on RAWX/RAWY column</tt> <li><tt>Backward
+compatible with Einstein .xpa data for bining</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Contours are now supported</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>You can generate contours for each frame and cut/paste them
+into
+other frames. When you paste a contour, you choose which coordinate
+system
+to translate the contour into. Obvisously, to paste via WCS, each image
+must have a valid WCS. Printing of image/contours also is supported.</tt>
+    <br>
+    <tt>The contour algorithm currently implemented is a general
+purpose
+algorithm, good for most images. However, there are some issues that
+make
+it less than optimal for sparse high energy data. Therefor, next on the
+list is implemention of the 'Pros Imcontour' algorithm.</tt> <li><tt>Now
+supports ICRS WCS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now Uses Tcl/Tk 8.0.4 and BLT 2.4g</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now uses Doug Minks's wcssubs 2.6.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ul>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
+<html>
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 1.8 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+1.8 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.8</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Dialog windows now use the same colormap as the parent
+window.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with the tile xpa point.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.7</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with updating the Contour dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed another problem with .gz, .Z, and .z</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Coordinate Grids now support WCS of projection TNX.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Improved the appearance of Grids while in Internal Mode.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.6</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with running under linux and displaying
+on
+Solaris.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Truecolor 8 support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Coordinate Grids!</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Mouse coordinates may be printed by pressing the 'C' key.
+Which coordinates
+are printed may be specified via the 'Edit:Preferences:Print
+Coordinates'
+menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Default Region Parameters now can be specified via the
+Preferences
+menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Contour Dialog has been redesigned and Contour scales and
+limits added.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Contour scales log, squared, and
+sqrt.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The user can save and load contours via the Contour
+Parameter
+Dialog
+Box. The contours may be any supported coordinate system.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The user can save and load contour levels via the Contour
+Parameter
+Dialog Box.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with file names that contain .z, .Z, .gz</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.5</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Truecolor 24 bit visuals under
+Solaris 7</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with selecting Ruler Regions that are
+horizontal or
+vertical.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.4</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a major bug with mosaics with an amplifier that
+reads
+out in
+reverse and the data has been flipped before writing.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.3</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>New wcssubs: Fixed a problem with wcs of RA--NCP and
+DEC--NCP</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with 'Scale:User Limits'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Removed a warning message if xpa is not available</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The coordinate info box is updated while editing regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with the window manager closing region
+dialog
+boxes,
+regions list dialog box, and analysis result dialog box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>List Regions, Display Header, and the Analysis Dialog box
+now
+have
+options for printing, saving, and searching the contents.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Display Header now supports multiple dialogs, one for
+each
+frame.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with parsing region files and the LINE
+region.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with polygon regions and PROS region file
+formats.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>All regions are deleted when 'Clear Frame' or 'Open'
+action
+taken.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>When creating Text regions, the 'Cancel' button now works.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>'Clear Frame' has been moved from 'File menu to 'Frame'
+menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>shell variable DS9_ARRAY may be used to define default
+array
+parameters.
+Example: $export DS9_ARRAY='[dim=512,bitpix=-32]'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>shell variable DS9_BINKEY may be used to define default
+FITS
+bin table
+cols. Example: $export DS9_BINKEY='[bin=rawx,rawy]'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>new 'Open Array...' menu item has been added to the
+'File'
+menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Changes to following ommand line options:</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>-array, -mosaicimage, -mosaicimages, -mosaicsegment, -shared</tt>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Add the -iconify command line option.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>FITS Region Binary Table Region file format is supported
+for
+input.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Now using BLT 2.4l</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now using X11R6</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with selecting blink frames multiple
+times.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Line Regions always printing with
+arrows.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem when a printing error occurs.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>External File support is now available.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>External Analysis support is now available.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Frame refresh menu item.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with shared memory size.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>XPA frame has changed. The argument is now only a number,
+not
+a name.
+This clears up some problems with syntax. If the frame does not exists,
+the frame is created. The option 'frameno' is provided for backward
+compatiblity.</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>Example: xpaset -p ds9 frame 2 # goto frame name 'frame2'</tt> <br>
+    <tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xpaset -p ds9
+frame frameno 4 # goto frame name 'frame4'</tt>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.7</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Scale type 'Ln' has been removed.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Contour scales Log, Sqrt, and Squared have been fixed.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Contour Dialog box is now non-modal.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with the FITS Header Dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Support for &gt; 256 colors in truecolor mode.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>New PS level 2 drivers that support more than 256 colors.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Crosshairs will now appear in the magnifier if graphics
+enabled.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Improved on the gui in terms of tile and blink. Now ds9
+is in
+one of
+3 display modes: single frame, tile frames, and blink frames.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>You can now Show or Hide frames, via the Frame:Show/Hide
+menu. When
+a frame is 'Hidden', it does not appear in Single, Tile, or Blink mode,
+and can not be selected via the Frames menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added a new mode: Examine. While in examine mode, if you
+click, a new
+frame is created, loaded with the same data, and scaled about the point
+you clicked. If the base frame is a FITS image, it is zoomed, if the
+base
+frame is a FITS binary table, it is blocked. The file is not loaded
+again,
+but shared between frames, requiring little additional memory. When you
+clear or delete a base frame, all examine frames are deleted. Options
+as
+to how many frames are created and the scale factor may be specified
+via
+the preferences menu.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.9</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Support for FITS Bin Table Type 'U' (unsigned short) and
+Type
+'V' (unsigned
+long). Note these are not supported by the FITS standard.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added new default colormap 'Cool'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>SAOtng and PROS Regions file support: if wcs coords are
+used,
+yet no
+wcs system has been specified, the native wcs of the file is used.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Regions now are available in the magnifier (user
+prerference)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with working with line regions at high
+zoom
+factors</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with working with polygon regions at high
+zoom factors</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.8</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed again problems with FITS Tables, Binning, Physical
+Coords, and
+WCS</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.7</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Binning on a third column is now supported</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with FITS Tables and bit fields</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.6</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Added new 'Zoom to Fit Window' function</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added new 'Block to Fit Window' function</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added 'Block to...' function</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>'Mode' menu has been moved to under 'Edit' menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Show/Hide Panner and Magnifier via the prefs, command
+line,
+and xpa</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Tear-Off menus now have window titles</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>minor changes to xpa options syntax (no more -options),
+see <a href="xpa.html">XPA</a>
+for more info.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>xpa colormap is no longer case sensitive</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with tables and physical coordinates</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with interactive pan/zoom/rotate and
+coordinates</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.5</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with reading IRAF Pros regions files</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.4</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Little Endian Machines and doubles
+in
+FITS bin
+tables</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.3</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Now supports SAOtng regions files in physical coordinates.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Improved Region clipping</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with finding the Preferences File</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a rather nasty bug with rendering Circle Regions.
+This
+bug would
+sometimes cause the X Server to hang.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now does a better job of creating the default size
+regions.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Frame buttons Prev and Next now will cycle thru all
+frames.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.6</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Automatic Tile Mode with multiple files on command line</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed problems with HTTP and FTP access</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed another problem with FITS Bin tables and regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>There are now 2 modes for interactive panning-- default
+click
+to center</tt></li>
+    <ul>
+      <li> <tt>Click to Center (SAOimage method)</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>Drag to Center (Native DS9 method)</tt></li>
+    </ul>
+    <li> <tt>New frames use the current user scale limits and
+colorscale.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added frameno option to FRAME xpa point</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>REGION SAVE FORMAT menu now reflects coords available</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.5</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>New GUI Buttons Bar</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Rearranged Menus, smaller desktop footprint</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>New Tiling algorithms</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Truecolor 8bit support</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ds9 -visual truecolor8</tt> <li><tt>Truecolor 16bit support</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ds9 -visual truecolor16</tt> <li><tt>Truecolor 24bit
+enhancements</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ds9 -visual truecolor24</tt> <li><tt>Pseudocolor 8bit
+enhancements</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ds9 -visual pseudocolor8</tt> <li><tt>Regions Modes now
+intergrated into Pointer Mode</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>New colormaps have been added</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with FITS ext names</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Editing RECTANGLE regions resizes about the opposite
+node,
+not the
+center</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Polished the GUI for creating regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>list/save regions in saoimage format now outputs points</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with existing regions and blocking</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.4.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed problem with rotate mode and updating menus</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.4</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>24 bit color support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>New Postscript drivers</tt></li>
+    <ul>
+      <li> <tt>CMYK support</tt></li>
+      <li> <tt>Variable resolution</tt></li>
+    </ul>
+    <li> <tt>Online Documentation!</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Physical Coordinates and FITS Bin
+Tables</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Sticky file names have been implemented</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with standard dialogs and double/triple
+clicks</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>If Header window is open, load will display the new header</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Delete Frame now asks for confirmation</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with arrays and xpa</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with FITS keyword inheritance</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>for FITS bin tables, the keywords BIN, BINKEY, and KEY
+are
+equivalent</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with regions and tiled frames</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Keystroke shortcuts have been added to the GUI</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added WCS menu items to preferences saved</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added 'Clear Preferences' to preferences menu</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Mouse button 2 is now bound to 'Pan' function</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Minor changes to layout of Small and Large Infomation
+Panel</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed problem with pseudocolor 8 and private colormaps</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.3</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with arrays and xpa</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>xpaget regions: you now can specify
+coord/coordformat/format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>$ xpaget ds9 regions -format pros -coord fk4 -coordformat
+hms</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Interactive rotation is now works!</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>PanZoom Dialog and Rotate Dialog now have 'Apply' buttons</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Preferences have been implemented. 'Save Preferences'
+will
+save the
+current values of the 'Preferences' and 'View' menus in
+$HOME/.ds9.prefs.
+On startup, this values will be used.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Source user tcl file has been implemented. If $HOME/.ds9
+exists, it
+will be sourced on start up.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>New Standard Dialog box has been implemented. User now
+has a
+choice
+of motif, windows, or 'blue plate special' dialog boxes.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>'$ xpaget ds9 file' now returns full file name</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>More tolerant of non-existent or bad files.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>More robust checking of mosaic files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>FITS keyword inheritance is now supported.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Mosaic Multiple Extension Fits files are now supported.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Coordinate name 'CCD' has been changed to 'Physical'</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Support for raw data arrays</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 "foo.arr[xdim=512,ydim=512,bitpix=-32]"</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 "foo.arr[xdim=512,ydim=512,bitpix=16,skip=100]"</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 "foo.arr[dim=1024,bitpix=8,bigendian]"</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ ds9 "foo.arr[dim=1024,bitpix=8,arch=littleendian]"</tt> <li><tt>xpa
+support for raw data arrays</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$ cat foo.arr | xpaset ds9 array "[dim=512,bitpix=16]"</tt>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.1.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed problem with printing</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.1.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fix problem with change of xpa api</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fix blockfactor,blockbuffersize, and blockfunction
+command
+line options.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed problem with Marker type Line Dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added new marker type: Ruler.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed major problem with regions files and loading via
+xpa.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added arrows to line marker.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>more robust error handling.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>bin table extension names and column names are no longer
+case
+sensitive.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed problem with printing to different page sizes</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.8</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a major memory leak</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a XPA printing problem</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed problem with LOG scale</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>the xpa application name is now "ds9".</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>the xpa class name is now "DS9"</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>example:</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaget ds9 version # get version number from just ds9</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$ xpaget DS9:ds9 version # get version number from just ds9</tt>
+    <li><tt>$ xpaget DS9: version # get version number for all DS9 apps</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Markers!</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<html>
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 1.9 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+1.9 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.8</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with listing regions that are very long.
+the
+size limit
+has been increased from 1024 to 8192</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>completed MS Windows port</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with large polygons in FITS Regions bin
+table
+format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>ds9 will now correctly load a FITS Extension image
+without a
+primary
+header</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>xpa wcs [reset|replace|append] function added</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>the default nameserver is now 'simbad-sao'</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.7.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with reading arrays via xpa and extra
+data an
+the end
+of the image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with region callbacks and actions on
+regions
+within
+the callback</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a memory leak with deleteing polygon vertices</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>double click on region with select=0 no longers opens a
+dialog</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added select property to ds9 region properties list</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>for default annulus, ellipse annulus, box annulus, the
+number
+of annuli
+is now used when the user click and drags</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with ellipse annulus and box annulus and
+zero
+inner
+radius</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with box and boxannuls and updating the
+region dialog
+coords</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with turning off/on active frames</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with saving fits images created from a
+fits
+image extension</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added new 'new' option to xpa points 'FITS' and 'ARRAY'
+to
+create a
+new frame before loading the new image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>completed port HP-UX</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.7.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with prefs and sourcing external tcl files</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.7</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>mktclapp is now used to build the application from tcl</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with HMS and hour=0</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with parseing old ds9 region files and
+'global'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>support for SAOtng Regions file format has been restored</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>upgraded to tcl/tk 8.3.2</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>upgraded to blt2.4u</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>minor changes made to ciao regions file format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with Ciao FITS regions files</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.6</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Added Truecolor Colorbar preference</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fitsy++ now supports fixed and free format keyword
+strings
+correctly</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>While in 'Pan' mode, the arrow keys may be used to pan
+the
+image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Custom Page Setup in mm is now supported</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Region Text string can now contain both a ' and "</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Region File format for text now supports the following
+text
+strings:</tt></li>
+    <ol>
+      <tt>text="This is a test"</tt> <br>
+      <tt>text="This is a test of '"</tt> <br>
+      <tt>text='This is a test of "'</tt> <br>
+      <tt>text={This is a test of ' and "}</tt>
+    </ol>
+    <li> <tt>DS9 will now correctly parse a regions spec with a delim
+of
+';'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>XPA tcl command now runs in the same context frame as
+source
+and ds9</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with the Colorbar contrat/bias dialog and
+truecolor</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with BOX list/save format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with contours in that one extra level was
+generated
+when using the low/high and number of contours controls</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Updated to Doug Mink's wcssub version 2.8.1, which fixes
+a
+problem
+with keywords without an '='</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with printing Region Text with '(', ')',
+or
+'\' in
+it.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Region file format is now valid for both reading and
+writing
+Region
+files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Implemented new Regions file format, version 3</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with IRAF and the 'f' and 'c' keys</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Images with odd length will center on pixel boundaries</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The number of bins if determined from TLMIN/TLMAX will
+now
+vary, based
+on column type (integer or real). The bin space for integer is TLMIN-.5
+to TLMAX +.5 and for real TLMIN to TLMAX.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Binning Dialog box is now non-modal</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Made improvements in the resolution of coordinates</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added the -version command line option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with bad name resolution and NED-SAO</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with -grid and -contour command line
+options</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add -format, -coord, -coordformat, and -delim to xpaget
+regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added FITS bin table filtering</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Changed XPA BLOCK to BIN</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>bin factors of less than 1 but greater that 0 are now
+allowed</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with ecliptic coords and FITS BIN TABLES
+with
+wcs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with contours and high resolution values</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added algorithm method to contours</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with contours and re-binning a FITS bin
+table</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Changes to BIN commandline options to mirror BIN xpa
+options</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added raise/lower command line options</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added raise/lower xpa options</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Cut/Paste to/from the primary selection is now provided</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added new type of grid, Exterior Axis with interior
+numerics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed problems with grid numerics and rotation of non-zero</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with graphs and no FITS loaded</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Regions Delimiter menu</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added ANNULUS, ELLIPSE ANNULUS, and BOX ANNULUS regions</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.5</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Saving FITS images on byte swaped
+platforms</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>FITS Bin table support now uses TLMIN/TLMAX to determine
+binning buffersize
+up to the user specified limit</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed the XPA Regions format,coord, and coordformat calls</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Changed the behavior of $xpaget ds9 regions
+[format|coord|coordformat]</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.4</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Added ability to save a FITS bin table as a FITS image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added xpa point to support the above</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with loading arrays</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added support for the Rosat All Sky Survey</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added command line support for DSS and RASS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with displaying LINEAR WCS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>DS9 is now much more tolarent of FITS files in which the
+data
+segment
+is short in size, ie, is not a multiple of FITBLOCK (2880 bytes)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with FITS files with headers with 100's
+or
+1000's of
+comments or history keywords</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Enhanced Preferences support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The information panel is now updated during blinking</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with long frame names</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added new fuctionality to the 'Frame' xpa point</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a memory problem that caused problems with the
+Alpha
+port</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with regions in sexagesimal format and
+NATIVE
+WCS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>DS9 is now much mor tolerant of sexagesimal format
+regions
+that do
+not map directly on top of a image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Implemented the new default region format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Polygon regions and creating/moving
+vertices</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Colormap Contrast and Bias Dialog</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Box regions and negative width and
+height</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Angle has been added to the Ruler Region dialog box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Length has been added to the Line Region dialog box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Region Text and the '"' character</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added XPA point for DSS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added XPA point for RASS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added XPA point for Name Servers</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with rotated Regions and IRAF images</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added XPA point xpaget fits</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added XPA point xpaset file save &lt;filename&gt;</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>xpa regions may now be delimited by nl or semicolon</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.3</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with preferences. The prefs file was not
+parsed.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with xpaset ds9 fits and multiple ext
+fits
+files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed some minor problems with xpa and blink,frame</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added xpaset ds9 frame [first|next|prev|last]</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added printing of pixel tables</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Copy/Paste support for pixel tables</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with changing the size of pixel tables</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>'F' toggles Info Pannel 'freeze' mode.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Full shared memory support has been added</tt></li>
+    <br>
+    <tt>$xpaget ds9 shm</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$xpaset -p ds9 shm 102 8640</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$xpaset -p ds9 shm shmid 102 8640 foo[2]</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$xpaset -p ds9 shm mosaicimage key 100 10240 foo</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$xpaset -p ds9 shm mosaic key 100 10240 foo[3]</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$xpaset -p ds9 shm array shmid 102 8640 [dim=32,bitpix=16]</tt>
+    <p><tt>$xpaset -p ds9 update 1 100 100 200 200 # update HDU1 in
+image coords</tt> <br>
+    <tt>$xpaset -p ds9 update 3 400 400 500 500 # update HDU3 in image
+coords</tt></p>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed yet another problem with contours</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with loading arrays with bitpix of -64</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed the 'Analysis' menu item 'DSS'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>provided for more backward compatibility with old
+preference
+files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with IRAF support and changing buffer
+sizes</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with contours and reading incorrectly
+levels</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with printing and pan/rotation/zoom</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Grid Rotated numbers and MSB/LSB
+cross-platform</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 1.9</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>DS9 now supports IRAF!</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>point regions now have the include/exclude property</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>crosshairs will now print</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with contours and the contour dialog is
+visible</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with the wcs of FITS files with very long
+headers</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added Pixel Table feature</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>contours now appear in the magnifier with graphics enabled</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>John Roll's Tcl Ast package has been added</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>DS9 is now more tolerant of 'SIMPLE = F' type FITS files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with render speed in single frame mode
+and
+multiple
+frames loaded</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The Pan Zoom Rotate Dialog Box is now Non-Modal</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Name Resolution support has been added</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>DSS support has been added</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>A problem with contours has been corrected. if contours
+levels = n,
+then n+1 contours are actually rendered</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>DEC Alphas are now supported</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>SGI is now supported</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>LINEAR WCS is now fully supported</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
+</body>
+</html>
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+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 2.0 Release Notes</title>
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+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+2.0 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.0</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>changed xpa tcl received to remove eval statement</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem clearing the magnifier in the windows
+version</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>implemented a work around for a bug in dvips version 5.55
+and
+level
+2 postscript driver</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>filename with a space in them will now load correctly</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with FITS Regions Files and optional
+columns</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
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+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+2.1 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>04.05.2002 fixed a problem with xpa contour load.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.22.2002 ds9 version 2.1 released to the public.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.1b7</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>04.02.2002 upgrade to XPA 2.1.0e2. This fixes a problem
+with
+xpa and
+linux/linuxppc.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.03.2002 fixed a problem with AST. plot.c, line 19463,
+change parameter
+'force' from 1 to 0 in call to 'CheckLabels'. Sometimes we were seeing
+adj labels that where the same. This change makes sure that the labels
+are 'reduced' if we have this condition.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.03.2002 ds9 will now automatically open as a bin table
+fits extension
+named EVENTS, STDEVT, and RAYEVENT.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.03.2002 when trying to find an image to open in relax
+mode
+(ie the
+use did not specify an extension), ds9 will not find a valid image if
+the
+length of either axis is 0.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.03.2002 now check for Ghostscript version 6.50 or
+higher
+when invoking
+Save As.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.03.2002 add help application preference. Users can now
+choose between
+Netscape and Mozilla as the prefered help application.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.04.2002 ds9 version 2.1b7 released to the public.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.1b6</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>02.04.2002 upgraded to ast version 1.8.6. Modified ast to
+use
+sscanf()
+for all platforms except Darwin. Darwin uses astSscanf(), which works
+around
+a problem with sscanf() on MacOSX, with format strings of the following
+format: sscanf(str, " %s %n", foo, &amp;nc).</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.04.2002 changed fity++ primary_/head_ header
+relationship.
+primary_
+is only set if there is a primary header is available and different
+from
+head_.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.04.2002 wsc's are init'd with both the head_ and the
+primary_ (if
+available) to handle the case where wcs keywords are spread between hdu
+nd primary headers in mulitiple extension files.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.06.2002 all xpa commands are now 'catch{}' to invoke a
+procedure
+that will unwind the watch cursor stack. Hopefully, no more stuck watch
+cursors.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.07.2002 add <i>color</i> and <i>width</i> parameters
+to
+contours
+paste command. defaults are <i>green</i> and <i>1</i></tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.08.2002 fixed a problem with the FRAME menu. It was
+cutting off
+the last separator.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.12.2002 AST grid still does not support ICRS properly.
+When a user
+sets the coordinate system to ICRS, the actually parameters sent to the
+AST grid code is FK5</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.13.2002 for XPA points array, fits, regions, and wcs
+(fillbuf=false),
+manually flush the buffer at the end to make sure no data is left</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.13.2002 ecliptic coords from wcssubs corrected by new
+version of
+wcs/wcscon.c</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.13.2002 AST grids, corrected the MDJ-OBS keyword
+generated
+to generate
+the correct EPOCH.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.13.2002 adjusted the EQUINOX value for ECLIPTIC coords
+for
+ast grids
+to agree with wcssubs. Seems for ecliptic coords, wcssubs and ast use
+two
+slightly different interpretations of the EQUINOX value.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.13.2002 fixed a problem with histogram equalization
+introduced in
+version 2.1b5.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.14.2002 fixed a problem with titles in plot(stdin). We
+now
+take
+the first line, and starting from the end, pick off the dimension, x
+and
+y axis titles, and the remainder is taken as the plot title. It can
+contain
+spaces and special characters such as '[]'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.14.2002 add 'Always create new plot' option to prefs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.14.2002 add multiple analysis plots, unless prefs are
+unset</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.14.2002 change default annulus and panda to 1 annuli</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.14.2002 enable multiple array loads via blueplate
+dialog</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.14.2002 reset,append, and replace wcs now processes
+OBJECT
+keyword</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.15.2002 fixed a problem with grid format of degrees.
+Sometimes,
+the incorrect format would be used. This was corrected by up'ng the
+number
+of digits displayed to d.3</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.21.2002 upgraded to AST 1.8.7</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.21.2002 upgraded to WCS 3.0.7</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.22.2002 fixed a problem with Ascii Tables in fitsy++.
+The
+column
+offset is now calculated from TBCOLn if present.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.22.2002 simplied columns in fitsy++. Now all columns
+have
+a value(char*
+ptr, int i) and str(char* ptr, int i) procedure.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.22.2002 add support for HST WFPC2 mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.25.2002 fixed a problem with 'marker command'. The
+command
+STRING
+must be quoted by '\{' '\}' before being pasted to the Frame parser.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 add $ERROR/ERROR: support for analysis
+$plot(stdin) macro.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 analysis menus now support multiple levels of
+hierarchical
+menus</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 multiple hierarchical menus may have the same
+label</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 hierarchical menu label may have an imbedded
+spaces</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 add endhmenu endparam to analysis file parser</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 analysis file text maybe indented</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.26.2002 add help support to analysis file</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.27.2002 add $BEGINTEXT/$ENDTEXT to $plot(stdin) macro</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.27.2002 add xpa get fits [type|image|table] command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.27.2002 minor tweak with the File:Save as menu</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.27.2002 clean up some minor memory leaks with
+FitsImage::initwcs()</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>02.27.2002 fixed a problem in dialog.tcl DialogWait and
+reseting errorInfo</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.01.2002 dss non-save file now uses internal gz</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.04.2002 plot windows can now support a second set of y
+and
+error
+values.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.05.2002 add debug iis option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.05.2002 filenames now always reflect fits extension
+name/number
+and filter.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.05.2002 the last step in analysis commands now
+replaces
+all ']['
+with ',', building up readable filters.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.06.2002 updated nan.C and nan.h to reflect erics new
+treatment of
+alpha</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.08.2002 add support for save fits gz</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.12.2002 keywords BSCALE/BZERO/BLANK are now ignored
+for
+FITS IEEE
+floating point data</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.12.2002 IEEE nan and inf are supported as valid FITS
+IEEE
+floating
+point data</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.13.2002 add fits.sh test suite which tests for bitpix
+=
+8,16,32,-32,-64
+and BLANK,BSCALE,BZERO keywords, and IEEE floating point data NaN and
+INF.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.15.2002 add save resample support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.18.2002 add support for Mosaic Fast Render. Only valid
+for
+IRAF
+mosaics. Basically, you track the current fitsimage til you have miss.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.19.2002 upgrade XPA 2.1.0e</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.19.2002 upgrade FILTER 1.1.0e</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.19.2002 upgrade FITSY 1.1.0e</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.19.2002 fixed a problem when a user CUT a region that
+had
+a dialog
+box open. A CUT operation now calls the delete callback to remove any
+pending
+dialog boxes.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.19.2002 fixed a problem with -print command line
+option
+for truecolor
+visuals. We need to make sure that the window is realized so that the
+colormap
+has been created.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>03.20.2002 ds9 version 2.1b6 released to the public</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.1b5</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with bogus wcs data and replace wcs xpa
+command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add view tickmarks to grid dialog box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with loading a custom colormap and then
+printing</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add command line/xpa option load colormap file</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed problems with grid dialog box and switching between
+frames</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add command line option pan</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add command line option about</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add command line option view</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>gzip compression is now built-in</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add xpa fits [mosaic|mosaicimage]</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with loading arrays via stdin</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with the panda region and rotation</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>improved performance in plotting of large data sets</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with xpa analysis plot stdin and ';' in
+the
+title</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>increased the histequ internal buffer size to 16k</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>enhance xpa analysis load command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add multiple preload analysis files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add hiearch analysis menus</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed cancel support for Namesvr</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed cancel support for DSS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add virtual observatory support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add jpeg,tiff,pgn,ppm support, via ghostscript</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fix a problem with min/max and DATASEC</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added 'load incr' commands</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added 'load xxxxx incr' command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed minor memory leaks</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added analysis command log</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add xpa grid load/save</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add command line option grid</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with loading fits from a stream where the
+primary hdu
+contains an image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>enhance xpa/command support for dss</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add nameserver command line option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fix a problem with panner and magnifer preferences</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a issue when gz files are a few bytes short</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add support for wcs mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added support for wcs grids for all types of mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>speed up printing by factor of 5</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add new grid type</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>updated to wcssubs 3.0.5</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>updated to ast 1.8.3</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>updated to filter 1.0b9</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>updated to fitsy 1.0b9</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>command line options -file, -mosaic, -mosaicimage,
+-array,
+-url are
+now modal</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add -debug [options] support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with contours and NAN data</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with contours and DATASEC</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>split the pros, saoimage, and saotng parsers</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with text with the saotng parser</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with saotng,saoimage, and pros regions
+parsers and
+\n terminators</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add thin width contours</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add thin width grids</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with iraf mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.31.2001 Physical, Amplifier, and Detector coordinates
+are
+only displayed
+if keywords are present</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.1.2001 Diplay header will display primary header if
+requested</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.1.2001 add xpa cmap value command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.2.2001 removed support for analysis with files with
+spaces
+cause
+it created a problem with filename with extensions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.2.2001 fixed a problem with analysis regions files and
+special characters
+that was causing a problem with ellipse annlus</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.2.2001 add analysis $file[$region] macro</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.8.2001 fixed a problem with saving pixel table data</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.8.2001 add John Rolls new blueplate special stand
+dialog
+box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.8.2001 removed 'Open Mosaic Images', since you can now
+do
+the same
+from the dialog box</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.8.2001 fixed a problem with printing/saving text from
+SimpleTextDialog</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.9.2001 load muliple files is now much faster</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.13.2001 fixed a problem with Simple List Box and
+windows</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.13.2001 default standard dialog box for windows is now
+the
+windows
+default</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.3.2001 expand update to update [now]</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.4.2001 fitsy++ now promotes all keyword finds to
+uppercase</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.4.2001 add 'get fits header # keyword &lt;str&gt;'
+command</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.4.2001 fix a problem with selecting projection region
+at
+high zoom
+factors</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.5.2001 fixed problems with length and orientation of
+projection
+region</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.6.2001 change 'get data values' syntax to include fits
+#</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.14.2001 fixed a problem with mosaics with linear wcs
+that
+caused
+a core</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.31.2001 supported added for regions and mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.2.2002 projection regions now support mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.3.2002 updated xparemote with proxy support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.3.2002 add vo prefs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.4.2002 add ciao pie region support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.7.2002 fixed panda and wcs with rotation problem</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.9.2002 uprade ast to version 1.8.4</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.15.2002 enable Blt_ZoomStack for data plots</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.17.2002 fixed a problem with iraf mosaics with flipped
+segments and
+a round off problem</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.18.2002 add support for multiple aux contours</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.23.2002 fixed a problem with fits headers and the END
+keyword is
+not 8 chars</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.23.2002 fixed many problems with no fits loaded and
+user
+gui actions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.24.2002 fixed a problem with looking for fits region
+extensions and
+a filter specified</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.24.2002 add regions file format and coord system to
+prefs
+menu</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.25.2002 get data values now spans mosaics and is in
+native
+coords</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>1.31.2002 ds9 version 2.1b5 released to the public</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.1b4</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem very, very large images and int overflow</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add Page Setup preferences</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>plot data is filtered to remove all non numeric data</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with plotting x,y data on alpha</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add manual grid layout</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>text regions can now be rotated</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>regions text now appears in the magnifier</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added the PANDA region</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added analysis file macro $entry</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with multiple menu entries for analysis
+files
+with
+multiple file templates</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>default values of Analysis file parameters are now updated</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with clear analysis commands</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>analysis tasks are now non-blocking</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add xy regions file format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed problem with ps level 2 psuedocolor8 printing and
+inverse colormaps</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>in regions files, the comment char '#' comments out til a
+new-line
+char</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>extended $regions macro to include multiple properties
+and
+regions
+format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with loading array data on a little
+endian
+machine
+and the arch is not specified</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with histogram equalization</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a major problem with all negative float or double
+data
+and min/max
+issues</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with $regions and no wcs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with printing ps level 2 and fits with NAN</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with running on a msb machine, and
+displaying
+on a
+lsb 24bit machine</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>unrolled all mosaic algorithms to cycle thru all segments
+for
+each
+pixel</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add DATASEC for rendering and printing</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>upgraded to tcl/tk 8.3.3</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add http and ftp macro expand to analysis</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with contour log scale</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add button 2 bindinds for panner</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>iraf -fifo default is now /dev/imt1</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>commented out error messages for bad iraf -fifo, -port,
+-unix</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add default imtoolrc values to fb_config if no imtoolrc
+file
+is found
+at startup</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add iis support for windows port</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add command: get data coordsys x y dx dy var</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add plot limits to plot tool</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add PROJECTION region</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add GETURL analysis macro</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fits bin table keywords TUNITx are now process if
+available</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add $filename(root) macro</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>update filename on load</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with Colormaps with a name with a single
+character</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>added iraf 'non-display' imexamine support</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.1b3</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with angles of regions specified in WCS</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add xpa point 'regions save'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>add xpa point 'regions load'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>regions file format <i>SAOIMAGE</i> now supports
+annulus,
+ellipse annulus,
+and box annulus</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>the obsolete <i>Ftools</i> regions file format support
+has
+been removed</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed many problems with <i>IRAF</i> regions file format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed many problems with <i>CIAO</i> regions file format</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>removed all support for Rosat All Sky Survey</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>all comments and global settings have been removed from
+regions output
+if delimiter is set to semicolon</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with regions defined in WCS degrees and
+do
+not lie
+on an image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with ellipse annulus and box annulus
+regions
+in regions
+files that contain only one region</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>check for radius of length 0 for circle, annulus,
+ellipse,
+and ellipse
+annulus</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Histogram Equalization colormap scale distribution</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>removed <i>default</i> as font option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>default font is now <i>helvetica</i></tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>changed command line option -regionfile to -region</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with command line option -region and
+incorrect coordinates</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Change the 'Scale:User Limits...' dialog into non-modal
+'Scale Parameters...'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added 'ZMax' Scale Limits algorithm</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>fixed a problem with loading regions files with full
+pathnames with
+'fits' in them</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Updated Prefs, command line options, and xpa points to
+reflect the
+new way minmax and scale options are handled</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Removed 'Scan On Load' prefs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added 'Source/Background' region property</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add support for 'Source/Background' region property to
+SAOtng
+region
+parser</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a color problem with pseudocolor 8 frames and
+black/white. This
+showed up in new Sun hardware and Solaris 8 sofware</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with Postscript printing in pseudocolor 8
+colormode</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>The magnifier now updates during blinking</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added pixel table commands to command line options and xpa</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add -single command line option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add default region shape to preferences</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>New Analysis File format supported, with new macros
+$message,
+$text,
+$plot</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add -analysis command line option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add subcommands to xpa <i>analysis:</i>
+load,clear,message,text,plot</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add Analysis File macros $data and $image</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add autoload FITS regions option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add load FITS Region file to command line options and xpa
+regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>DSS servers now have limits as to size of image downloaded</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Open Array now presents a dialog box if no specs are given</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Now supports compression with .ftz extension</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>All non-modal windows raise to top when re-invoked</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Added Line Width to all regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Comments are now retained for regions files</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add Line Width to contours</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Changed xpa delim to strip yes/no</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Contour methods are 'Faster' and 'Better'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add Convert Contours to polygons</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add $xpa analysis macro</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add $param analysis macros</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with crosshair and rebinning</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with pan click and drag and fits binary
+tables</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add undo regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add cut/copy/paste regions</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Changed the preferences file and startup file to be
+consistent across
+platforms</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add 'Pan then Zoom' to button 2 options</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add support for FITS 3D data cubes</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add Edit button row</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add default mode to prefs</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Fixed a problem with file names starting with 'file'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>Add xpa regions shape/color/width</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
+</body>
+</html>
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+  <title>DS9 Version 2.2 Release Notes</title>
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+<h3>
+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+2.2 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.2.1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>11.04.2002 fixed bin smooth buttons.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.07.2002 remove debug statements in dss.tcl</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.07.2002 fixed a problem with pure virtual method
+called
+when frame
+was deleted and histequ was the active scale.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.07.2002 fixed a problem with pasting filters that
+contains
+'\n'
+on the end of the string.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.14.2002 add W3Browse to archive menu</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.14.2002 Web Display: for redirection, first use
+'location'
+meta
+data parameter, then look for first 'href' in html to find the
+redirection
+url.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.14.2002 move 'IISInit' after 'ProcessCommandLine' so
+that
+iis command
+line options take affect.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.14.2002 remove menu short cut options. Too many
+conflicts
+and unable
+to support multiple languages.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.18.2002 change prefs(scalemode) to prefs(scale,mode),
+prefs(scalescope)
+to prefs(scale,scope) and added prefs(scale,scope) to prefs written.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.18.2002 change prefs(minmaxmode) to
+prefs(minmax,mode),
+prefs(minmaxsample)
+to prefs(minmax,sample)</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.18.2002 changes to Archive Servers preferences take
+effect
+immediately.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.19.2002 Web Display: improved support for fits
+mime-types.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.20.2002 Web Display: improved HVVerifyURL repairing
+urls.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.20.2002 Archive: add IRAS MSX support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.22.2002 add 'update now' when a new display is
+received.
+This will
+allow 'movies' from iraf to display properly.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>11.22.2002 ds9 version 2.2.1 released to the public.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.2</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>09.03.2002 add Archive Server user prefs.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.03.2002 when HV window is unable to parse input, place
+a
+html header
+around it and display it as text.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.04.2002 update FITS Bin Table WCS keywords to conform
+to
+25 June
+2002 WCS FITS Documentation.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.04.2002 add support for FITS Bin Table Alt WCS
+keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.04.2002 corrected minor errors in xpa documentation.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.04.2002 fixed a minor memory leak when frame is
+deleted
+and an image
+is still loaded.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.05.2002 added IPAC NED to archive menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.05.2002 add 'marker # move to canvas x y' command for
+CXC.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.05.2002 add 'marker # angle' command for CXC.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.09.2002 change ds9 regions syntax for ellipse annulus
+and
+box annulus
+from old saoimage to funtools syntax.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.10.2002 undid grid WIDGETBB fix. The results where not
+acceptable.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.12.2002 fixed a nasty bug with binning FITS bin tables
+and
+high
+bin factor values.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.13.2002 add Match Scales to Frame menu. This matches
+all
+scale parameters
+across all frames.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.16.2002 add Grid debug option.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.17.2002 upgrade to ast 1.8.9. This corrected two
+problems.
+First,
+incorrect grids were generated for dss images in the southern
+hemisphere.
+Second, a problem with galactic grids that crossed 0 degrees.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.17.2002 modify grid code to not to set attributes
+unless
+really
+needed. ast 1.8.9 tends to set attributes much more often than previous
+versions.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.17.2002 fixed a problem with reconizing non-standard
+wcs
+in the
+header.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.17.2002 add more xpa grid support for coordinate
+systems,
+grid type,
+and view options.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.18.2002 fixed grid axes label and title spacing
+problems
+in publication
+mode.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.18.2002 add optional grid axes label and title spacing
+parameters
+that override internal calculated values.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.18.2002 the grid x-axis is now plotted on the bottom
+of
+publication
+grid.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.18.2002 zoom to fit now makes room for labels for
+publication grid.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.19.2002 fixed a problem with Clear Analysis File that
+deleted too
+much of the Analysis Menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.19.2002 support new vo list syntax of a tab delimited
+newline terminated
+list of three parameters, xpa, title, and url.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.20.2002 PHYSICAL Coordinate System: first look for
+WCSNAMEx='PHYSICAL',
+then look for LTM/LTV keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.24.2002 fixed yet another bug with binning, and
+TLMIN/TLMAX keywords
+whose values were not powers of 2.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.24.2002 fixed a problem with cores and bad wcs grids.
+ds9
+now checks
+to make sure ast generated a vaild grid.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.24.2002 WebDisplay: plain text is now displayed using
+&lt;pre&gt;.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.24.2002 WebDisplay: default method for forms is now
+GET.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.24.2002 WebDisplay: default width for TEXT form
+elements
+is 20</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.24.2002 XPA nameserver: http has a error, so just
+clear
+errorInfo.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.25.2002 fixed a bug in wcsinit.c, line 328 and line
+409.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.25.2002 add Debug Bin option.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.26.2002 upgrade to xpa 2.1.3</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.26.2002 upgrade to wcssubs 3.1.3</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.26.2002 upgrade to filter 1.2b1</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>09.26.2002 upgrade to fitsy 1.2b1</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.01.2002 Web Display: more robust URL parseing</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.01.2002 Web Display: add 'Save to Fits File' option</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.01.2002 fixed 'xpaget ds9 bin cols' to return only 2
+cols
+if bin
+depth is 1.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.07.2002 Web Display: add support for new window with
+button click.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.08.2002 Change in saotk Makefiles to correct a problem
+with Bison
+and Flex.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.08.2002 Analysis Text now updates as text arrives.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.08.2002 add xpa/command line support for MatchFrames.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.08.2002 don't write WCS for Save Fits Resample and DSS
+fits.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.10.2002 Web Display: hidden fields are not totally
+encoded
+if url
+is present.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.17.2002 Fixed a problem with default fonts. Add the
+option
+of 'Default',
+which will not set any font options, if selected. This allows the
+native
+system to choose the best font/size combo.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.18.2002 Add ProcessFrameCmd.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.18.2002 Add system wide preference file support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.18.2002 Add Default mode. It just updates the infobox
+and
+graphs,
+with no regions.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.21.2002 Fixed a problem with old prefs files and
+marker(system).</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.22.2002 Fixed a problem with MINMAX Sample. Sample
+intervals are
+now equal in row and columns.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.25.2002 Fixed a problem with vo and errors that occur
+when
+connecting
+to the vo server.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.25.2002 Add Match Colorbars and Match Scales
+xpa/command
+line options.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.25.2002 Changed Analysis plot error reporting to
+include
+first line
+of received data.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.25.2002 Fixed a problem with DSS and editing the
+dialog
+with another
+image loaded.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.27.2002 Add filename to ds9/funtools regions file
+header.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.29.2002 Add Lock Crosshairs xpa/command line options.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>10.31.2002 ds9 version 2.2 released to public.</tt></li>
+    <h4> <b>Version 2.2b2</b></h4>
+  </ol>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>07.31.2002 fixed a problem with hv and urls of the form
+foo.com/foo/bar.html#foo.
+Now, the html is not reloaded before the goto is executed.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.01.2002 add adjust text size support to web browser</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.01.2002 add boxcar and tophat smooth support for
+binning.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.05.2002 add -vo commandline and xpa support</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.05.2002 fixed a problem for the windows port where
+windows
+has been
+configured to open a fits file with ds9. In this case, the file path
+name
+passed to ds9 is actually in 'dos' format. So we used a cygwin function
+to convert to a posix format. This only occurs in a command line file
+name
+option.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.06.2002 fixed a problem with smooth and depth&gt;1.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.06.2002 fixed a problem with save fits resample.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.07.2002 the user can now display the horz and vert
+graphs,
+even
+in tile or blink mode</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.07.2002 ds9 will operate in single mode, even if in
+tile
+or blink
+mode, if there is just one frame.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.08.2002 add Gaussian smooth support for binning.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.08.2002 fixed a problem with the plot tool and
+displaying
+discrete
+x y e1 y2 data. The correct colors are now used.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.08.2002 the plot tool will now always update the plot
+title, x axis
+label, and y axis label when receiving new data.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.08.2002 add xpaset -p ds9 analysis plot close support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.08.2002 add Know Issues Documentation</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.12.2002 add http proxy support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.12.2002 fixed a problem with the close box for the bin
+dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.20.2002 add support for default fonts to preferences.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.23.2002 remove timeouts for all http requests with
+optional cancel
+support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.23.2002 fixed a number of items with web display.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.26.2002 reformat all documentation to remove
+references to
+Helvetica</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.26.2002 bring grid WIDGETBB in by one so that the
+border
+can be
+seen and printed.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.26.2002 fixed a problem with web gifs under windows.
+The
+output
+channel needed an -translation binary flag.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.26.2002 adjust font sizes for web display to more
+closely
+follow
+those of Netscape and IE.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.27.2002 add 'Save as Fits', 'Save as Image', and 'Page
+Setup' buttons.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.27.2002 add 'First' and 'NVSS' archive server menu
+items.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.28.2002 add auto coordinate feed to HV for archive
+servers.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>08.30.2002 ds9 version 2.2b2 released to public.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.2b1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>04.05.2002 fixed a problem with xpa contour load.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.05.2002 improved parsing of analysis menu file. In
+particular, keywords
+like 'help', 'param', and 'end' can be used more freely.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.10.2002 add tag suppport for regions.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.11.2002 add background marker stack. The default stack
+is
+in the
+foreground.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.11.2002 fixed checks for can Edit, can Move, can
+Rotate,
+and can
+Delete properties thru out marker code.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.11.2002 add HIGHLITE marker property.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.12.2002 add $null macro to analysis support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.17.2002 fitsy++ now builds an keyword index to search
+for
+keywords.
+Previously, it would search sequentially.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.18.2002 add a fix to ps level 2 driver to prevent a
+'\n%'
+in the
+image data. Seems the perl script 'assemble' does a global
+search/replace
+that results in corrupted image data. This fix includes a redesign of a
+previous fix that worked around an issue with old versions of dvips
+that
+will incorrectly process'\n%%'.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.18.2002 upgrade to WCS 3.1.0</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.24.2002 start to add support for multiple wcs's.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.25.2002 add support for multiple wcs's in infobox.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.26.2002 improve tag support for regions. All
+functionality
+of selected
+regions are now available for tagged regions.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>04.30.2002 add marker command var command to support
+regions
+files
+in tcl vars.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.08.2002 recalc polygon center when adding or deleteing
+vertex.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.13.2002 complete implementation of multiple wcs
+support.
+ds9 now
+supports a total of 31 coordinate systems. Furthermore, of the 27 WCS
+coordinate
+systems, both sky coordinates and linear coordinates are fully
+supported.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.13.2002 complete re-implemenation of map() functions.
+Now
+all map
+functions are in the fits case, and only map between REF and
+IMAGE/PHYSICAL/AMPLIFIER/DETECTOR/WCS/WCSA...
+coordinate systems. This cleans up alot of code and confusion.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.14.2002 add support for TCROT and CDn_1 WCS keywords
+in
+FITS bin
+tables.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.16.2002 dramatically speed up parsing wcs keywords by
+substituting
+the fitsy++ index based keyword search routine for Doug Mink's
+'ksearch'
+routine. With multiple wcs's in a large mosaic this can save up to a
+minute
+at load time.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.16.2002 fixed a minor problem with xpa dss. http has a
+error, that
+carries over and is caught by xpa.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.16.2002 analysis $text windows will not appear if
+there is
+no output,
+or just an &lt;cr&gt;.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.16.2002 fixed display header to correctly display 80
+chars, not
+79.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.16.2002 fixed a problem with iis and very long file
+names.
+names
+up to 256 chars are now allowed.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>005.20.2002 AMPLIFER and DETECTOR coordinate menu entries
+are
+now an
+option, to be enabled via the Preferences:Misc menu option. Changes
+will
+take affect at startup.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.23.2002 add support for 3D binning of fits bin tables.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.24.2002 made changes to grid.C to handle the special
+LONG/NPOL skyframe
+coordinate system used by Chandra.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.24.2002 add -xpa and xpa prefs to allow a user to
+enable
+or disable
+initialization of XPA at startup</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.28.2002 add -xpa [inet|local|unix|localhost] xpa point.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>05.29.2002 correct 3D binning to properly reflect filter
+params in
+the filename.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.03.2002 fixed a problem with Fits Bin Tables, odd
+length
+rows and
+referencing shorts.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.04.2002 add support for multiple wcs with skyframe
+panner
+compass,
+along with prefs.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.04.2002 add -xpa noxpans support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.04.2002 match frames wcs now uses the wcs system and
+wcs
+skyframe
+specified in align to wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.05.2002 upgrade to xpa 2.1.1</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.06.2002 add wcs master menu and buttons</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.06.2002 sync xpa wcs and command line wcs command.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.10.2002 xpa wcs and commanline -wcs now uses same code
+to
+process</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.10.2002 xpa nameserver format now skyformat</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.10.2002 added support for variable args for xpa
+contour
+and -contour.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.11.2002 add match frames physical, amplifier,
+detector.
+this does
+not handle rotation, nor orientation.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.11.2002 the master wcs menu now modifies the
+Region:File
+Coordinate
+System menu also</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.11.2002 fixed a problem with list projection and
+linear
+wcs. the
+thickness parameter was not written correctly.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.12.2002 fixed a problem with -tile and -region
+commandline
+options.
+The ds9 window must be realized before processing region files.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.13.2002 fixed a problem with -pagesetup commandline
+option.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.13.2002 fixed a problem with ds9parser.Y,
+prosparser.Y,
+and tngparser.Y
+when processing coordinates when no coordinate system has been
+specified.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.13.2002 fixed a problem with -pan to command line
+option.
+The ds9
+window needs to be realized (and the matrices defined) before
+processing.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.13.2002 binning on a third column now invokes the data
+cube dialog
+box.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.14.2002 add smaller buffer sizes to binning menus. We
+want
+to do
+this for those building large 3D binning movies.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.19.2002 implemented new grid support. Grids now handle
+rotated images
+much better. Numerics are better positioned.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.27.2002 updated to WCSSUBS 3.1.1. This corrects a
+number
+of TNX
+problems.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.27.2002 add File:XPA info menu item.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.27.2002 add XPA regions selected feature.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>06.28.2002 Analysis $geturl macro calls are now logged.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.01.2002 add support for limited web browser</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.01.2002 help reference manual now uses built-in
+brower,
+and is static.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.02.2002 fixed a problem with cross-platform displays
+and
+16 bit
+truecolor.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.08.2002 fixed a problem with regions and changes in
+the
+bin factor
+of fits bin tables.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.08.2002 add $xpa_method analysis macro.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.08.2002 add @@xpa_method@@ support in hv.html</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.22.2002 fix numerous problems with internal web
+browser.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.23.2002 add async support for internal web browser.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.24.2002 changed Makefiles so that parser.C,
+parser.C.h,
+and lex.C
+are now archived. Therefor, builds no longer need bison and flex,
+unless
+changes have been made to the parser.Y. This gets around problems with
+different versions of bison.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.25.2002 add support for the Compass region.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>07.25.2002 add vo proxy and internal hv support.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 2.3 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<div align="right">
+<div align="left"> </div>
+<h3 align="left"> <font size="-1"></font><img alt="" src="../sun.gif"
+ align="middle" height="98" width="100"> Version 2.3 Release Notes</h3>
+</div>
+<ol>
+  <ol>
+  </ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 2.3b1</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>11.04.2002 add multi-language support structure.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.02.2002 configure http user agent to 'ds9'. This fixes
+a problem with www.google.com</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.02.2002 add Help DS9 Home Page menu Item.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.03.2002 Web Display: implemented 'Content-Encoding'
+and modified 'Mime-Type' to use new proposed FITS Mime-Type RFC.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.03.2002 Web Display: when the mime-type is set
+to 'application/octet-stream', try to parse the url, looking for a
+valid fits or fits.gz image. If so, load as a fits. If not, save to
+disk.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.03.2002 Web Display: reduced the size of fonts
+by -2 to more closely match netscape and internet explorer.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.03.2002 Web Display: updated Archive menus to use new
+IRAS web interface.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.03.2002 Web Display: add font size argument to
+HV. Now, web sites can have different default font sizes, based on what
+looks the best.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.10.2002 Fixed a problem with calculating LTMV keywords
+from alt WCS keywords in the case of WCSNAME='PHYSICAL'</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.10.2002 Add support for TDMIN and TDMAX FITS bin table
+keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.10.2002 Add 'Delete All Frames' support.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.10.2002 only use fits keyword inheritence if INHERIT
+keyword is present in the header.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.11.2002 Fixed a problem with WCS headers and INHERIT,
+which resulted in duplicate keywords. This made wcssubs very confused.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.11.2002 Add 'Delete Selected Regions' to Regions menu.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.11.2002 Add confirmation dialog to 'Delete All
+Regions'.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.12.2002 Display Header List dialog is now 40 chars
+wide.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.12.2002 Web Display: add initial coordinates to ADS
+archive sites</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.16.2002 Add *.fit and *.fts to fits dialog box
+templates.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.16.2002 Add support for GUI Groups, based on region
+tags.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.17.2002 Add HSV colormap.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.18.2002 Fixed a problem with the PANDA Region at zooms
+other than 1.</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.19.2002 DS9 version 2.3b1 released to the public.</tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
+ content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+  <meta name="GENERATOR"
+ content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]">
+  <title>DS9 Version 3.0 Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" text="#000000"
+ vlink="#551a8b">
+<h3> <img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98"
+ width="100">
+SAOImage DS9 Version 3.0 Release Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 3.0</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li> <tt>12.24.2002 TCL/TK: update to 8.4.1</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.24.2002 BLT: update to 2.4z</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>12.24.2002 TKIMG: update to 1.3rc</tt></li>
+    <li> <tt>01.03.2003 XPA: fixed a problem with 'xpaget ds9 regions
+selected'</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.28.2003 SAVEAS: now saves all slices of a data cube, if
+the display mode is single.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.28.2003 GUI: Add 'wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW
+QuitDS9' for main window so that tcl/tk 8.4 does not segv when a user
+double clicks on a close window icon.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.29.2003 GCC: add support for gcc 3.0/3.2</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.29.2002 GCC: updated saotk/FlexLexer.h from flex 2.5.27,
+available at http://lex.sourceforge.net/<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.04.2003 WINDOWS: modify configuration files for tkimg1.3
+and tkhtml to support windows.<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.05.2003 WCS: upgrade to 3.3.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.06.2003 ARCHIVE: the default ADS max search size is now
+a radius of .1
+arcmin.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.06.2003 XPA: add '-xpa tcl' command line option. By
+default, disable xpa tcl access since it is a major security risk.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.03 FITS: fixed a problem with loading fits files via
+the url menu or command line.<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.03 HTTP: loading images via url http processes the
+image based on the http header mime type and encoding, not the file
+name. images loaded via url ftp are still processed based on file name.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.03 PLOT: fixed a problem with global vars and the
+plot widget.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.11.03 BINNING: fixed a bug with the bin table smoothing
+support. If the bin factor is large enough to bin the entire image in
+the bin buffer, ds9 would segv by trying to read out of bounds.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.03 XPA: fixed a bug with loading an image from xpa
+stdin without a filename.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.03 XPA: add 'fillbuf=false' to all xpa receive
+commands that do not use $buf. This will speed up processing because
+the data socket is not opened.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.03 XPA: fixed a problem with appending an wcs via
+xpa. The appended wcs is now positioned at the end, not the beginning.
+also, a problem occurred when the 'END' card was not the last card of
+the header. This has been fixed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.03 XPA: changes to xpa regions syntax.
+'moveback'/'movefront' are now 'move back'/'move front',
+'selectall'/'selectnone' are now 'select all'/'select none', and
+'deleteall' is 'delete all'. Backward compatibility has
+bee maintained</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.03 XPA: add 'select group &lt;groupname&gt;' and
+'delete select' to xpa regions access point.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.26.03 HV: add support for gif,png,ppm,xbm,xpm file
+formats</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.03 </tt><tt>HV: </tt><tt>fixed some problems with
+tkhtml uri resolver. This cleans up a lot of tcl code.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.04.03 HV: images are now scaled if the width/height args
+are provided in the html src.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.04.03 ARCHIVE: add chandra archive web chaser.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.03 COLORMAP: Fixed a problem with InitColorbar and a
+colormap of A or B.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.03 ANALYSIS: all comments after # are ignored.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.03 ANALYSIS: non macros can be escaped by using $$.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.31.03 COMMAND: Add -frame command line option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.08.03 GUI: Remove Magnifier Mode option, along with
+Magnifier Replicate code.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.23.03 HST WFPC: Mosaic images must be loaded directly.
+this fixes a problem in that it was not possible to autodect a WFPC2
+image in an incoming data stream, such as stdin.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.12.03 API: *** CHANGE *** Frame load syntax has changed
+to make it consistent across all modes and file formats. In particular,
+the general syntax is: &lt;frame&gt; load fits|array &lt;filename&gt;
+mmap|alloc|alloc gz|channel|shared|socket|var &lt;options&gt;</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.12.03 API: *** CHANGE *** shared memory loads no longer
+require the size of the memory segment.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.20.03 WCS: update to 3.3.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.20.03 AST: update to 2.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.22.03 GRID: fix a problem with grid.C interface to AST.
+The text bounding box code was returning the coordinates in a clockwise
+manner. It needs to be returned in an anti-clockwise manner.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.22.03 GRID: Add support for user specified Grid Axes
+Numerics gap.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.27.03 GRID: Fixed a problem with the bounding box of a
+publication grid. it was .5 pixels off.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.28.03 GUI: Fixed a problem with 'get cursor'. Sometimes,
+as with loading dss images, the
+matrices were not updated in time, and 'get cursor' returned bogus
+values. Now all calls to 'get cursor' force an update.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.02.03 GUI: fixed several problems with examine mode</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.02.03 ARCHIVE: add NOAO 4MASS and SIRTF and NOAO NSA to
+archive menu</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.09.03 RGB: support is FINISHED! now, lets see how its
+works!</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.03 RGB: Add Lock Channels to lock most Scale and Bin
+parameters between channels.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.16.03 GRID: Add numerics spacing to save/load grid
+configuration</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.16.03 FITS: Add 3D array data cube</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.03 FITS: Fixed a problem with an incorrect data cube
+dialog and wfpc2 mosaics and rgb data cubes. Basically, these two cases
+are not really data cubes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.03 RGB: Replace RGB menu with RGB dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.03 XPA: Fixed a problem with xpaget ds9 regions
+[include|exclude|source|background].</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.18.03 REGION: fix a problem with non-linear physical
+coordinates and save/load regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.18.03 WCS: fix a problem with determining the rotation
+of a wcs coordinate system. previously, CRPIX was used as the start
+point. This does not work in cases where the tangent point is very far
+off the image. Instead, (1,1) is used.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.18.03 WCS: Remove preference Panner WCS origin. This is
+stupid and breaks with the previous change. Just remove it instead of
+trying to fix it.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.26.03 FITS: Add support 3D array data cubes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.30.03 RGB: Add support for RGB array data cube.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.03 DSS: Fixed namesrv.tcl and dss.tcl to promote more
+robust error handling. In particular, http error codes are now checked,
+and the results are verified before proceeding</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.03 XPA: fixed a problem with $ds9 -xpa tcl. The next
+argument was being ignored.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.02.03 DSS: fixed another problem with namesrv.tcl.
+SAONED and SAOSIMBAD were returning incorrect values for southern
+hemisphere.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.02.03 HTTP: remove http log from preferences and added
+http log and ftp log to debug menu</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.03.03 GUI: fixed a problem with open file dialog box. if
+the user clicked 'cancel', an error message would result. this has been
+corrected.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.09.03 FITS: add Large File Support for Linux. Linux is
+still restricted to ~2.5Gb.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.10.03 FITS: add FLUSH parameter for fitsy++ array.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.10.03 FITS: Major change in behavior of fitsy++ streams
+and FLUSH. Only socket and socketgz will flush, all others will not
+flush the buffer after
+an error, or after successfull loading a fits image.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.11.03 XPA: add DATACUBE support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.14.03 WCS: Fixed a problem with WCS XLON-TAN (NPOLE) and
+AST. NPOLE is a special wcs equ coord system, and has to be handed by
+wcs2ast().</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.03 XPA: add xpa iis access port for control of some
+iis functionality.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><b><tt>07.17.03 RELEASE version 3.0b4</tt></b></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>07.25.03 FITS: add MMAPINCR memory access mode. This only
+mmaps the data needed, not the entire file. This allows a user to view
+many small segements of a very large file.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.28.03 TCL/TK: upgrade to 8.4.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.30.03 XPA: add regions fg/bg support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.05.03 PLOT: reimplement analaysis plot widget to support
+unlimited number of data sets.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.07.03 ARCHIVE: add Rosat All-Sky survey</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.08.03 XPA: add PLOT, which allows full control over all
+plot widgets via xpa.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.13.03 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with loading lut
+colormaps under linux. ifstream behaves differently between solaris and
+linux.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.14.03 XPA: changed xpaget array. Now returns the array
+data in the current frame.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>08.15.03 RELEASE version 3.0b5</b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.03 FITS: add Large file support for darwin and
+linuxppc</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.03 LINUXPPC: fixed a problem with linking linuxppc.
+The copy of libX11.a that comes with Yellow Dog 3.0 is bad.
+So we can't links static.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.03 XPA: add options to xpa update so that 'update
+idletasks' is not run at the end of file loads. This allows the
+user to do several incremental loads without updating the screen.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.03 API: only update idletasks for horz/vert graph if
+graphs are on</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.03 API: add debug idletasks support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.29.03 GCC: gcc 3.3 is now supported. For all code, if
+GNUC &gt;=3, new &lt;sstream&gt; are used. For all code, GNUC &lt;3,
+&lt;strstream&gt; is used.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.29.03 PLOT: fixed a problem with saving plot data in
+x,y,ye format</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.29.03 FITS: add LFS for solaris.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.29.03 COMMAND: add -analysismenu command line option at
+the request of CXC.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.29.03 COMMAND: fixed a problem with -pan and -pan to and
+other comman line options that follow.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.02.03 FITS: add LFS for alpha.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.04.03 SOLARIS: add new solaris64 port. Requires gcc 3.3
+or greater.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.04.03 XPA: upgrade to 2.1.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.04.03 FILTER: upgrade to 1.2.3b1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.04.03 FITSY:
+upgrade to 1.2.3b1<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.06.03 SOLARIS: fixed a problem with 64bit machines and
+truecolor displays.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.06.03 FITS: add support for multiple extension fits data
+cubes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.03 REGION: fixed a problem with projection regions
+and an undefined variable.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.03 BINNING: fixed a problem with fits bin tables
+without TLMIN/TLMAX or TDMIN/TDMAX. the center was incorrectly being
+calculated.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.03 ARCHIVE: fixed a problem with the NOAO archive web
+display with no images loaded. The variables 'ra' and 'dec' were not
+defined.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.03 PLOT: ixed a problem with the plot widget and the
+preferences unique plot parameter.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.09.03 PLOT: project plot xaxis are now in coordinate
+system specified via the marker dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.11.03 PLOT: fixed a problem with the line, ruler, and
+projection regions and properly displaying wcs linear coordinates</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.11.03 WCS: cleaned up a lot of code for
+setting/adjusting coordinate menus</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.11.03 RGB: loading a new channel in a rgb image will no
+longer delete regions, grids, or aux contours.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.15.03 FITS: removed BITPIX32 define. using &lt;int&gt;
+instead since it is defined as a consistent 4 bytes across all
+platforms.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.18.03 RGB: split lock rgb into lock scale and lock bin.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.03 BINNING: frames now have 'memory' of certain bin
+paramenters. It is now possiable to set bin parameters before loading a
+bin table.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.03 RGB: InfoBox now displays all values for RGB
+images, not just the current channel value.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.03 API: change names of various tcl marker variables</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.03 REGION: add prefs for regions color, width,
+properties, font</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.03 GUI: add HJKL key bindings as substitute for arrow
+keys</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>09.24.03 RELEASE version 3.0b6</b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>09.29.03
+WCS: changes to getWCSRotation, getWCSOrientation to better reflect the
+actual rotation</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.03
+XPA: add xpa/command line options for configuration of info panel</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.03
+API: change variable 'mosaic(fast)' to 'ds9(mosaic,fast)'</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.03
+FITS: add new support for blank/Inf/NaN background color</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.03
+FITS: add support for image background color.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.03
+RGB: add support for RGB lock colorbar</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.23.03 HV: add support for VO DIS</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.23.03 HV: fixed a problem with forms and encrypting
+field names, allow with the returned value</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.23.03 GUI: Change mode 'Default' to 'None'. We can't use
+the term 'default' because with problems with tcl switchs and
+the default keyword</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.03 WCS: add support for WCS AIPS projections via the
+preferences menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.03 API: add acknowledgment</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.03.03 COMMAND: fixed a problem with command line options
+-mosaicimage, -mosaicimagewfpc2, -medatacube</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.03.03 FITS: fixed a problem with multiple extension data
+cube with all memory models except MMAPINCR.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.03.03 COMMAND: fixed a problem with command line options
+-mosaicimagewcs, -mosaicimageiraf, -mosaicimagewfpc2, -medatacube and
+RGB frames</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.05.03 WCS: remove internal wcsZoom matrix. All wcsZoom
+actions are now applied to the current &nbsp;zoom matrix. This fixes a
+number of problems with 'Match Frames to WCS'</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.05.03 WCS: fixed a problem with rotated images and
+examine mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.07.03 </tt><tt>REGION: f</tt><tt>fixed a problem with
+regular panda regions. The code incorrectly determined a regulier panda
+was
+irregulier and output it as such.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.07.03 REGION: fixed a problem with region angles in
+general, where there there was a rotation in the wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.07.03 HV: add Server Apache Refresh support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.07.03 XPA: add xpaget ds9 fits size &lt;coordsys&gt;
+&lt;skyformat&gt;</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.11.03 XPA: add regions group support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.01.03 WCS:
+update to 3.5.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.01.03 XPA:
+add get contour &lt;coordinate system&gt; &lt;skyframe&gt; support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.03 WCS: update to 3.5.1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.03 XPA: upgrade to 2.1.5</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.03 FILTER: upgrade to 1.2.3</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.03 FITSY:
+upgrade to 1.2.3</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.03 AST: upgrade to 3.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.03 IIS: upgrade to 1.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.03 REGION:
+casted all XPoint to short. There is a problem with rendering line
+segments at very high zoom. X11 overflows and the lines become random.
+We should check that screen coordinates never exceed
+SHRT_MAX</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.03 ANALYSIS: geturl() macro is formated before
+execution.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.11.03 FITs: add mosaic image next wcs support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.03 RGB: fixed a problem with wcs matching when one of
+the wcs is flipped in XX</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.03 WCS: </tt><tt>fixed a problem with wcs matching
+when one of the wcs is flipped in XX</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.03 REGION: load fits regions now utilitize the
+current region color, width, and font</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.24.03 WCS: back
+out change #50. We have to use the projection tan point
+to correctly build mosaics and RGB images.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.09.04 AST: upgrade to 3.1.1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.09.04 GRID: pass PV,PROJP,PS keywords to AST<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.12.04 TCLLIB: add
+tcllib 1.4. This package contains a number of useful tcl
+packages<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.12.04 FTP: upgrade to 2.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.13.04 TCL: upgrade to 8.4.5</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.13.04 TK: upgrade
+to 8.4.5</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.13.04 HTTP: add support for proxy authentication.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.14.04 COMMAND: fixed a problem with printing from the
+command line. The canvas widget was not fully realized before printing,
+resulting in
+no image.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.15.04 MKTCLAPP: made two changes to the default init
+script of mktclapp. The first sees that the the virtual file system is
+init'd before the first call to Tcl. This allows Tcl to 'see' encoding
+files. The second, for windows only, makes sure that the Tcl windows
+file system is init'd before the first call to Tcl.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.15.04 MKTCLAPP: add
+default encoding files to ds9.mta, now that we can use
+them.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.22.04 GUI: Add preference for default temporary file
+directory.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.23.04 XPA: add xpa imexam.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.25.04 XPA: add xpa fits header.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.25.04 XPA: add xpa fits depth.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.25.04 XPA: modified xpa fits size.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.25.04 GUI: add language
+support for info and error messages.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.01.04 WCS: more on #50 and #141. If wcs projection is
+Zenithal, use CRPIX as reference point to determine wcs rotation and
+oriention. Otherwise, use image center point.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.04.04 CONTOUR: modified smooth algorithm. We now SMOOTH
+the entire image with a gaussian kernal. Previously, we would block by
+2 before smoothing with a boxcar kernal. Finally, the default method is
+BLOCK.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.04.04 CONTOUR:&nbsp;</tt><tt>A .5 error has been removed
+from the BLOCK algorithm.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.04.04 CONTOUR: </tt><tt>the number of contour levels
+has been inconsistant in the pass.
+this has been fixed. </tt><tt>If the number of levels is 1,
+the high cut value is used.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.04.04 CONTOUR: fixed log scale bug. it was incorrectly
+calculating the levels.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.05.04 SAVEAS: jpeg,tiff,png,ppm support is now internal
+and available to all ports. gs is no longer needed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.10.04 REGION: add show/hide
+support for fg and bg regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.10.04 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with the -cmap value x y
+command. On truecolor visuals, we need to be realized before we start
+to manipulate the colormap.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.10.04 FITS: cleaned up smooth convolve code. same speed,
+easier to understand.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.11.04 GUI: Add Colorbar Parameter dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.11.04 COLORBAR: add support for load/save contrast/bias.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.12.04 EXPORT: split EXPORT from
+SAVEAS. Currently only FITS is supported.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.17.04 CONTOUR: when update data cube slice,
+automatically regenerate contours.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.18.04 REGION: the marker menu is now enabled if no frame
+or an empty frame is available.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.20.04 SCALE: add Auto MinMax. by default, use SCAN for
+single and SAMPLE for Mosaic and DataCube files</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.20.04 SCALE: fixed a problem with scobe being reset to
+LOCAL.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.23.04 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with
+incorrect contours for mosaics and rgb images at startup.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.23.04 XPA: add cd (current directory) command</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.24.04 AST: upgrade 3.2.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.24.04 DOC: added support for generating postscript and
+pdf versions of the reference manual.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.04 CONTOUR: convert contours to polygons will now
+also convert any aux contours.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.04 PANDA: fixed probems with GUI add angle.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.04 CIRCLE: new GUI edit algorithm.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.04 ANNULUS: new GUI edit and add annulus algorithms.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.04 ELLIPSE: new GU edit algorithm.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.04 ELLIPSE ANNULUS: new GUI edit and add annulus
+algorithm. This fixed a problem with 0 radius annuli. Also fixed a
+problem with GUI rotate after close dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>3.1.04 BOXANNULUS: new GUI edit and add size algorithms.
+This fixed a problem with 0 size annuli.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.01.04 PANDA: new GUI edit and add annulus algorithms.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.01.04 PANDA: fixed a problem with a full PANDA from 0 to
+360 degrees. Previously, it was displayed as 0 to
+0 degrees.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.04 PANDA: fixed a problem with postscript and radial
+lines. The zoom was incorrectly being calculated..</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.04 PANDA: fixed a problem with render in magnifier.
+The wrong zoom factor was being used.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.09.04 GUI: add Tab/Shift-Tab bindings to
+panner.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.04 GRID: fixed a problem with single publication
+bounding box. It now takes into account DATASEC.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.04 AST: upgrade to 3.2.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.04 GRAPH: graphs are now active for single,tile,and
+blink modes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.16.04 WCS LINEAR: fixed many problems with alignment of
+WCS LINEAR MOSAICS</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.16.04 RGB: fixed many problems with alignment of RGB WCS
+images</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.04 FITS: fixed a problem with random numbers beening
+displayed for BLANK/NaN</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>03.18.04 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0b7</b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>03.22.04 PIXELTABLE: fixed a problem with 'unset
+pixelValues'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.22.04 SAVEAS: fixed a problem with 'processSaveAs'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.22.04 RGB: fixed a problem with turning off all loaded
+channels within a frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.31.04 IIS: fixed a problem with a old variable in
+DisplayCoordDialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.31.04 BINNING: fixed a problem with dimensions of
+DBL_MIN,DBL_MAX.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.31.04 IIS: turn off blinking cursor while changing
+colormap so we do not see a color flash due to the updating of the
+frame when the cursor form is changed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.01.04 WEB DISPLAY: add options on how to load downloaded
+fits.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.01.04 WEB DISPLAY: fixed a problem when the image
+width/height contains garbage.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.02.04 TCL/TK: update to 8.4.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.05.04 PAN: fixed yet another problem with -pan.
+Hopefully this time, I've got it right.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.06.04 GRID: fixed a problem with psLine and gcc
+2.96.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.06.04 MAKEFILE: fixed a typo with ./configure.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>04.06.04 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0b8</b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>04.12.04 SAVEAS: add SaveAs MPEG-1 support using tkmpeg and
+exmpeg.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.14.04 BINNING: 60% improvement in speed for little
+endian arch.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.23.04 ZLIB: upgrade to version 1.2.1<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.26.04 ALPHA: minor changes to make.alpha and
+ds9/Makefile for alpha support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.26.04 FITS: fixed problems with trying to open regions
+extensions in cases where the mode was not mmap.<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.27.04 EXTERNAL FITS: fixed major problems with pattern
+matching.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.27.04 FITSY++: skip over unknow binary column types. We
+used to force an exit.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.04 FITSY++: fixed a problem with SocketGZ where if
+too little data had arrived, ds9 would incorrectly see this as an error.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.04 GUI: fixed a race condition in which ds9 'thinks'
+the windows have been realized, and XPA has been init'd and the user
+starts to delete windows that don't exists. Now XPA is not realized
+until the
+canvas window has been realized.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.04 LINUX: return to a full static link. Seems like
+the best option to support current and future versions of linux.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.04 PRINT: add print prefs.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>05.03.04 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0b9</b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>05.04.04 BINNING: fixed a problem with column size double
+and
+buffer overflow on little endian machines.<br>
+      </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.04.04 PANDA: fixed a problem with postscript and gcc
+2.95
+compilers. This problem had already been fixed for gcc 3.x compilers.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.06.04 BINNING: add support for variable binning in x and
+y.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.07.04 IIS: fixed a problem with buffer overflow and
+determining imtool.rc file location.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.07.04 FRAMEBASE: fixed some minor memory leaks.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.10.04 BINNING: for FITS REGIONS files, when loading
+against a binned image, compare X and Y bin columns to regions X and Y
+bin columns for a match. Do not load unless they match.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.10.04 GUI: add 'option' command to control GUI
+appearance. Removed many -bd 2 options to clean up the interface.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.12.04 BINNING: fixed a major problem with 3D binning.
+Once it was turned on and then turned off, important internal
+parameters where not being update, resulting in segvs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.15.04 RGB: fixed memory leak in loading RGB images.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.17.04 LINUX: ok, back to two versions: one dynamic, one
+static. The static version is buggy under Fedora, but is required for
+old versions of RH. So the default version will be dynamic linked, with
+an static version available for older machines.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.21.04 XPA: fixed a problem with WCS REPLACE FILE and WCS
+APPEND FILE.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.25.04 PANDA: fixed CIAO output so that the start angle
+is always less than the end angle.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.26.04 FITSY++: clean up code for strm.C, map.C, mapincr.C</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.31.04 FITSY++: introduce new 'internal paging' mapince.C
+for binning files larger than 1Gb. Only 1Gb segments are mmap at one
+time, to allow binning &gt;2Gb/&gt;4Gb bin tables under a 32bit OS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.31.04 FITSDATA: optimized swap(), getValueFloat(),
+getValueDouble(), and scan() in hopes of speeding up display times,
+especially for linux.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.13.04 WCS: upgrade to version 3.5.3</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.16.04 WEB DISPLAY: increased default font by one size.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.16.04 GUI: fixed a problem with display header. Under
+Fedora Core 2, the default font size was too small.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.04 XPA: add fits header keyword support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.04 PLOT: add option plot names to xpa, plot name in
+window title, plot data command</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.04 PLOT: fixed a problem with closing xpa plots via
+xpa.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.18.04 PLOT: remove prefs 'Unique Plot'. This never
+worked correctly and is now obsolete.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.04 PANDA: radii now extend from inner annuli to outer
+annuli and not from the center.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.04 RGB: fixed a problem with 'fit to zoom' for rgb
+frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.22.04 AST: update to version 3.3-1.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.23.04 GRIDS: fixed justification (yet again!)</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.24.04 REGIONS: the default GUI size is now constant,
+reguardless of current zoom.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.24.04 REGIONS: add support for cut/copy/paste regions
+across frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.25.04 REGIONS: add unselect, begin rotate, end rotate,
+begin move, end move, begin edit, end edit callback support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.25.04 GUI: add support for multiple FITS headers for
+multiple extension FITS files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.28.04 REGIONS: add support for listing WCS keywords and
+values as comments in region files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.28.04 REGIONS: fixed a problem with the TEXT region
+handles with zooms not equal to 1.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.28.04 XPA: fixed a problem with xpaset regions color and
+xpaset regions width.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.29.04 FITS: add support for reload option. if reload
+option is set, markers and aux contours are preserved across loads.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.04 FITSY++: fixed a problem with binning if the image
+header contained more than 36 cards.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.04 FITSY++: added TV and TS keyword support for FITS
+bin tables.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.04 FITSY++: add TP keyword support for FITS bin
+tables.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.02.04 GRID: fixed a problem with a wcs with PC keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.05.04 WCS: removed WCS projection option. Its no longer
+needed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.05.04 GRID: fixed several problems with converting from
+wcs to AST. AST is very very picky as to which keywords to use and in
+what order. These include CDELT's, CD's, PC's, CROTA's.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.08.04 SAVEAS: reorganize save as menus.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.08.04 SAVEAS: add support for saving multiple frames as
+MPEG movie.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.13.04 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with mosaic image wcs with
+orientations of xx.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.14.04 WCS: upgrade to version 3.5.5.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.14.04 FITSY++: add support for real number format 'D'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.14.04 FITSY: add changes to support real number format
+'D'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.04 ANALYSIS: stderr can now be redirected to stdout
+for $text with the |&amp; macro.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.04 ANALYSIS: shell environment vars will be expanded
+within the command with the env() macro.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.04 ANALYSIS: add support for the WEB menu item.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>07.26.04 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0<br>
+      </b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>07.28.04 IIS: fixed a problem with iraf iis support that
+would sometimes result in a blank screen.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>07.28.04 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0.1<br>
+      </b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li> <tt>08.02.2004 VECTOR: fixed a problem with matrix inversion
+with numbers smaller than DBL_EPSILON.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.02.2004 FRAME: check for negative zoom.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.06.2004 FITSIMAGE: fixed a problem with determining the
+length of a vector in the case of a non-wcs rotated coordinate system.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.09.2004 GRID: fixed a problem with a rotation in
+physical and wcs linear grids.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.10.2004 MAKEFILE: add support for emacs tags in
+saods9/saotk</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.12.2004 PROJECTION: fixed a problem with paste
+projection and setup callback procs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.12.2004 REGIONS: fixed a problem where regions
+properties where lost if cut/paste across frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.13.2004 DIALOGS: fixed an issues with some windows
+managers who needed a hint to bring all dialogs to the front.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.13.2004 POLYGON: change default create method to be
+simular to box.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.13.2004 POLYGON: add prefs default polygon size.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.13.2004 POLYGON: fixed a problem with the control
+handles at high zoom.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.16.2004 REGIONS: fixed a problem with updating
+coordinates/angles/distances when rebinning a FITS bin table.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.16.2004 REGIONS: add default system, sky, skyformat,
+dist system, and dist format for regions dialog to preferences.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.16.2004 FITSY++: fixed a problem with &lt;unsigned
+char&gt; columns. They where incorrectly cased as a &lt;char&gt;.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.2004 SCALE: nolonger reset scale mode from USERCLIP
+on load FITS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.2004 AST: upgrade to version 3.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.2004 GRID: minor tweaks with the default axes
+numerics gaps.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.2004 REGIONS: for RGB frames, always use the keyFits
+channel in mapping regions to/from reference coordinate system.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.2004 LINUX64: add support for Linux 64.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.24.2004 XPA: add get data support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.25.2004 AST: fixed a bug with using free'd memory in
+plot.c</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.25.2004 GUI: fixed two problems with the getDataValues
+routine. With non-symetric binning or equatorial sky coordinates, an
+incorrect number of values where returned.</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>08.27.2004 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0.2<br>
+      </b></tt></p>
+    </li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2004 FTTYS++: add a check for mmapincr and mmap to
+ensure that there is at least 2880 bytes before trying to parse a
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+    <li><tt>09.02.2004 FITSY++: add new memory mode, SMMAP which allows
+for split fits mmap files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.02.2004 XPA: add new support for split mmap and shared
+FITS files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.03.2004 FITSY++: add new memory mode, SSHARE which
+allows for split fits shared memory files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.06.2004 COMMAND: add support for split mmap and shared
+FITS files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.07.2004 XPA: update to 2.1.6</tt></li>
+    <li>
+      <p><tt><b>09.10.2004 </b><b>RELEASE version 3.0.3<br>
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+    </li>
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+SAOImage DS9 Version 4.0 Release Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <h4> <b>Version 4</b></h4>
+  <ol>
+    <li><tt>09.13.2004 AST: update to version 3.4-4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.13.2004 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.7</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.14.2004 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.5.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.14.2004 TCLLIB: update to version 1.6.1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.15.2004 TKTABLE: installed 2.9</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.20.2004 SAOTK: fixed a problem with calculating a
+regions rotational angle with a galactic or ecliptic wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.2004 SAVEFITS: fixed a problem with the savefits xpa
+and command line options.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.2004 REGIONS: fixed a problem with updating region
+dialog boxes after a change in event file bin factor.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.23.2004 DSS: if user selects dss2red or dss2blue survey,
+force server to eso.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.23.2004 2MASS: add image server.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.2004 DSS: fixed a problem with 'Update from current
+Frame'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.12.2004 MAKEFILE: add export-dynamic for linux so that
+external shared libs can be loaded.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.21.2004 GUI: fixed a problem if while blinking the user
+changes the colorbar via mouse.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.17.2004 IMAGESERVER: fixed incompatibilities between DSS
+and 2MASS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.19.2004 AST: update to version 3.5</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.29.2004 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.2.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.30.2004 SAOTK: use NaN.h from Funtools. This corrects
+problems with new architectures.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.03.2004 MAKEFILE: now support gcc 3.4.x</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.2004 XPA: fixed a problem with preserve regions
+command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.2004 HTML: fixed several problems with color matching
+within htmlwidget.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.16.2004 GUI: fixed a problem with saving text from
+SimpleTextDialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.16.2004 WCS: main wcs menu item now sets default marker
+coordinate system and skyframe.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.16.2004 COMPASS: create compass now uses current marker
+dialog system and skyframe.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.20.2004 POLYGON: fixed a problem with the exclude strip
+and rotation.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.20.2004 COMPOSITE: add support for composite region.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.22.2004 TEXT REGION: fixed a problem in which the text
+angle did not reflect the native coordinate system.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.29.2004 IMAGESERVER: xpa and command line options are
+now synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: fixed a problem with sexigesmal from
+SIMBAD near the equator.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: xpa and command line options are now
+synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.31.2005 VECTOR: add support for new VECTOR region.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.08.2005 REGIONS: fix varies errors with definition of
+angles. Position angles are now defined as from first positive
+coordinate axis to second positive coordinate axis except in the case
+of equatorial wcs, in this case it is defined as from second positive
+coordinate axis to first positive coordinate axis.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.16.2005 SCALE: added User menu options to clarify
+current scaling mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.17.2005 LINUX64: fixed a problem with generating
+postscript.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.28.2005 MOSAIC: add support for mosaic data cubes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.01.2005 STD Dialog: fixed several problems with ds9 not
+remembering the current working directory.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with a memory leak when
+rendering regions on the windows platform. We no longer try to clip
+against a clip region.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with command
+line options that require the ds9 window to be visible. We have to
+process
+all events with 'update' before the windows version of ds9 is visible.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.03.2005 REGIONS: add support to all regions parsers for
+ms windows line terminators</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.03.2005 ANALYSIS: removed extra ';' at the end of all
+regions substitutions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.16.2005 FITS: increased fits file name size to 1024
+chars.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.17.2005 CATALOGS: are finally implemented!</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2005 WINDOWS: implemented non-windows native standard
+dialogs. This allows uses to specify a file extension.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2005 FITY++: fixed a problem with filtering large bin
+tables while in mmapincr mode. We now insure that enough data is mmap'd
+for filter to build its good array.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2005 PRESERVE: fixed syntax errors with preserve
+regions and pan.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.30.2005 REGIONS: fixed regions parsers to accept a
+regions file without terminator as the last character.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.30.2005 ZOOM: all zooms are now specified in terms of x
+and y internally</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.01.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with grid options</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2005 REGIONS: reimplemented
+basemarker,baseellipse,basebox classes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2005 ZOOM: implemented support for different x and y
+zoom.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.2005 XPA: update to version 2.1.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b3</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.2005 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.9</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.25.2005 REGIONS: update all regions code</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.25.2005 REGIONS: add EPANDA</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.07.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.13.2005 SCALE: new LOG algorithm
+log10(i/s*1000+1)/log10(1001)
+where 0&lt;i&lt;s</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.13.2005 MAKEFILE: add support for FreeBSD</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.19.2005 FTP: all ftp opens now are in passive mode</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.28.2005 BIN: fixed a problem with -bin factor</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.28.2005 PAGESETUP: pagesetup command line options are no
+longer case sensitive</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.12.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0.b7</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.13.2005 REGIONS: new DS9 regions 4.0 format</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.13.2005 REGIONS: add copy,cut,paste,undo xpa and command
+line options.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.01.2005 GCC: add support for gcc 4.0. Remove backward
+support for gcc 2.96 or earlier.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.03.2005 REGIONS: panda,epanda,bpanda, only render
+start/stop angles in red/blue when selected.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.04.2005 SMOOTH: add smoothing algorithms
+boxcar,tophat,gaussian</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2005 COLORBAR: add support for printing the
+colorbar</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b9</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2005 ZLIB: update to version 1.2.3</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.17.2005 GUI: add View menu and prefs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.24.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with ciao pie regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.24.2005 REGIONS: add invert selection.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.25.2005 GUI: add display image window size.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>08.30.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b6</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.12.2005 IIS: fixed a problem with iis and cursors.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>09.12.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b7</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.15.2005 ARRAY: fixed a problem with loading array cubes
+from a file and determining the correct endian.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2005 BIN: if unable to find suitable cols to bin,
+chose the first and second column. This way, if you have table, it will
+always load, even if you don't know the column names.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.25.2005 BIN: binning dialog box. if number of columns is
+too large to display, wrap the menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.27.2005 CONTOUR: complete support for command line/xpa
+control of contour features.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.27.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with convert and
+contours of zero length.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.01.2005 FITS: fixed a problem loading very small arrays
+mmapincr</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.01.2005 VECTOR: small change to correct issue with gcc
+4.0.1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.01.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with wcs append/replace.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.02.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with alternative linear
+wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.02.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with alternative wcs names.
+All wcs names are now lower case.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.03.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with contour convert
+after a catalog command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.03.2005 HELP: altered tk to pass -help to us. For -help,
+we now display a brief message and exit and for --help, we display the
+reference manual command line options.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.09.2005 CATALOG: fixed a problem with starbase to trim
+column names of white spaces.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.09.2005 CATALOG: add user specified RA/DEC column option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.10.2005 CATALOG: speed up catreg for large dbs</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.14.2005 GUI: the meus Cut,Copy,Paste,Clear now works for
+all dialog boxes on all platforms.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.16.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rendering arrows
+for line,vector,ruler, and compass with width&gt;1.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.16.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to remember
+file types.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.17.2005 GUI: remove 'Use Cursors' Misc Option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.17.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to remember
+filters.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.18.2005 COMPOSITE: fixed a problem with loading
+composite regions with properties.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.2005 RGB: Fixed a problem with wcs matching rgb
+frames .</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.08.2005 REGIONS: Fixed a problem general comment such as
+## and #.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.08.2005 HELP: reset previous behavior for -help. fv uses
+ds9 -help to probe for ds9. Until fv is changed, we need to support the
+prior behavior.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.2005 X11: Insure that all X11 rendering is calculated
+in double precision until the very last, at which, the results are
+rounded to the nearest integer. This includes markers, contours, grids.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.17.2005 PS: set default resolution to 150, from 72.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.19.2005 GUI: add .ftz and .FTZ to default fits name
+filter.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.19.2005 FREEBSD: added support for freebsd.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.03.2006 FITSY++: fixed an overflow problem with mmap
+very large array files.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated DETECTOR and AMPLIFIER
+coordinate system menu items in menus and removed the preferences.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated ZMAX menu items in menus.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.05.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with rotated or
+flipped images and determining image size in ra and dec</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.05.2006 PROJECTION: fixed a problem move and moveto.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.12.2006 COLORBAR: added numerics to colorbar.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.18.2006 GUI: separte controls for min/max and low/high.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2006 HISTOGRAM EQU: is now based on low/high, not
+min/max.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.27.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with updating the current
+colormap.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.30.2006 PANNER: under truecolor visuals, the panner is
+now updated with the colorbar.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.01.2006 TEMPLATE: tweak xmm templates for correct
+boresite.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.03.2006 GUI: fixed Shift-Tab under linux.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.03.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with loading multiple
+files, with -single command line option, followed by Match Frame. The
+frames where not realized so the coordinate systems where not valid.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.03.2006 MARKERS: added the ability to toggle marker text.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>02.08.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b8</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.2006 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.12</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.08.2006 CROSSHAIR: fix a typo that caused the crosshair
+command-line option to fail.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.2006 CATALOG: fixed a problem with finding which
+columns contain RA and DEC.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.2006 XPA: fixed a problem with xpaget ds9 width.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.20.2006 DSS: add new survey options for STSCI.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2006 i18n: finished implemenation of
+internationalization and localization code.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2006 SCALE: fixed a problem with RGB frames and
+log/pow scales. Incorrect low/high values were being used to calculate
+the scale.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2006 PREFS: the default prefs file is now ds9.prf.
+The following directories are now searched in order: ./ ~
+/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2006 INITALIZATION: the default initalization file is
+now ds9.ini. The following directories are now searched in order: ./ ~
+/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.31.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with several dialog boxes
+with the Paste menu option. If the clipboard was empty, an error was
+generated.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.3.2006 FITS HEADER: fixed a problem displaying datacube
+headers.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.3.2006 PROJECTION REGION: Projection region plots can
+now be accessed via XPA PLOT</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.5.2006 MACOSX: fix a problem with the macosx startup
+scripts to allow path names with a space.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.7.2006 WCS: fix a problem WCS menu and images without a
+wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.10.2006 GRID: fixed a problem with GLACTIC wcs, AST,
+WCSSUBS, and defined LATPOLE/LONPOLE keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.15.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b9</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.18.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with filter editor
+menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.18.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with searching for
+other catalogs</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.24.2006 TEMP: DS9 will now look for environment vars
+TEMP and TMP first for location of temp directory.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2006 PREFS: Fixed a problem with writing invalid
+preferences.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2006 PS: Fixed a problem with printing Grayscale and
+pure white values. They were being rounded off to 254, not 255.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2006 PREFS: prefs are now written to a users home
+directory if available (including windows) and hidden.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.02.2006 GCC: now compiles properly under gcc 4.1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.08.2006 SCALE: more checks for illegal low/high values
+for log/pow scales</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.10.2006 BIN: fix an issue with calculated width/height.
+No matter the bin factor, or the dimensions of the data, always have at
+least an 1x1 image.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.11.2006 DARWIN: compile under 10.4.x with no
+OSSPINLOCKLOCK, which is not available under 10.3.x</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.16.2006 CROSSHAIR: fixed a problem with xpa/cmd option
+crosshair.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.16.2006 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with loading analysis
+files with bindings at startup with one frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.22.2006 WCSSUBS: Update to version 3.6.4</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.25.2006 ANALYSIS: add $xcen and $ycen macros.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.25.2006 ANALYSIS: add $vo_method macro.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.05.2006 FITSY++: fixed a problem with incorrectly
+detecting the beginning sequence of gz stream.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.12.2006 HV/XPA: Implemented 'xpaset' mime support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.14.2006 FITS: Fixed a problem with displaying the header
+of a file in which there was an extention name in the primary header.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.2006 GUI: Fixed a problem -single and -blink command
+line optons.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.2006 REGIONS: Check for valid image loaded before
+processing load regions commands.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.2006 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with mosaicimage wfpc2
+and display header.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.23.2006 HV: Implemented file caching.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.23.2006 HV: Implemented image caching.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.26.2006 HV: Implemented multiple mime processing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.29.2006 TCLLIB: update to version 1.8</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.11.2006 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.5</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.11.2006 WCSSUBS: fix a problem with naxis&gt;2</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.12.2006 NAME SERVER: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.12.2006 IMAGE SERVER: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.13.2006 CATALOGS: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.13.2006 REGIONS: fixed a problem with cut/copy/paste
+regions dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.25.2006 PREFS: preferences are automatically saved.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.25.2006 FITSY++: fixed a problem with large RGB arrays
+and streams.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.31.2006 RGB: add support for invert RGB colormap.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.31.2006 FIRST: add support for VLA FIRST image server.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.01.2006 HTTP: add timeout options to all geturl calls.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.02.2006 CATALOGS: add suppport for SDSS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.07.2006 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with cancel geturl
+tasks.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.14.2006 TKTABLE: fixed configure files for darwin intel.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.14.2006 TKIMG: fixed configure files for darwin intel.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.14.2006 AST: apply patch to plot.c at line 23207</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.17.2006 BIN: fixed a problem with binning 3D and
+integer cols.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.17.2006 BIN: fixed a problem with binning 3D and
+updating the bin dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.17.2006 SCALE: changed AUTO to sample only for mosaics. </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.30.2006 CATALOG: fixed a problem with filtering and
+column names to leading or trailing spaces. </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.31.2006 CATALOG: add support for CSV catalog files
+with/wo header. </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.06.2006 EPANDA: Fixed problems with rendering start and
+stop angles.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.2006 BPANDA: Fixed problems with rendering start and
+stop angles.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.11.2006 TEMPLATES: When creating templates, they were
+placed in the upper right corner of the frame. This has been changed to
+the center of the frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.11.2006 TEMPLATES: When templates where created via the
+gui, the screen was not refreshed properly. This has been corrected.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.12.2006 FITSY++: Fixed a problem with hist() and column
+values of 0, which was used as the default value.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.13.2006 COMPOSITE: Add complement angle.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.15.2006 CPANDA,EPANDA,BPANDA: fixed a conflict with
+funtools. Stop/start angles will alway increase in value.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.18.2006 MOSAIC IMAGE NEXT: removed support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.01.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b10</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.2006 I18N: Add Portuguese support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.01.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b10.1</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.2006 FITS: external support for bzip2.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.2006 REGIONS: fixed a problem with clipping regions
+in tile mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.03.2006 HV: add support for HTTP-EQUIV HTML Meta keyword.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.03.2006 PANDA: fixed a problem with zero length radius
+and printing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.10.2006 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.13.2006 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.13</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.13.2006 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b22</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.13.2006 TCLLIB: update to version 1.9</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.23.2006 LANGUAGE: add support for following languages
+fr,es,de,it,pt,ru,da.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.23.2006 HTTP: increase timeout to 3 minutes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2006 GUI: add view colorbar numerics support.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.31.2006 CATALOGS: add full symbol support via xpa/command line.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.31.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the optional catalog name as a parameter.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.31.2006 GUI: multi column frame and active frame menu.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.31.2006 GUI: multi column catalog col name menus.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.02.2006 XPA: add xpaget ds9 fits bitpix.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.06.2006 GUI: add confirmation option preference.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.28.2006 REGIONS: add xpa/command line option get info.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.28.2006 REGIONS: fits regions file: first look for extension [REGIONS], then attempt to load the first extension.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.29.2006 FITS: fixed a overflow problem with very very large fits images > 8Gb in size.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.06.2006 RGB: fixed a problem with aligning very large images.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.07.2006 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with wcs mosaicsa and very large images.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.09.2006 FITS: removed a kludge for defining the wcs tangent point that only affected AIR and AZP projections.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.12.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with default vertical layout. The default size is now consistent with other options.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.13.2006 SAVEAS: fixed a problem with PHYSICAL and WCS coordinates. They were 1 pixel off.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.13.2006 CPANDA/EPANDA: fixed a problem with render and printing with an image flipped.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.20.2006 RGB: NaN are now ignored when building an RGB image.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.22.2006 GUI: Increased default X size so that buttons do not cause automatic resizing.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.08.2007 PREFS: fixed a problem with frame parser and LoadPrefs so that a preferences file from version b9 will correctly parse.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.23.2007 FITS: Added additional checks for valid format and values for DATASEC, DETSEC, and DETSIZE keywords.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with redirect.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem measuring WCS lengths across wcs mosacis and RGB images.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.25.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rotated text regions.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.30.2007 DSS: Split DSS server into three servers.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.31.2007 GUI: add binning buffersize 8192 and binfactor 256.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>02.01.2007 RELEASE version 4.0b11</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.02.2007 CATALOGS: add cols.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.02.2007 VO: default url is now http://cxc.harvard.edu/chandraed/list.txt.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.2007 PREFERENCES: if ds9 detects a newer prefs file, it will not be processed.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.09.2007 SKYVIEW: added support for HEASARC's skyview image cutout service.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.09.2007 GUI: dropped the 'b' for beta, afterall, ds9 is always beta!<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.13.2007 CATALOGS: new non-modal search catalogs support.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.13.2007 CATALOGS: add show/hide support.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.15.2007 FIRST: fixed a problem with xpa first.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.15.2007 2MASS: fixed a problem with xpa 2mass.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.06.2007 MASK: add support for fits masks.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.06.2007 MOSAIC: remove support for 'fast mosaic' mode.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.06.2007 SCALE: added support for zscale parameter prefs.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.20.2007 FITSY++: add support for compressed FITS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.27.2007 WCS: fixed support for alt wcs for bin tables.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2007 REGIONS: add support for user specified point sizes<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.02.2007 GRID: fixed a problem with TNX projection.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.03.2007 FITSY++: split code supporting FITS ASCII tables and FITS Binary Tables.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.03.2007 FITSY++: removed code supporting FITS Binary Tables substring arrays.<br></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.03.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.8</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.03.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b30</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.7b2</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.06.2007 FITSY++: add support for RICE compressed FITS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.06.2007 SMOOTH: now implemented on a per channel basis for RGB.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.10.2007 WCSSUBS: backed out of wcscon.c to version 3.6.6 due to a bug in prec.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.12.2007 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with iis and iraf.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.15.2007 RELEASE version 4.12</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.16.2007 FITSIMAGE: fixed an bug with setting file names after a reset.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.26.2007 ESO-DSS: support new survey names.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.10.2007 NSVR: fixed a problem with xpa/command line name lookup.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.10.2007 NSVR: fixed a problem redirection.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.11.2007 TCL: realize ds9 before executing any external tcl source.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.11.2007 CATALOGS: for csv files, ignore any comment lines.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.21.2007 MOSAICS: fixed several problems with constructing mosaics from both IRAF and WCS keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.21.2007 IRAF MOSAICS: the image size is now defined by the actual data (just as with WCS) and not the DETSIZE keyword.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.30.2007 GRID: fixed a problem with plain font style that resulted in always using system and not the selected font.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.31.2007 ELLIPSE PANDA: fixed a problem incorrect postscript code.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.08.2007 GUI: fixed a problem with the Display Fits Header button.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.13.2007 FITS: add fits header command and xpa point.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.30.2007 RULER: fixed a problem with displaying the length text.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>07.15.2007 RELEASE version 4.13</b></tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
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+SAOImage DS9 Version 5 Release Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <ol>
+    <li><tt>07.16.2007 FITSY++: fix a problem with rice compressed
+images and multiple tiles.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.17.2007 MOSAIC: fix a problem with bin table extensions
+at the end of a mosaic image wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with loading external
+colormaps.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem colormap menus.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.23.2007 ARCHIVES: new url for skyview.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.23.2007 I18N: add language support for Japanese.
+(many thanks to Masahiro Tsujimoto!).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.23.2007 PIXEL TABLE: xpaget will now return the pixel
+table values.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.31.2007 SOLARISx86: now supporting solarisx86.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2007 PIXELTABLE: fixed a minor problem with xpaget
+pixeltable.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2007 IIS: fixed a problem with frame number greater
+than 10.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.15.2007 EXAMINE: changed frame name to 'Frame'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.02.2007 CATALOGS: updated urls and menu titles.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.20.2007 PREFS: new prefs dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the CDS query.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.24.2007 CATALOGS: add SDSS DR6.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.24.2007 SKYVIEW: fixed default image size and updated
+url.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.24.2007 PROJECTION: install callbacks only after Button
+Release.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.25.2007 REGIONS: add xpa/command SHOW and SHOWTEXT
+support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.25.2007 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with load contours
+from the command line.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.03.2007 MACOSX: MacOSX Aqua support is now fully
+implemented!</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.03.2007 COLORMAP: pass colormap names thru translation
+tables</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.8</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.05.2007 COMPOSITE: add global properties switch.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.05.2007 LINE: fixed a problem with initial displayed
+arrow checkboxes in dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.05.2007 FOV: moved FOV menu to more visible level</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.10.2007 I18N: add language support for French.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.11.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the symbol editor
+dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.15.2007 RELEASE version 5.0</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.16.2007 PROJECTION: fixed a problem with the coordinates
+of the projection plot.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.17.2007 RICE: fixed a problem with float and double RICE
+compression.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2007 RICE: fixed several problems with mosaics, cubes
+and RICE compression.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2007 GUI: added support for ds9 beta versions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2007 PREFS: added OK and Cancel buttons to all tabs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.29.2007 CATALOGS: implemented support for new CDS
+catalogs search format.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.30.2007 SAOTK: implemented reentrant parsers.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.01.2007 SAOTK: now support any color for markers,
+contours, etc.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.02.2007 MACOSX/WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native open
+file dialog. If bad file name had been used, (or an extention), an
+error would occur.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.07.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.16.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.08.2007 PLOT: fixed a problem with xpa/command line
+linear/line tokens to match documentation.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.09.2007 PREFERENCES: fixed a problem with slower ppcs.
+use 'update idletasks' instead of 'update' to avoid possible race
+condition.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.21.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.9</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.21.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.1</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.21.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.7.0</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.21.2007 TCLLIBS: update to version 1.10</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.28.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.17 beta.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.28.2007 ANALYSIS: fix a problem with spaces in tmp file
+names.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.2007 FLEXLEXER.Y: updated version.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.06.2007 GUI: change key binding 'c' to 'r'. It conflicts
+with 'copy' on MacOSX and Windows platforms.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.06.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with pasteing regions
+into an empty frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.18.2007 ZIP: fixed a problem with the unix Makefile.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.18.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.2.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.18.2007 2MASS: limit size to 1024 arcsec.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.21.2007 FITSY++: add support for HCOMPRESS compressed
+FITS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.28.2007 FITSY++: add support for GZIP compressed FITS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.03.2008 FITSY++: add support for PLIO compressed FITS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.04.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with X11 servers that
+return truecolor 32 bit when in fact the visual is truecolor 24bit.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>01.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.1</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.17.2008 ANALYSIS: add the directory of any loaded
+analysis file to the PATH.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.22.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem introduced with
+reentrant parsers. Sexagesimal values between -00 and +00 were
+incorrectly parsed as +00.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.23.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem with parsing HMS/DMS
+coordinates.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: fixed a problem shift rotate mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: info panel 'Frame' width set to +4.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: add new goto frame menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: add support for move frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.24.2008 ANALYSIS: for MacOSX tiger, wrap cmds with shell
+and PATH.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.25.2008 CATALOGS: make sure xpa and command line
+retrieves are syncronous.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.28.2008 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with loading contour
+levels into multiple frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.31.2008 WINDOWS: changed how windows come into focus.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.31.2008 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.17.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.2008 GUI: change default directory for standard
+dialog to $HOME.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.07.2008 ANALYSIS: add /sw/bin to default path for MacOSX.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.20.2008 CATALOGS: add support for editing a catalog
+table and regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.20.2008 TEXT: add enable rotation switch for text
+regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.20.2008 GUI: ds9 will now start in the users home
+directory for MacOSX Aqua users when invoked from a double click and
+the default dialog box is Motif or Windows.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.20.2008 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.18.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.26.2008 IIS: disable most keystroke and mouse events for
+iis frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.28.2008 FITSY++: fixed a problem with save fits and
+smoothed images.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.29.2008 WCS: fixed a problem with calculating the size
+and center of complex fits images in WCS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.05.2008 GUI: backed out change key binding 'c' to 'r'.
+It causes untold grief with IRAF.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.2008 MACOSX: fixed a problem with printing non
+standard colors.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.2008 CATALOGS: catalog dialogs are now tied to the
+frame. This allows multiple copies of the same catalog, one per frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.2008 GRID: added support for PC001001 formated WCS
+keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.13.2008 IIS: make sure socket is closed on exec.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.13.2008 WINDOWS: add support for native printing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2008 CROSSHAIR: fix a problem with the line width for
+postscript.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2008 MACOSX: restore postscript printing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2008 WINDOWS: restore postscript printing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.19.2008 GUI: enhancements with Find/FindNext in text
+dialog windows.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.19.2008 GUI: add console support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2008 REGIONS: apply WCS to fits regions if present.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.25.2008 PREFS: fixed a problem with Zoom menu
+preferences.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.31.2008 GUI: add support for user configured button bar.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.03.2008 CATALOGS: add support for simbad.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.04.2008 MASKS: fixed a problem with mask color
+preference.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.07.2008 IMEXAMINE: added support for key stroke events.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.2</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.18.2008 REGIONS: added support for centroid.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.21.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with 'c' and control-c.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.21.2008 IIS: fixed a problem key events. Now all key
+events are active until IIS is in cursor mode. At this point all key
+events are passed to IRAF except for 'TAB'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.23.2008 MACOSX: split the binary and archive into two
+files, and codesign the binary, so that it will play well with
+leopard's new firewall.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.25.2008 FITSY++: fixed a proble with mapincr. If seek_
+is at end of file, mmap will not return an error.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2008 GUI: delete all frames resets the frame counter
+(broken in 5.2).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.02.2008 GCC: remove all references to <iostream.h> and
+use <iostream> instead.</iostream></iostream.h></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.02.2008 GCC: support for gcc 4.2.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.02.2008 GUI: fix typo in bin.tcl menus.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.03.2008 FITSY++: changes to processing the header where
+ds9 will now work with illegal fits files that contains NULLs instead
+of SPACEs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.03.2008 RICE: implemented compatibility with cfitsio
+3.08.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.04.2008 GZIP: implemented compatibility with cfitsio
+3.08.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.04.2008 HCOMPRESS: implemented compatibility with
+cfitsio 3.08.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.05.2008 IIS: disable scale menu with iis frame (fixed
+from version 5.2).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.05.2008 REGIONS: fixed FITS regions polygon support. Now
+determine how many points based on the repeat value of the column, but
+check for .</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.06.2008 FITS: for saveimage fits, if non-linear WCS,
+don't attempt to save WCS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.06.2008 BLINK: add xpa/command line option -blink
+interval.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.06.2008 REGIONS: add for DASH property.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.11.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem with the 'delete all'
+button.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.16.2008 XPA: if CHECKDNS fails, set XPA_METHOD to local
+and initialize.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.21.2008 PROJECTION: minor change to ensure that we step
+over the grid in 1 pixel values.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.24.2008 IIS: add support for all 16 IIS colors.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.25.2008 BINNING: fixed a problem with smooth and 3d
+binning.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.04.2008 FITSY++: fixed a problem with BSCALE/BZERO and
+float/double data types.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.11.2008 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with catalogs retrieved
+via a cds search. The id returned would fail during evaluation in
+creating a valid header.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.11.2008 CATALOGS: add CMC to catalog menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.11.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with the initial directory
+for the standard dialog when loading from the command line.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.14.2008 VECTOR: vast improvements in optimization.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.2008 GUI: catch a failure to initialize window system
+(a problem with X11) and exit nice.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.2008 MACOSX: fixed the window tab problem for Aqua
+port.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.19.2008 MACOSX: fixed canvas background issues.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.20.2008 GUI: Add buttons to vertical layout.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.10.2008 XPA: fixed a problem with blink interval &lt; 1.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.12.2008 PREFS: add 'Preserve During Load' for scale,
+pan, and regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.12.2008 CONTOUR: add dash line option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.17.2008 PANNER: check to see if we are at pole.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.17.2008 CATALOGS: add copy from row(s).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.17.2008 REGIONS: look for new FITS POLYGON termination
+conditions</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.2008 COLORBAR: removed truecolor colorbar options.
+Always paint the entire image.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.25.2008 BINNING: automatically look for x,y then ra,dec,
+before settling for columns 1 and 2.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.25.2008 IMEXAM: added 'any' event (returns with a mouse
+event or key event).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.02.2008 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with size format for
+SIMBAD and NED. Degrees and ArcSecs were incorrectly calculated.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.03.2008 CATALOGS: Add support for CXC catalog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.08.2008 MACOSX: add MacOSX X11 10.5 firewall port.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.10.2008 FOV: add sao/binospec.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.3</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.17.2008 CATALOGS: removed support for Chandra Source
+Catalog at request of Ian Evans of CXC.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.22.2008 MASKS: add support for mask transparency.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2008 MASKS: add new mask properties.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.28.2008 GRID: add grid title support.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.31.2008 RELEASE version 5.4</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.31.2008 GRID: full grid support for command line and xpa.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.04.2008 FITSY: fixed a problem with header keywords that
+start with 'END'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.13.2008 FITSY: fixed a problem when there was a failure
+to correctly parse iraf or wcs keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.02.2008 FITS: for saveimage fits, fixed a problem with
+LTMV,DTMV, and WCS coordinates. They were off by 1 pixel in x.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.02.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with panning via click and
+drag.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.04.2008 MPEG: changed makefiles to compile tkmpeg code
+without optiminzation. -O created invalid code for MacOSX (and possible
+others)</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.04.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem when creating a default
+panda region via a mouse click.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.2008 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a problem with printing frames
+that have no image loaded.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.05.2008 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with using the arrow
+keys in catalog dialogs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem elongated rotated
+ellipses.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.2008 MACOSX: fixed several problems with processing
+AppleEvents OpenDocument and PrintDocument. DS9 now supports opendoc
+and printdoc while currently running.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.12.2008 IIS: re-enabled mouse events while in cursor
+mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.12.2008 IIS: trap arrow keys while in cursor mode, do
+not pass to IRAF, instead warp cursor.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.2008 SMOOTH: ignore NAN in smoothing convolution.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.16.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with 'get fits size' to
+make it behave in the regions of poles.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.29.2008 IIS: try to decode OBJECT from iisMessageCmd.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.29.2008 IIS: if frame is in cursor mode (via the imexam
+task), RESET FRAME, will attempt to clean up.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.05.2009 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.2.2</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.05.2009 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.7.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.05.2009 GUI: add support for loading FITS multiple
+extension as multiple frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.05.2009 EXAMINE: fixed many problems. Will work not work
+with data loaded via stdin or xpa fits.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.15.2009 SMOOOTH: fixed a problem with BZERO and BSCALE.
+These keywords are reset to default values if present in the smoothed
+image, since the scaling has already been applied.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.15.2009 FILTER: fixed an issue when unable to build a
+valid filter. Previously, it would exit() the program. Now, it will
+issue an error message and continue.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.16.2009 MACOSX: if using the X11 port of MacOSX,
+increase the size of the window to make room for the size tab, similar
+for Aqua.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.16.2009 SAVEAS: PNG now saves without GAMMA.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.20.2009 GUI: Rearrange Frame menu and Region menu. They
+had grown too long and some window managers were having difficulties.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.21.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem rendering Bezier curves.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>01.23.2009 RELEASE version 5.5</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>01.28.2009 RELEASE version 5.5.1</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.28.2009 GUI: fixed a problem in that the last file name
+loaded is incorrectly set if there are command line options that follow
+the file name.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.02.2009 CATALOGS: updated urls for cds mirrors.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.03.2009 CATALOGS: cleaned up tsv code. Will read comma
+and tab separted values, and will write tab separated values. Assumes
+first row is cols header unless first and second cols are numbers, then
+assumes ra, dec, in fk5 degrees.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.04.2009 PSEUDOCOLOR: fixed a problem with the frame not
+remembering its current colormap bias and contrast setting when
+toggling between frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.10.2009 BLT: fixed a problem zoombox under Aqua. XOR
+draws are now disabled.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.11.2009 CIAO: The ciao regions parser will now accept
+compound region descriptions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.12.2009 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with command line/xpa
+dashed line parameter. Processing the -contour command is now a lot more robust in determining missing parameters.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.16.2009 HISTOGRAM EQU: fixed a problem with clipping low = clipping high (usually as a result of ZSCALE).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.19.2009 FITSY++: fixed a problem specifying an extension number of 0 with a multiple extension file with no primary image. It now properly fails to load.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.19.2009 GUI: FITS multiple extension multiple frame will now load a primary image if present.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.19.2009 GUI: compressed FITS multiple extension multiple frame will now load properly.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.19.2009 GUI: FITS multiple extension multiple frame will ignore any bin table extensions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.19.2009 BLT: add support for MacOSX native printing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.19.2009 PLOT: native printing now fully supported for MacOSX and Windows.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.24.2009 SAMP: add support for VO Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP). Will process image.load.fits and table.load.votable events.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.2009 FITSY++: fixed a problem with saving a slice of a cube. The header had invalid keywords.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.27.2009 CATALOGS: support VOTable format.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.2009 MacOSX: support for the MacOSX X11 Leopard 10.5 non-firewall version has been discontinued.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.2009 MacOSX: fixed a problem with plot y axis titles offset.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.2009 MacOSX: fixed a problem fork/exec and version 10.5 New version of tclMacNotify.c now used.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.09.2009 FUNTOOLS: updated to version 1.4.3.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem with listing irregular panda, ellipse panda, and box panda in ds9/funtools format. The conjunction has been removed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.2009 GUI: If in tile mode, with only one frame, and tile mode is set to manual, tile anyway (don't drop into single mode).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.2009 CATALOGS: speed up rendering of catalogs for simple symbol filters.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.2009 REGIONS: support wildcards in filename.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.12.2009 REGIONS: add support for load into all frames.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.17.2009 GUI: Name server support now utilizies CDS Sesame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.17.2009 SKYVIEW: fixed a problem processing the survey query.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2009 HV: add support for cookies.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2009 ARCHIVES: add support for NVO Montage.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem calculating the WCS angle of a flipped WCS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.18.2009 HV: add support for mime-type text/xml for votable.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.19.2009 CATALOGS: CDS now uses VOTABLE.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2009 CATALOGS: SIMBAD now uses VOTABLE.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2009 CATALOGS: NED now uses VOTABLE.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2009 CATALOGS: add preferences to download in VOTABLE if available.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.01.2009 GUI: when you delete a frame, the current frame is reset to the previous frame, not the first frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.06.2009 RULER: use preferences default distance system.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.06.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with open other url.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.09.2009 PROJECTION: properly calculate width when rebinning.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.15.2009 RELEASE version 5.6</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.16.2009 REGIONS: fixed a rather nasty bug which caused a segv when switching between modes after copy a region from a frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.16.2009 RELEASE version 5.6.1</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.17.2009 SAMP: use xmlrpc url method in POST header.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.17.2009 CATALOGS: fixed a typo in the default SDSSR5 query.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.20.2009 HV: fixed a problem with parsing query linked to a button.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.20.2009 RELEASE version 5.6.2</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.22.2009 PREFS: updated the default name server menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.24.2009 FIRST: removed a debug statement which was left in.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.27.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem loading a fits file with specified extension.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.28.2009 HV: fixed again a problem with parsing url within a link with a query which contains a '?'.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>04.30.2009 RELEASE version 5.6.3</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.01.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem creating a text region with arcsec or arcmin char.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.01.2009 NAMESRVR: fixed a problem with simbad cfa sexagesimal.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.01.2009 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with quoting a VOTABLE FIELD DESCRIPTION string.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.01.2009 CATALOGS: add column parameters in header output.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.04.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with select row list.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.04.2009 REGIONS: add list to xpa and command line regions option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.21.2009 NVSS: add NVSS Image server back.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.26.2009 NAMESRVR: set default name server to cds.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.26.2009 CATALOGS: set default catalog erver to cds.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.26.2009 SAMP: fixed a proble with quoting filenames and urls for xml.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.26.2009 CATALOGS: will now try to determine the RA and DEC cols via the UCD if available.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.26.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with standard dialog boxes and MacOSX Aqua and Windows. The dialogbox would sometimes fail to rise to top.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.27.2009 GUI: WCS menu correctly updates print coordinate parameters.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.27.2009 REGIONS: autocentroid now works for move, edit, and rotate.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.27.2009 CATALOGS: CDS Search now retrieves search options from cds.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.27.2009 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with FILTER and VOTable. The votable cols params were not being properly transfered to the new filtered table.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.10.2009 REGIONS: DS9 regions syntax now supported in VOTable format.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.2009 CATALOGS: "No Items Found" is now displayed on status line and not as a model dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.2009 REGIONS: fixed problem with dashed lines with rotated ellipses.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.2009 GUI: fixed problem with standard file dialog boxes. Now, command line options and xpa command DOES NOT CHANGE the current directory. Only the use of the dialog box will reset the current directory.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.2009 SAMP: don't send empty catalogs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.2009 CATALOGS: don't write empty catalogs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.11.2009 FILTER: fixed a problem with parsing filters on the command line that contain quotes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.16.2009 SAMP: the samp port number is now automatically determined at connection time.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.2009 CATALOGS: for VOTables, change id to ID.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.2009 CATALOGS: Add ID param to CXC catalog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.2009 SAMP: send unique catalog table-id for each catalog so tha multiple copies of ds9 with the same catalog loaded don't walk all over each other when connected to a hub.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.18.2009 REGIONS: Update info box, graphs, and pixel table when draging in pointer and catalog mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.18.2009 GUI: clean up code which enables/disables WCS menus based on current frame.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.19.2009 HV: add support for arrow keys and mouse wheel.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.19.2009 HV: add support for copy key shortcut.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.19.2009 HV: add support for Return key shortcut for Submit.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.25.2009 GUI: update crosshair, infobox, pixeltable when changing current slice in crosshair mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.25.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem with create/load/save regions with mosaic. The WCS of the first mosaic segment loaded is used for all regions.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.30.2009 REGIONS: removed listwcs option for ds9 format.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.30.2009 IIS: disabled annoying 'port/addr already in use' error message.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.06.2009 BINNING: add update button to bin dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.06.2009 HV: add enhancements to allow complete control over a web browser window.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.06.2009 VO: add enhancements to allow complete control over the vo dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.09.2009 XPA: 'page setup' has been renamed pagesetup.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.2009 HV: support for sync http added.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.2009 VO: support for sync http added.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.2009 ANALYSIS: support for sync http added.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.2009 ANALYSIS: analysis tasks invoked via xpa or command line  are now run in blocking (sync) mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.16.2009 XPA: added optional param to xpaget array to specify the endianness.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.05.2009 XPA: add sleep command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.05.2009 GUI: add sleep command line option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.10.2009 GUI: fixed command line option commands.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.10.2009 CATALOGS: for CDS catalogs, ignore the UCD at first and look for _RAJ2000 and _DEJ2000, then the UCD, then a list of common names.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.11.2009 GUI: update Magnifier in Pan mode and key arrows.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.12.2009 WINDOWS: Add support for wildcard filename expansion if invoked from DOS shell.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.12.2009 REGIONS: Add support for load template at ra dec skyframe.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.20.2009 MOSAIC: default for loading mosaics is now WCS not IRAF.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.25.2009 SAMP: implemented full XPA capabilities via SAMP.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.25.2009 I18N: make changes to fitsy++ lexer to allow non-single byte chars in filenames and paths.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.26.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with parsing the hub.xmlrup.url.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.26.2009 XPA: update to version 2.1.10.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.27.2009 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.4.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with extra key value pairs in message.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2009 CATALOGS: add default samp command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2009 CATALOGS: removed modal dialog info box calls. Messages are now updated in the status windows.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2009 GUI: added new level of menu updates that are only executed when a frame is create or deleted and not everytime there is a change of state.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.03.2009 WINDOWS: disable menu updates during blinking because windows redraws the menu window each time the configuration is changed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.03.2009 SOLARIS: removed support for Solaris<9.0. DS9 now requires libxml2 be supported by the OS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.03.2009 GUI: added signal handling for non-windows. We now trap SIGINT and clean up before exiting.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.2009 I18N: fixed a problem with spaces in filename.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.08.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem using a hub that uses the Apache xmlrpc library.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.10.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with invalid ds9.get commands.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.10.2009 GUI: cmap xpa, samp, and command line option is now much more tolerant to capitalization and spellings.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.10.2009 WINDOWS: tcc is now used for the bin filter compiler. cygwin is no longer required.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.2009 MACOSX: ports to Tiger (10.4), Leopard (10.5), and Snow Leopard (10.6) are now built under 10.6</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.2009 MACOSX: fixed a problem with snowleopard. For 32bit visuals, the alpha channel is set to 0xff, not 0.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.28.2009 XPA: add XPA connect/disconnect menu options.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.29.2009 RGB: fixed a problem with displaying images with NAN.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.02.2009 MACOSX: pcc is now used for the bin filter compiler of i386 platforms if XCode is not installed./tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.09.2009 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with analysis plot command to maintain backward compatibility./tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.12.2009 SMOOTH: fixed a problem that smooth is reset when no image is loaded. /tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.15.2009 RELEASE version 5.7</b></tt></li>
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+SAOImage DS9 Version 6 Release Notes</h3>
+<ol>
+  <ol>
+    <li><tt>10.20.2009 XPA: moved processing xpa command line options to first pass, and init xpa earlier in startup, so that vo and web click can be processed along with regular command line options. </tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2009 UPDATE: fixed a problem with trying to provide support for backward compatibility.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2009 IMGSVR: fixed a problem with trying to provide support for backward compatibility</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2009 GUI: sleep command arg is now optional</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.24.2009 MOSAIC: IRAF mosaics are now layed out based on the first segment load, like WCS mosaics</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.27.2009 GUI: fixed a problem if you delete all frames, some of the load commands (such as -rgbcube) are not executed until there is a new frame. Now, if there are no frames, the load command will create a new frame if needed</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.28.2009 REGION: Corrected a problem with creating templates from a VAR. Uncommented old syntax which has been superceeded</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.02.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with 'grid numlab gap2'</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.02.2009 AST: updated to version 5.3-1
+    <li><tt>11.05.2009 TILE: corrected documentation for '-tile grid layout', should be column #, row #</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.05.2009 DATACUBE: fixed a problem with '-wcs replace|reset|append'. The result WCS is now applied to all slices</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.05.2009 XPA: fixed a problem with 'xpaset wcs replace foo.wcs'</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.13.2009 RICE: updated to cfitsio 3210/tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.16.2009 COMPRESS: fixed a problem with compression that extends over a page boundry of 1Gb</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.30.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with exterior numerics and zoomed images</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>11.30.2009 HELP: combine FAQ and ISSUES pages</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.04.2009 RGB: aux contour overlays are now displayed on a per channel basis</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.07.2009 RGB: rgb images with data cubes can now set the current slice on a per channel basis</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.07.2009 VO: fixed a problem with xpa keep-alive</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.2009 TK: fixed a problem MacOSX X11 standard file dialog boxes. Borrowed code from tk8.5 to correct the problem when events are added to X11</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with modal dialogs when the user closed the window via the window manager and not the OK/CANCEL button</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.10.2009 XPA: update to version 2.1.11</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.14.2009 RGB: fixed a problem with a incorrect WCS compass in the panner image</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.2009 WCS: Documented the old ALIGN command and updated for XPA and SAMP</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.15.2009 GUI: Values accepted for SKYFORMAT expanded to 'deg', 'degree', and 'degrees' for command line options, XPA, and SAMP</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.17.2009 WCS: added code to test for bad WCS alignment issues (mainly from CAR projection, or pole problems)</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.17.2009 WCS: added code for WCS alignment for CAR. If CAR, getWCScrpix() is taken from center of image, and not from CRPIX keywords</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.18.2009 CATALOG: added USNO UCAC3 to the Optical list</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.24.2009 DATACUBE: DS9 now supports FITS images up to 10 dimensions. Happy Holidays!</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.28.2009 ANALYSIS: fixed problems with $data and $url and spaces in the tmp directory path name</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.28.2009 COMM: fixed problems with spaces in file names received as argumetns via SAMP and http</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.29.2009 REGION: fixed problems with XPA/SAMP and -format/-system/-sky options</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.29.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with hiding the current frame</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: at EXIT, close all opened HV windows so that tmp files may be deleted</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type 'multipart/mixed', a tmp file was not deleted</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type 'text/plain', a tmp file was not deleted</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2009 ANALYSIS: add $filedialog(open) and $filedialog(save) macros</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>12.30.2009 GUI: allow filenames starting with a '-'</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.07.2009 I18N: for X11 port, look for LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL, LANG env vars to set langage in that order</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.07.2009 I18N: update Japanese language translation</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.07.2009 CONTOUR: fix muliple problems with command line contour options. Each frame will now remember contour params between frames</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.08.2009 ANALYSIS: minor changes in output of get analysis commands. Now include parameters for web and bind commands</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.11.2009 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with the orientation of the numerics for vertical colorbar. This problem was introduced with AST-5.3</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.11.2009 RGB: fixed a memory leak for RGB frames</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.11.2009 I18N: update Japanese language translation</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.11.2009 MACOSX: fixed a problem with non-native standard file dialog boxes and error messages</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.12.2009 AST: fixed a memory leak with colorbar grid.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.13.2009 PLOT: fixed a rare problem when the user closes a plot while in the middle of a zoom.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.13.2009 IRAF: fixed a problem for mosaic iraf images are loaded and the bounding box is incorrectly calculated.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>01.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.0</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.27.2010 XPA: fixed a problem with reporting errors during an XPA operation. The correct error message is now passed to XPA.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.27.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with reporting errors during an SAMP operation. The correct error message is now passed to SAMP.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.27.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with catch and XPA/SAMP. Errors are now reset when needed so as not to invoke an XPA/SAMP ERROR message.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>01.27.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.12</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.02.2010 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with manually entered contours values.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add numerics equal distance option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add colorbar size option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: move colorbar parameters from view menu to colorbar menu.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.18.2010 MACOSX: fixed a problem where pcc was always being installed. Now, first look for FILTER_CC (valid for X11 users only). Next, see if /usr/bin/gcc exists. Finally, install pcc if needed, and set to use it.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.2010 SCALE: fixed numerous problems with LOG and POW scales. Previously, the exp value of the log ratio was based on the dynamic range of the data. It is now specified by the user. This solves a number of issues with data which contains negative values. (see new documenation on scale equations).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>02.25.2010 CATALOG: CSC is now loaded as a VOTABLE by default.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.02.2010 CATALOG: add support for SkyBot catalog server.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.03.2010 MACOSX: printing, reduce image by 5% so colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.03.2010 WINDOWS: printing, reduce image by 5% so colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.03.2010 HV: fixed a problem with MouseWheel scrolling under X11.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.04.2010 ZOOM: added support for mouse wheel zoom.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.04.2010 HV: added support for Find and FindNext.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.2010 POSTSCRIPT: if colorbar and colorbar numerics are visible, reduce image by 5% so colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.2010 PRINT: add psprint xpa/command/samp command for postscript printing on MacOSX and Windows.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.10.2010 GRID: add support for custom numeric formats.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.17.2010 BIN: add support for Match Bin.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.23.2010 FITS: add a check tor binary tables with no rows or cols.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native printing and bitmaps that were not aligned upon a word boundary.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with rendering circle point and box circle point.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.26.2010 HV: fixed a rather nasty bug. If a HV window is open when prefs are saved, the next time ds9 is started, upon exist it tried to close an non-existent window, and went into a loop.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>03.29.2010 SAMP: add support for table.load.fits events.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.13.2010 BACKUP: add support for backup and restore.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.14.2010 GUI: ensure all temp files in /tmp have unique names which will not conflict with other programs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.14.2010 RGB: corrected inconsistant behavior. The creation of a RGB frame will not alter the single/tile setting.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.16.2010 TK: fixed a problem with some tk lib scripts not sourced at startup and if -cd is executed, ds9 is unable to locate the scripts.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.16.2010 CIAO: removed any conjuction operators (which are not supported).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.16.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a rather nasty memory bug which was invoked when the colorbar was re-configured.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.23.2010 BACKUP: backup save sets can be saved into on a repeat basis.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.26.2010 SCALE: fixed a problem with segv and Scale Dialog box.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.26.2010 GUI: fixed a problem matching frames while in single mode.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>04.29.2010 GUI: add cycle windows key shortcut.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.04.2010 WINDOWS: new windows installation procedure.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.06.2010 CATALOG: add IAU location code in preferences (for Skybot).</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.10.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with projection region when one or both end points are off the image. All gaps (mosaic) or off image (non-mosaic) have a value of 0 and NaNs are ignored.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.12.2010 VOTable: add support for FIEDref and PARAMref elements.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>05.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.1</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.18.2010 WINDOWS: change windows installation procedure back to allow user to specify destination directory.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.18.2010 SAMP: fixed an issue with DS9 being confused as to if it is currently connected and the need to shutdown SAMP at exit.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>05.18.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.1</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.19.2010 BACKUP: fixed several major problems.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.19.2010 PSEUDOCOLOR: fixed a typo.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>05.19.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.2</b></tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.20.2010 MACOSX: always install pcc if gcc not available. We don't want old versions of pcc around after upgrades of the OS.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.28.2010 PLOT: added statistics window for plots.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.28.2010 PLOT: fixed some problems with menus and clear data.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>05.28.2010 NAMESERVER: add get option to return coords directly to calling proc.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.2010 CHECKDNS: update chechdns to add support for actually connect.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.17.2010 VO: use checkdns to look for active server. If none found, used hard coded list.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.2010 ZOOM TO FIT: center image exactly, do not round to nearest whole pixel.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.2010 BACKUP: don't save prefs(version) var. We want the current preference file version, not the save set version.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.21.2010 GUI: ds9 will now look for its auxiliary file using the current name of the executable.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>06.30.2010 WCS: add WCS Edit dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.2010 XPA: add frame has command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.01.2010 SAMP: add frame has command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.09.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with updating the connect meun item after a manual disconnect.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.09.2010 SAMP: added support for SAMP_HUB env var.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.13.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with a bad default -size param. This problem only showed up with a pseudocolor8 visual.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for internal error message facility. Any fatal internal error event will trigger an GUI error message, hopefully leaving the user the option to save data and to exit gracefully.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for trapping the SIGBUS signal and routing it to the internal error message facilty. This usually occurs when a data file has been overwritten or a shared memory segment is no longer available.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>07.27.2010 PLOT: save font info when save configuration.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.04.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with the close button on EPANDA and BPANDA dialog boxes.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.05.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem when the image is all one value.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.10.2010 GUI: add Frame Match Image, Physical, Detector, Amplifier buttons.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier prefs for XPA, SAMP, and the command line.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier color option.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.17.2010 GRID: fixed a problem with init colors.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.17.2010 GRID: now supports colors in form #ffffff.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.18.2010 CONTOURS: fixed an issue when loading aux contours which do not end with a linefeed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when printing colorbar from the command line. The numerics are now updated before printing.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when rendering numerics. Numerics are now properly positioned, regardless of colorbar orientation or font.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.25.2010 GRID: fixed a number of issues when rendering grid numerics. Numerics are now properly positioned, regardless of orientation or font.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.27.2010 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a rather nastsy prolblem with the level 2 postscript driver (Ascii85 filter) in which, sometimes, the last line of the image would not be written.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.30.2010 POSTSCRIPT: add new postscript level 3 driver, which uses Flate and Ascii85 filters.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.31.2010 COLORBAR: add support for user specified number of tickmarks to be displayed.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>08.31.2010 CATALOG: The user can now invoke a blank catalog tool via the command line, xpa, or samp.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2010 TCL/TK: upate to version 8.5.8.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.01.2010 CATALOG: add font properties to display symbol database.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.07.2010 CATALOG: now supports image/physical coordinate systems.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.2010 CONTOUR: copy/paste contours no longer requires equatorial sky param.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.2010 REGION: copy/paste contours no longer requires equatorial sky param.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.21.2010 SAVEAS: add optional params for jpeg, mpeg and tiff command line options.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.2010 FOV: update Chandra Templates.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.22.2010 GUI: add open and close support for XPA, SAMP, and command line, for all dialogs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.28.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with generating colorbar values when no frame is available.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.2010 HV: fixed a problem with multiple cookies, which created a bad header.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.2010 VO: fixed a problem with 'xpaget ds9 vo connect'. Now returns only the current connections, not all possible connections.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.2010 REGION: added check for no frame and no image loaded for xpaset regions via stdin.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>09.30.2010 ANALYSIS: add 'task #|name' command.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.01.2010 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem when an analysis file was loaded after an image had been loaded. Them menu was not properly updated to reflect the template for each menu item.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.05.2010 CUBE: fixed a problem in which sometimes changing the current slice whould hang.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.05.2010 CUBE: add support for WCS in cube dialog.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.07.2010 CENTROID: add support centroid params xpa/command line.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.07.2010 CENTROID: fix some problems with an offset of .5 pixels.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.07.2010 SMOOTH: new frames inherit current smooth params.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.07.2010 RGB: fixed a problem when the first image load has a flipped wcs.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.08.2010 REGION: add CIRCLE3D region.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.11.2010 BACKUP: fixed a problem with smoothed images and contours.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.14.2010 HELP: fixed a problem with finding the help files if the CD command has changed the default directory.</tt></li>
+    <li><tt>10.14.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.13</tt></li>
+    <li><tt><b>10.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.2</b></tt></li>
+  </ol>
+</ol>
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+    <h3> <img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98"
+        width="100"> SAOImage DS9 Version 7 Release Notes</h3>
+    <ol>
+      <ol>
+        <li><tt>10.18.2010 SCALE: fixed a problem preserve Scale at
+            load.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.18.2010 REGION: add group new, group update, and
+            select invert commands.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.20.2010 TCL/TK: update to version 8.5.9.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.01.2010 FOV: Add HEASARC/Suzaku templates for HXD,
+            XIS, and XRS</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.03.2010 CATALOG: fixed a problem when dec is
+            specified as -00:xx:xx for CXC, SIMBAD, SKYBOT, and SKYVIEW</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.07.2010 BINNING: update WCS keywords for FITS
+            bintables</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.10.2010 GUI: fixed a problem with displaying greek
+            letters under linux.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.24.2010 MOSAIC: fixed a problem introduced with
+            verison 6.1 with wcs mosaics when first segment is flipped.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.24.2010 MOSAIC: removed the FLT_EPSILON fudge factors
+            in calculating mosaic segment matrices.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.04.2011 SOLARIS: fixed a major bug with color
+            allocation.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.03.2011 POSTSCRIPT: all ports now generate identical
+            postscript output (with a minor exception with ast grid
+            numerics).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.03.2011 TEXT: selecting a TEXT region now handles
+            rotated text correctly.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.18.2011 GROUPS: fixed a problem with selecting
+            multiple regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.21.2011 PIXELTABLE: fixed two problems with xpa and
+            copy commands.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.28.2011 GUI: add theme options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.01.2011 TKTABLE: updated to version 2.10.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.03.2011 POSTSCRIPT: add new scale factor.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.02.2011 GUI: all dialogs now use the new ttk widgets
+            (with a few exceptions).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.04.2011 PREFS: add -bg and -nan xpa/command line
+            options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.14.2011 MOSAIC: added patch from Frank Valdes for
+            default DETSIZE values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.14.2011 CMAP: add load/save xpa/command line options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.14.2011 BACKUP: fixed a problem with saved cmaps.
+            Pathname is now relative.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.17.2011 TKIMG: updated to version 1.4.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.17.2011 ZLIB: updated to version 1.2.5</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.18.2011 WCSSUBS: updated to version 3.8.2</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.05.2011 AST: updated to version 5.6-0</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.05.2011 WCS: fixed/improved support for TNX, ZPN,
+            ZPX, CAR.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.25.2011 WCS: use AST for most WCS functions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.25.2011 SCALE: fix Scale Dialog formating issues.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2011 HELP: All user manual images are now local.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2011 CONTOUR: fixed problem with generating
+            contours with BITPIX=-64.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2011 SMOOTH: now generates BITPIX=-64 image.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.27.2011 SCALE: fixed a problem with setting scale
+            user limits and then loading an image.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.28.2011 EXTERNAL FILE: fixed a problem with macro
+            substitution $filename.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.28.2011 FUNTOOLS: updated to version 1.4.5.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.28.2011 XPA: reinstalled version 2.1.13.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.02.2011 WCS: use AST for all FITS WCS projections and
+            DSS. Use WCSSUBS for TNX, ZPX, SIP, SCAMP, WCSDEP.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.06.2011 WCS: Added additional reverse transformation
+            (thanks Ed Los) for calculation of Panner WCS compass.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.09.2011 GRID: add support for non-standard WCSDEP
+            keyword.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.12.2011 IMGSVR: for all image servers
+            (2mass,dss,first,nvss,skyview) if invoked with no argument,
+            yet dialog has a name or coords, automatically retreive the
+            image.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.12.2011 FITS: External File support- fixed a problem
+            where the channel was not closed after the open pipe cmd was
+            invoked and ds9 would run out of resources.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.13.2011 GUI: enhanced/implemented Match/Lock
+            Crosshairs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.13.2011 GUI: enhanced/implemented Match/Lock Frames.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.13.2011 GUI: Moved Match Scale/Bin/Colorbar to
+            respective menus.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.16.2011 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with NAN in data.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.17.2011 CATALOG: NED fixed a problem with getURL and
+            added support for in/out sys/sky formats.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.19.2011 CATALOG: SIMBAD added support for in/out
+            sys/sky formats.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.19.2011 CATALOG: CDS added support for in/out
+            sys/sky formats.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.20.2011 COMPOSITE: speed up create/delete composite
+            region with +1000 regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.20.2011 WCS: implemented preferred WCS for each
+            frame. All WCS functions use the preferred WCS (i.e.
+            copy/paste/load/save regions, contours, align, match, lock,
+            rgb, cube).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.25.2011 WCSSUBS: updated to version 3.8.3.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.25.2011 AST: updated to version 5.7-0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.26.2011 WCS: use AST for TNX,ZPX,SCAMP.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.27.2011 REGIONS: if unable to copy/cut/paste in WCS,
+            fall back upon PHYSICAL.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.27.2011 REGIONS: if unable to map coordinates
+            correctly, do not a region.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.03.2011 WCS: added support for xLON/xLAT and xyLN
+            xyLT WCS.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.03.2011 REGIONS: added regions properites commands to
+            xpa,samp, and command line.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.10.2011 HEALPIX: added support for generating an
+            image from a healpix table (both binary and ascii).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.13.2011 WCS: use AST for all WCS including TAN-SIP
+            and WCSDEP.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.16.2011 SAMP: added code to clean up better when DS9
+            is unable to parse a SAMP hub file.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.16.2011 REGIONS: be sure to return template id when
+            created.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.16.2011 ANALYSIS: added autoload support for analysis
+            files. DS9 will search a list of known dirs for *.ds9, at
+            which DS9 will load the analysis file, and add the path to
+            env(PATH).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.20.2011 RGB: fixed a problem where the calculated wcs
+            rotation between two frames was reset.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.27.2011 REGIONS: fixed a problem the ds9, ciao, and
+            pros regions parser. The parsers will now accept arcmin and
+            arcsec syntax which includes sciencetific notation.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.07.2011 POSTSCRIPT: generate postscipt now uses
+            generic font names reguardless of platform and window
+            manager.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.08.2011 BIN: split mousewheel preferences between
+            zoom and binning. By default, a bin file is zoom'd in/out
+            with the mouse wheel, unless the binning mouse wheel is
+            enabled via the preferences.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.08.2011 GUI: add preference for standard dialog box
+            for order of file types.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.21.2011 GUI: all non-modal dialogs have Edit menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.21.2011 CUBE: add match/lock slice commands.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.22.2011 AST: updated to version 5.7-2</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.22.2011 WCS: speedup generating sexagesimal output</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.25.2011 BIN: fixed a problem with the update filter
+            function.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.29.2011 DIALOGS: fixed a problem with the motif
+            dialogbox and selection of the initial directory. Set the
+            code to the same as tkfmbox.tcl.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.22.2011 WCS: if CTYPE is not of known type, assume
+            LINEAR.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.26.2011 PANNER: simplified compass prefs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.19.2011 WCS: only use A_ and B_ keywords if CTYPE is
+            TAN-SIP. Ignore otherwise.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.26.2011 REGIONS: use ::math::fuzzy for comparisons in
+            basepanda, composite, and convert.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.27.2011 WCSSUBS: updated to version 3.8.4.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.30.2011 REGIONS: implemented M_PI_2, M_TWOMPI
+            constants.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.30.2011 REGIONS: use fuzzy math for degToRad() and
+            radToDeg()</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.04.2011 WCS: pass any PV and QV keywords if present,
+            regardless of projection.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.05.2011 AST: updated to version 5.7-3</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.24.2011 REGIONS: fixed a problem with angs and PANDA,
+            EPANDA, and BPANDA and copy/paste in FK5. This is related to
+            the fuzzy math changes made earlier.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.25.2011 FITSY++: fixed a problem finding cols by name
+            in bin tables. Previous 'R' would be matched by 'RA'.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.28.2011 HV: remove
+            NED,SIMBAD,ADS,TDC,SKYVIEW,W3BROWSE from ANALYSIS:ARCHIVES
+            menu due to lack of support from sites.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.28.2011 COLORMAP: add colormap server to colormap
+            dialog</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.01.2011 PRINT COORDINATES: now uses default skyframe
+            and skyformat (as defined by WCS menu).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.04.2011 SCALE: add asinh() and sinh() scales.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.10.2011 CROP: add new crop commands.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.09.2011 AST: updated to version 6.0-1</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.09.2011 CROSSHAIR: fixed an issue with coordinates of
+            crosshair were .5 pixel off in Y.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.09.2011 GUI: fixed an issue with centerimage() was .5
+            pixel off in Y.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.15.2011 GRID: fixed an issue with text upside down.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.03.2012 BIN: fixed a problem with depth of a 3d bin'd
+            table.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.03.2012 GRID: DSS and Linear projections use AST.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.17.2012 3D: 3D Frame is now available.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.19.2012 ANALYSIS: added $z macro.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.19.2012 CROP: add [xmin:xmax,ymin:ymax,zmin:zmax]
+            syntax</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.19.2012 CROP: check for valid crop with [] syntax.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.23.2012 3D: add current slice highlite.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.23.2012 SAVEIMAGE: fixed a problem with frame
+            highlite during saveimage process.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.23.2012 ANALYSIS: expand $image macro to accept new
+            params: rgb and 3d.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.27.2012 ANALYSIS: expand $filename(full) to return
+            full filename (without cropping or filters parameters).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.27.2012 ANALYSIS: add macro $value.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.27.2012 CROP: fixed a problem when using an image
+            subsection spec for a datacube.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.28.2012 REGIONS: clean up rendering code for
+            X,ps,win32,macosx to reduce un-needed calls to set the
+            graphics context.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.28.2012 CROP: all data cubes can be cropped in 3D.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.28.2012 CROP: cropping in 3D will reset currentSlice
+            if needed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.28.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem if the region color
+            was an X11 valid color, some names would get mapped to the
+            incorrect color when printing.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.02.2012 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with SAO format
+            colormaps that have very long lines.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.03.2012 PRINT COORDINATES: added filename to options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.03.2012 WCS: if wcs parameters are changed or reset,
+            all open catalogs regions are updated. Normal regions are
+            not changed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.07.2012 COLORMAP: remove support for old RTD and ITT
+            colormaps</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.08.2012 GUI: consolidate MATCH and LOCK items into
+            submenus.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.08.2012 GUI: move match bin, match scale, and match
+            colorbar to frame match menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.16.2012 CUBE: fixed a proble with calculating the wcs
+            to image for axis 3.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.16.2012 FITSY++: changes required for gcc 4.7.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.16.2012 BLT: patched graph.tcl to use legendRelief
+            instead of labelRelief.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.16.2012 RGB: added lock wcs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.16.2012 FUNTOOLS: updated to version 1.4.5-2.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.21.2012 3D: fixed a problem with scale clip scope.
+            Should alway be in GLOBAL.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.29.2012 HEADER: add save header command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.01.2012 XPA: updated to version 2.1.14.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.01.2012 SCALE: MinMax mode AUTOSCAN set to SAMPLE if
+            width*height*depth &gt; 1e8.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.12.2012 IMGSVR: fixed a problem with clearing params
+            if no image was loaded previously.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.22.2012 REGION: add ellipse3d, box3d, polygon3d,
+            point3d regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.23.2012 IMGSVR: fixed a problem new frame option and
+            rgb.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.23.2012 BIN: check for valid col names for -bin col
+            command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2012 REGIONS: add Analysis support per region.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2012 REGIONS: add Analysis Plot3d support for
+            Circle,Ellipse,Box,Polygon,Point.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2012 REGIONS: add Analysis Plot2d support for
+            Projection,Line,Vector.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2012 REGIONS: Circle3d now converted to Circle.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2012 REGIONS: Plot3d saves native coordinate
+            values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2012 SCALE: simplified scale dialog controls to
+            allow user values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.29.2012 WCS: fixed a problem with numaxes &gt; 3
+            images and editing WCS params.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.09.2012 WCS: second attempt to handle non-equatorial
+            wcs. try to build a legal header from the wcssubs struct to
+            feed to ast.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.10.2012 SCALE: fixed an issue with autocut, ll != hh.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.10.2012 SKYVIEW: add WISE/COBE/WMAP to skyview survey
+            menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.10.2012 WCS: if CD matrix is all zero, use cdelt/pc
+            matrix.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.11.2012 SMOOTH: fixed a problem with images with
+            BSCALE/BZERO.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.11.2012 CATALOG: fixed a problem with d:m:s formated
+            DEC which started with a '+'</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.12.2012 CATALOG: fixed a problem with d:m:s to degree
+            conversion. Try to maintain higher precision.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.12.2012 CATALOG: add IAU location code to dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.13.2012 COLORMAP: add user contributed cmaps.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.18.2012 GUI: fixed a problem with long WCSNAME
+            values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.20.2012 FITSY++: added support for GZIP compresss
+            parameter ZQUANTIZ.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.23.2012 PS: fixed a bug with definiton of 32 bit
+            integers on 64 bit OS.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.23.2012 PREFS: add Text Dialog Font preferences menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.23.2012 LOCK: fixed a problem with lock frame and
+            mouse wheel events.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.24.2012 SKYBOT: Look for EXPTIME and add 1/2 to
+            DATE-OBS to get middle of observation.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.24.2012 LINUX64: add --hash-style=both to support old
+            and new GNU API for hash libs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2012 PHOTO: add support for other image formats.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2012 EXPORT: add support for exporting to other
+            image formats.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.30.2012 WCS: fixed a problem with TAN-SIP and wcs
+            append/replace.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.01.2012 TCL: check to see if packages msgcat and http
+            have already been found before sourcing during startup.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.03.2012 MPEG: fixed a problem with the bottom of an
+            image cut off.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.07.2012 COLORTAG: add color tags.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.10.2012 CROP: fixed a problem with backup and lock
+            crop.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.10.2012 SCALE: fixed a problem lock scale and crop.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.10.2012 BACKUP: fixed a problem with back and -slice,
+            -mosaic load options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.11.2012 REGIONS: add auto plot2d and plot3d prefs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.14.2012 GUI: add fits save.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.17.2012 MPEG: updated to ezMPEG v0.1</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.17.2012 AST: updated to 7.0.3</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.23.2012 WCS: is always displayed</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.23.2012 CATALOG: fixed a problem with the sign of
+            d:m:s conversion introduced on 04.12.2012.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.28.2012 MOVIE: minor tweaks on incr slice during
+            movie.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.28.2012 WIN32: fixed a problem with 3d fillImageJoin.
+            Statck overflow.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.29.2012 BACKUP: fixed active frames issue.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.30.2012 GUI: add threads command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.30.2012 GUI: fixed a problem with PASTE for entries.
+            Will now process unicode.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.31.2012 GRID: fixed a problem with parsing 6.1 and
+            6.2 backup save sets. New grid options parser implemented.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.31.2012 PLOT: fixed a problem in generating
+            postscript. Now just set plot size.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.31.2012 PLOT: fixed a postscript font issue with
+            helvetica.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.31.2012 PLOT: add axes format.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>06.06.2012 RELEASE version 7.0</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.12.2012 BACKUP: fixed a problem with processing
+            version 6.1 and 6.2 backup save sets.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>06.15.2012 RELEASE version 7.0.1</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.13.2012 3D: add border graphics.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.15.2012 TCLLIB: updated to version 1.14. This fixes a
+            problem with math::fuzzy::tlt.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.21.2012 REGION: fixed a problem with rotated images
+            and postscript printing of circle region.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.21.2012 IMGSRV: fixed a problem loading images from
+            dss/2mass/etc from the command line. Use the first frame if
+            not already loaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.21.2012 SLA: removed from build tree. not needed
+            since AST now has own version.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.21.2012 HELP: rm link to home page. hv can't handle
+            the new web site.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.22.2012 SKYBOT: added -filter=0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.22.2012 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a problem with rotated text
+            regions affecting other regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.22.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem selecting text
+            regions at high zoom.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.22.2012 WCS: add support for SAO Polynomial Plate.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.25.2012 GUI: improved error handling. Will now
+            properly handle a FATAL error msg from internal widgets.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.25.2012 GUI: non FATAL msgs can be supressed via
+            preferences.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.25.2012 FRAME: trap SIGBUS while scanning for
+            min/max.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.25.2012 WCS: use new version of AST:fitschan.c which
+            supports SAO polynomial plate solution and checks for the
+            case of all PV keywords=0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.25.2012 GUI: enable hidden directory button for linux
+            standard dialog box (windows only).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.25.2012 GUI: move About menu item to Help menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.27.2012 LOCK: fixed a problem with LOCK FRAME and the
+            current skyframe.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.27.2012 PANNER: fixed a problem where the wcs compass
+            was incorrectly set.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.29.2012 AST: updated to 7.0.5</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.02.2012 HTTP: set default timeout to 1 minute.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.03.2012 RELEASE version 7.0.2</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.05.2012 RGB: fixed a problem with -rgbimage and
+            extnames.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.05.2012 GCC: fixed a problem gcc 4.5 and Pixmap
+            typedef.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.06.2012 SCALE: fixed a problem with scale dialog and
+            very small numbers.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.10.2012 BIN: fixed a problem with very large FITS Bin
+            Tables.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.11.2012 FITSY++: fixed a number of problems with very
+            large (2Gb&gt;) FITS Image and Bin Tables.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.13.2012 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with dashs on the
+            display. Tk does not give us much flexibilty, so pick
+            something closer to the desired length.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.17.2012 CATALOG: add sdss r7 and sdss r8 to default
+            menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.17.2012 GRIDS: fixed a problem where each frame grid
+            remembers its own configuration.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.17.2012 FITSY++: fixed a number of problems with save
+            very large (2Gb&gt;) FITS Image and Bin Tables.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.23.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with PLOT3D and BOX,
+            ELLIPSE, POLYGON. At certain angles, incorrect counts were
+            calculated.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.27.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rendering
+            ELLIPSE PANDA X11 at angle=0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.30.2012 PRINT: fixed a problem with printing simple
+            text and catalog dialogs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.30.2012 REGIONS: add default length format to
+            preferences.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.30.2012 GUI: update infobox when moving between
+            frames.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.30.2012 BACKUP: don't save compressed image files if
+            not requested.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.02.2012 WCS: fixed a number of issues with the WCS
+            parameters dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.02.2012 WCS: added support for SIP and SCAMP keywords
+            to WCS parameters dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.06.2012 MAGNIFIER: be sure to update magnifier when
+            changing slice.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.09.2012 PLOT: fixed a problem reading muliple
+            datasets from one source.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.10.2012 AST: updated to version 7.0.6</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.13.2012 3D: add z axis scaling.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.13.2012 FITSY++: accept double quoted (invalid)
+            strings.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.21.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with -regions
+            centroid command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.05.2012 SMOOTH: add lock/match smooth.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.14.2012 PLOT: enhanced gui.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.14.2012 PLOT: add bar chart option.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.14.2012 PLOT: add scatter chart option.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.14.2012 REGIONS: add Analysis Statistics.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.14.2012 REGIONS: add Analysis Radial Profile.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.3.2012 CATALOG: add match option.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>10.15.2012 RELEASE version 7.1</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.18.2012 GUI: update File menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.02.2012 GUI: add support for NRRD file format.
+            Includes encodings: raw and gzip.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.05.2012 GUI: fixed a problem with cut/paste for
+            contours and catalogs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.27.2012 PLOT: fixed typo in range dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.27.2012 GUI: fixed a problem with clear analysis menu
+            item and the analysis menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.06.2012 SAMP: fixed a typo which disabled SAMP_HUB
+            functionality.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.06.2012 DS9: fixed a problem on how to align an image
+            with an odd size frame. In versions &lt;7.0, the floating
+            point number was rounded down. This has been re-implemented.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.11.2012 GPL: upgrade license to GPL v3.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.18.2012 COLORBAR: add support for SAO format GAMMA
+            param.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.18.2012 SAVEIMAGE: add support for EPS.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.20.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with updating
+            analysis plot x/y axis titles.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.21.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with analysis radial
+            profile and negative xaxis values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.21.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with writing
+            composited regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.21.2012 REGIONS: fixed a problem with list/save data
+            radial annulus.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.28.2012 RGB: add photo export.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.19.2013 FITSY++: fixed a problem parsing filters</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.19.2013 FITSY++: fixed a problem with incomplete
+            variable array TFORM descriptions, used in fits compression.
+            If no length is specified, set default to 8.<br>
+          </tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.29.2013 SAVE: save fits will now save an entire cube if loaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.30.2013 SAVE: add support for save mecube.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.31.2013 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with loading a set of contours with a specified color.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.13.2013 FITSY++: support new fits compression float/double gzip method.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.13.2013 FITSY++: ds9 now distinguishes between BLANK/NAN/INF values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.15.2013 REGIONS: no longer output filename in header.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.26.2013 FITSY++: use magic bytes to check for gz compressed files before load.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.28.2013 RGB: loading rgbimage, rgbcube, rgbarray into non-rgb frame will create new rgb frame for all command line, xpa, and samp commands.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.01.2013 FRAME: trap SIGBUS and SIGSEGV while scanning data.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.01.2013 FRAME: will only return error messages at levels info, warning, and error.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.10.2013 PREFS: fixed a problem with prefs zoom align.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.12.2013 BACKUP: check for sym links.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.14.2013 GUI: non-modal dialogs are now created at the center of the main ds9 window.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.25.2013 VO: default vo method is mime.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.25.2013 VO: if xpa method fails, default to mime.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.26.2013 XPA: add samp cmd to xpa.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.26.2013 SAMP: add xpa cmd to samp.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.01.2013 AST: updated to version 7.1.1</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.11.2013 CATALOG: fixed cut and paste.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.11.2013 WCS: SAO_PLT is now handled directly by AST.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.12.2013 PREFS: add dialog center option.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.12.2013 PLOT: all plots (user, analysis and catalogs) are now available to the plot command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>04.15.2013 RELEASE version 7.2</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.16.2013 AST: updated to version 7.2</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.16.2013 TCLLIB: updated to version 1.15</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2013 TCL: updated to version 8.6.0</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2013 TK: updated to version 8.6.0</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2013 ZVFS: updated to version 2</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.15.2013 CATALOGS: add AAVSO to cat list.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.17.2013 HV: add DASCHE to Archives list.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.03.2013 IRAF: fixed a problem with imexamine coords.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.04.2013 IRAF: save/export will save wcs values, not just the color number.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.05.2013 IRAF: colorbar displays wcs values.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.05.2013 IRAF: fixed a number of issues with tvmark colors.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.11.2013 FITSY++: implemented compressed FITS SUBTRACTIVE_DITHER_1 method.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.14.2013 ENVI: add support for import/export envi format.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.14.2013 AST: updated to version 7.3.1</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.18.2013 GUI: fixed a problem with blank headers being displayed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.18.2013 ARRAY: now accepts cropping info in filename.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.18.2013 NRRD: now accepts cropping info in filename.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.18.2013 ENVI: now accepts cropping info in filename.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.21.2013 PHOTO: fixed a problem with rounding average.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.24.2013 ZVFS: zvfs.c updated from freewrap 6.6</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.26.2013 SEGMENT: add new segment region.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.02.2013 ENVI: fixed a problem with calculating wcs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.02.2013 FITSY++: changes to allow 1D image.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.03.2013 GROUPS: fixed a problem allowing multiple selection of region groups.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.14.2013 WCS: Linear WCS now goes straight to AST.</tt></li>          <li><tt>09.10.2013 PSEUDOCOLOR: rm support for pseudocolor visuals.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.17.2013 REGIONS: PLOT3D dramatic improvements in speed of deep images and large regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.17.2013 GUI: set last file directory based on file type last loaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.18.2013 ENVI: minor change to hdr parser.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.18.2013 ENVI: fixed a major problem with swapbytes.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.18.2013 CATALOG: fixed a problem with selecting the correct region when arrow keys are used.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.19.2013 FITSY++: cleaned up code for dumping array,nrrd,envi in native endian.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.25.2013 AST: updated to version 7.3.2 to fix problem with SCAMP.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.25.2013 FITSY++: fixed a problem parsing filters in the command line.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.05.2013 3D: implement image cache.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.08.2013 3D: implement az and el background render.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.10.2013 COLORBAR: fixed a minor problem with specifing 'other color'.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.11.2013 REGIONS: add mouse click epsilon parameter.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.16.2013 CUBE: add lock slice wcs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.17.2013 REGIONS: fixed a problem with ds9 regions parser and parsing hex color specification.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.18.2013 XPA: fixed a problem with "file" and backward compatability.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.18.2013 ANALYSIS: add several checks to verify analysis file before try to parse.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.22.2013 GUI: fixed a problem with preserve PAN while loading.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.22.2013 SCALE: removed PRESERVE SCALE. This has been redundant since 7.0. Setting the scale limits does the same thing.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.22.2013 CONTOUR: fixed a problem if no system is specified and, the default is normally WCS, unless no WCS is defined, then default to PHYSICAL.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.28.2013 TCL/TK: update to version 8.6.1.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.31.2013 HTML: fixed issue causeing corrupt stack with new CLANG compilers.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.10.2013 FITS: improved error handling for malformed FITS tables.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.15.2013 CUBE: fixed a problem with lock slice wcs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.18.2013 CATALOG: add SDSS9 to optical menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.12.2013 WCS: add support for AST WCS def.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.28.2014 REGIONS: add auto statistics option.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.06.2014 AST: updated to version 7.3.4.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.21.2014 CATALOG: add 'Copy to Regions' from XPA/SAMP/commandline.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.26.2014 WCS: fixed a problem with wcs append/replace where the line length was 81 with newline.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.07.2014 FITSY++: expanded valid EXTNAME keywords to include '.', '-', and '_' chars.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.07.2014 FITSY++: save fits will convert BITPIX=-16 to BITPIX=32</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.09.2014 CATALOG: if sort col is of type real, but contains blank values, substitue a value of 0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.01.2014 BLT: completed upgrade to TkBLT 3.0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.28.2014 CATALOG: add UCAC4 to optical menu.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.01.2014 MACOSX: completed new 64bit Aqua port.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.06.2014 3D: don't wipeout the cache when generating a movie.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.15.2014 ENVI: try to determine data file name from header file name.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.30.2014 GUI: default mouse mode is NONE (not POINTER).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.30.2014 GUI: change mode POINTER to REGION.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>10.01.2014 RELEASE version 7.3</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 GUI: Fixed problems with Control-S and Control-Z accelerators.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 MACOSX: Removed accelerators for Print, PageSetup, and Find, as then invoke a known bug with Tk and dialogs.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 MACOSX: Fixed a problem with coordinate display dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 MACOSX: Fixed a problem with deleting colorbar tags.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 PREFS: Beta versions are now deemed to be of the same verison as the final release.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 PREFS: Fixed a problem processing a newer prefs file. Now wait to notify the user after the init phase has been completed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.03.2014 PREFS: some combinations of old prefs files were not being updated correctly.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.06.2014 FIRST: rename FIRST to VLA</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.06.2014 VLA: add STRIPE82 survey.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.06.2014 HV: fixed a problem with scrolling.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>10.07.2014 RELEASE version 7.3.1</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.08.2014 REGIONS: fixed a problem with parsing old regions file fonts.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>10.08.2014 RELEASE version 7.3.2</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.10.2014 IEXAM: imexam has been renamed iexam.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.15.2014 WCS: fixed a problem with imflip=1.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.15.2014 AST: updated to version 8.0.0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.20.2014 AST: updated to version 8.0.2.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.20.2014 HPX: updated compatiable wcslib-4.24.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.21.2014 CATALOG: add width property for symbols.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.22.2014 MACOSX: fixed a problem with mouse wheel zoom.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.22.2014 FITSY++: add support for SUBTRACTIVE_DITHER_2 keyword.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.22.2014 FITSY++: fixed a problem with native endian arrays. Unless specified, the array is assumed to be of the same endian-ness as the processor.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.14.2014 CUBE: fixed a problem with lock slice with no fits loaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.17.2014 TCL/TK: update to version 8.6.3.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.18.2014 MACOSX: preferences, fixed jumpy window size problem.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.19.2014 GUI: view horizontal/vertical now sets display size to default settings.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.03.2014 IIS: fixed a problem with open_unix().</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>12.29.2014 BLOCK: add support for blocking.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.04.2015 HPX: fixed a problem with cropping HPX images.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.05.2015 FITS++: Fits Compression- fixed a problem with uncompressed blocks.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.05.2015 FITS++: added support for 'Q' column arrays.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.17.2015 HV: Fixed a problem when url scheme is FTP and authority included username and passwd.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.18.2015 WCS: Fixed a problem when CDELTs and PCs keywords are used, but not in the orthodox way.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.11.2015 NRRD: Fixed a problem exporting built data cube.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.11.2015 ENVI: Fixed a problem exporting built data cube.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.24.2015 MOSAIC: mecube will now skip over tables and find all images.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.08.2015 FITS++: fixed a problem with compressed fits files and static memory size. now using alloc.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.13.2015 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with deleting the frame first, before closing a catalog dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.15.2015 CUBE: added support for reorder data cube axes.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.16.2015 SMOOTH: blank/NaN values are no longer replaced by 0, instead, NaN is used.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.17.2015 SMOOTH: is now threaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.21.2015 GUI: add UNITS keyword to infobox.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.23.2015 CUBE: reorder is now threaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.24.2015 IEXAM: add macro expansion string.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.27.2015 CHECKDNS: fixed a problem so that delay will activate on time (and will return promptly).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.29.2015 TCL/TK: update to version 8.6.4.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.30.2015 LAYOUT: add tile grid direction.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.30.2015 GUI: add user selected keyword to infobox.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.21.2015 SCALE: add lock/match scalelimits.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>05.29.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b1</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.09.2015 CATALOG: fixed a problem finding correct cols to parse. Original bug introduced after 7.3.2.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>06.09.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b2</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.15.2015 SCALE: scaling for data cubes now use clip scope (LOCAL/GLOBAL).</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.18.2015 SCALE: Default scope is now GLOBAL.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.18.2015 SCALE: MinMax mode AUTOSCAN has been deprecated.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.22.2015 GUI: fixed a font problem displaying greek symbols.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>06.22.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b3</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.29.2015 SKYVIEW: add survey and size options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.04.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b4</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.07.2015 VO: add additional code to use default url list if unable to download list.txt for any reason.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.14.2015 FITSY++: fixed a problem with RICE compression and 4 byte INT to FLOAT conversions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.15.2015 FITSY++: fixed a problem with GZIP lossless compression.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.15.2015 FITSY++: Add support for GZIP_2 FITS compression.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.20.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b5</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.23.2015 FITSY++: fixed a problem with SAVE FITS and writing NAXIS3=1 into the header.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.23.2015 FITSY++: added check for fits table in SAVE FITS TABLE.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.24.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b6</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.13.2015 REGIONS: fixed a problem with FITS CIAO PIE region.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.13.2015 REGIONS: fixed a problem with FITS CIAO ANNULUS region.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.13.2015 REGIONS: added support for FITS CIAO SECTOR and ELLIPTANNULS regions.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.16.2015 WCS: fixed a problem with reorder 3D cubes.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.25.2015 COLORBAR: added MathLab colormaps.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.25.2015 COLORBAR: added MatPlotLib colormaps.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.26.2015 COLORBAR: added H5utils colormaps.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.26.2015 COLORBAR: added GIST colormaps.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.26.2015 COLORBAR: added Topographic colormaps.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.28.2015 MOSAIC: fixed a problem introduced in 7.4b1 which failed to ignore generic tables in extensions when loading multiple extension fits.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.03.2015 PAN: fixed a problem with pan then zoom mode.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.17.2015 IIS: fixed a problem with imexam introduced in an earlier beta version.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.17.2015 IIS: fixed a problem with imexam when a former imexam frame has been delete.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.17.2015 MOSAIC: add IRAF DETSEC Align option.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>09.18.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b7</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.21.2015 WCS: Look for old RADECSYS keyword if present.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.22.2015 CROSSHAIR: add crosshair parameters dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.30.2015 TEMPLATES: fixed a problem with WCS introduced in an earlier beta version.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.02.2015 SMOOTH: smooth on load now threaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.02.2015 REGIONS: PLOT3D is disabled by default.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.13.2015 SAMP: fixed a issue with case of meta-data in xmlrpc.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.14.2015 GUI : fixed an issue where not all header options were offered in the case of compressed fits images.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.14.2015 BACKUP : fixed a problem when creating a backup with a file that has been compressed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.15.2015 SAMP: fixed a issue with results with empty elements.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.16.2015 LINUX: For all key press events, calculate the current cursor position, as Ubuntu and MacOSX Aqua returns bad x,y values. </tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.21.2015 CATALOG: fixed a problem where a catalog had a column of the same name as a variable. </tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.26.2015 GUI: fixed a problem remembering the previous filename loaded for standard dialogs. </tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.30.2015 SAMP: fixed a issue with incorrect body length in  xmlrpc messages.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.03.2015 3D: fixed a major issue introduced in the beta 7.4 series which caused a redraw everytime the current slice was changed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.03.2015 SCALE: Default scope is back to LOCAL.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.04.2015 CONTOUR: Fixed lots of issues with interaction with contours and bin/block/smooth.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>11.04.2015 SCALE: remove old AUTOSCAN and SAMPLE code.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>11.09.2015 FITS: fixed issues with data all NAN or INF.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>11.09.2015 CUBE: fixed issues with selecting current slice and updating other dialog boxes while in local mode.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>11.11.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b8</b></tt></li>
+	<li><tt>11.11.2015 FITS: fixed another issue when calculating MIN and MAX and one pixel images.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>11.17.2015 WCS: fixed problem with infobox/grid with xLN/xLT WCS.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>11.18.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b9</b></tt></li>
+	<li><tt>11.30.2015 CATALOG: update CDS catalog search parameters.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.02.2015 BACKUP: fixed a problem with backup save sets generated with beta versions.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.03.2015 PREFS: fixed a problem with prefs generated with beta versions.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.07.2015 WCS: fixed a problem with replacement WCS.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.08.2015 WCS: cubes now share WCS structures (very fast).</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.08.2015 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with $z macro.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>12.10.2015 RELEASE version 7.4b10</b></tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.11.2015 SAVEIMAGE: fixed a problem with the colorbar not updating when used with -exit.</tt></li>
+	<li><tt>12.17.2015 FITS: 3D displayed z coord off by .5.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>12.21.2015 RELEASE version 7.4</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.05.2016 XPA: update to version 2.1.17.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.05.2016 FUNTOOLS: update to version 2.1.6.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.21.2016 WCS: fixed a problem with PC3_3 being ignored.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.21.2016 WCS: add 3d axis params to WCS dialog.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>01.25.2016 MACOSX: fixed a problem init Tkblt.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.10.2016 MACOSX: fixed again the problem with font sizes and screen dpi.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>02.11.2016 WCS: fixed a problem with WCS replace and files without linefeed termination.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.07.2016 XPA: "tcl","source","print" commands only enabled for local.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.07.2016 XPA: new xpa command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.07.2016 GUI: "tcl" command enabled from commandline.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.07.2016 PREFS: for security reasons, will only look for the prefs file in the $HOME directory, and must be group/world readonly.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.07.2016 INIT FILE: will only look for any init file(s) in the $HOME, /usr/local/lib, /opt/local/lib directories.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.07.2016 INIT FILE: only read-only files will be sourced.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.08.2016 SAMP: new samp command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.08.2016 SAMP: new ds9.restricted-get command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.08.2016 SAMP: new ds9.restricted-set command.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.08.2016 HV: xpa-set is now in safe mode.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.18.2016 GUI: Hard code font size. Give up on trying to correct for screen resolution.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.18.2016 REGION: fixed title issue with radial plot.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.18.2016 REGION: fixed title issue with 2d plot.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.28.2016 FITSY++: cube update clip is now threaded.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.30.2016 GUI: cleaned up initialization and event loop code.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>03.30.2016 WCSSUBS: updated to version 3.9.0.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.01.2016 GUI: default number of threads is now detected based on OS.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.01.2016 WCS: fixed a problem with region templates, lengths were incorrect.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.05.2016 GUI: added coordinates of min/max to infobox.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.05.2016 GUI: limit dialog status lines to 80 chars, so the window will not expand off the screen.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.06.2016 WCS: use getWCSOrientation() instead of wcs->imflip for calcAlign and mapAngleTo/FromRef.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.14.2016 SCALE: fixed minmax mode SAMPLE.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.14.2016 CUBE: update histogram and histequ when changing current slice.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.20.2016 MINMAX: reimplemented "-minmax sample" commandline option for loading very large images..</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.21.2016 3D: fixed a problem with rendering the bbox when endpoints are way off screen. Now clip against frame.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.22.2016 3D: rendering speed improvements.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.26.2016 3D: panner images are now cached.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.27.2016 GUI: fixed a minor problem with header choice box and no filename given for xpaset stdin commands.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.27.2016 3D: dramatic improvements in render speed for certain data sets.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>04.27.2016 3D: fixed a problem with backup and 3D pan.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.04.2016 BIN: added keywords EQUINOX, MJD-OBS, and RADESYS if present.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>05.06.2016 RELEASE version 7.5b1</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.11.2016 SCALE: fixed a problem where histequ colorbar numerics displayed were incorrect.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.18.2016 GUI: fixed a very minor problem where catalog tools is invoked back to back via command line.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.19.2016 REGIONS: many important changes to Ciao Region parser to support current syntax. In particular, changes to BOX, ROTBOX, RECTANGLE. SECTOR, FIELD, and REGION are now no-ops.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.23.2016 TKCON: updated to version 2.7 proper.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.24.2016 PREFS: check file permissions and set accordingly.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.24.2016 PREFS: new prefs file directory implemented.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.07.2016 STARTUP: for security reasons, will only look for the startup file in the $HOME directory, and must be group/world readonly.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>05.31.2016 TKBLT: updated to version 3.1.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.01.2016 TKBLT: updated to version 3.1.1.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.20.2016 TKBLT: updated to version 3.1.2.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.20.2016 FITSY++: fixed a problem where BZERO/BSCALE was not applied to MIN/MAX for BITPIX=-32,-64.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.27.2016 REGIONS: default regions coordinate system is set to PHYSICAL if no WCS present.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>06.28.2016 3D: fixed yet another problem with rendering speed.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.01.2016 FITSY++: look for MJD_OBS if MJD-OBS is not present.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.05.2016 IMGSRV: simplify code.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.11.2016 IMGSRV: add support for VLSS.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.12.2016 SIA: simple image access protocal implemented.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.13.2016 RELEASE version 7.5b2</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.13.2016 SKYVIEW: updated survey options.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.14.2016 IIS: fixed segv issue.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.15.2016 RELEASE version 7.5b3</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.15.2016 TKBLT: upgrade to version 3.2.2.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.15.2016 GUI: fixed an issue with sourcing init files and 'global ds9'.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>07.15.2016 RELEASE version 7.5b4</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.21.2016 PRINT: scaling now implement without mods to Tk source code.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.21.2016 PRINT: give up on postscript scaling to screen resolution. Print resolution of 72 equals screen resolution.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.25.2016 TKHTML: updated to version 1.0.3, fixed an issues with corrupted screens under MacOSX.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.26.2016 TCL/TK: update to version 8.6.5.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.26.2016 BACKUP: fixed an issue with missing RGB channels.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.27.2016 TCLLIB: update to version 1.15.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>07.29.2016 PREFS: fixed a problem with name server.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.12.2016 REGIONS: Sky Coordinates are now formated for precision of 1/1000 of arcsec.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.16.2016 PLOT: fixed an issue with incorrect color for bar chart.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>08.18.2016 BIN: pass all keywords except manitory and reserved.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.02.2016 CONTOUR: new contour file format. DS9 can read/write the new contour file format while continue support for read the old contour file format.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.06.2016 CONTOUR: can read contour levels from new format while continue support for read and write old contour levels format.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.09.2016 REGION: fixed a problem where RULER was not using the default length format.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.14.2016 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a problem with PS level 3 images.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>09.16.2016 RELEASE version 7.5rc</b></tt></li>
+        <li><tt>09.16.2016 MACOSX: add NSHighResolutionCapable attribute to info.plist to support Retina displays.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.05.2016 REGION: fixed a problem when contour "Convert to Polygons" created polygon regions. Saving or listing the regions caused a Segv.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.05.2016 REGION: fixed a problem saving or listing regions in WCS when no WCS is defined for the FITS image. The regions file was corrupted.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt>10.05.2016 REGION: fixed a problem with Composite Regions not properly updating when created. The region was not displayed properly.</tt></li>
+        <li><tt><b>10.06.2016 RELEASE version 7.5rc2</b></tt></li>
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author	William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu>	2016-10-27 19:01:15 (GMT)
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