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-<TITLE>Funtools ChangeLog</TITLE>
-</HEAD>
-<BODY>
-<H2>Funtools ChangeLog</H2>
-
-<P>
-This ChangeLog covers both the Funtools library and the suite of
-applications. It will be updated as we continue to develop and improve
-Funtools. The up-to-date version can be found
-<A HREF="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/funtools/changelog.html">here</A>.
-[The changelog for the initial development of Funtools, covering the
-beta releases, can be found
-<A HREF="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/funtools/changelog_beta.html">here</A>.]
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.4.6 (internal ds9 release)</H2>
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Upgrade wcssubs to version 3.8.7
-<p>
-<li> Port to mingw (Windows)
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.4.5 (internal ds9 release)</H2>
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funim.c which broke vcol functionality.
-<p>
-<li> Removed permission checking from Find() on cygwin systems. This was broken
-by Windows 7.
-<p>
-<li> Removed addition of -no-cpp-precomp flag from gcc 4.2 and beyond.
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.4.4 (internal ds9 release)</H2>
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Fixed -J funcone, which was not properly outputting all rows.
-<p>
-<li> Filter: when an image is flipped, the rotation angle must be reversed.
-<p>
-<li> Filter: add support for windows-based ipc communication when using tcc
-compiler.
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.4.3 (internal ds9 release)</H2>
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Filter: improve checks for existence of compiler, even if CC is set.
-<p>
-<li> Change launch.h to xlaunch.h to avoid conflict with OS X.
-<p>
-<li> handle flipped images in filtering
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.4.2 (internal ds9 release)</H2>
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Port to gcc 4.2.
-<p>
-<li> Fix 1-byte filters on intel machines (missing SW1 no-op).
-<p>
-<li> Remove ambiguity from filt.l (and calc.l) using [A-z] in a
-case-insensitive lexer.
-<p>
-<li> In funsky, the default unit for RA was changed from hours to degrees.
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funtable in which TCRVL header values were output as strings.
-<p>
-<li> Added support for running funtools filters in Rosetta (i.e. running PPC
-executables on an Intel Mac) by sensing and handling data swap requirements.
-Only works with FILTER_PTYPE set to 'c' (can't link against wrong architecture
-libraries).
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in FITS library to allow "-" in extension names.
-<p>
-<li> Code and documentation now agree that the copy extension specifier ('+')
-comes after the extension name.
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.4.1 (internal ds9 release)</H2>
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Modified internal Launch() routine to use posix_spawn(), if necessary.
-This is required for OS X 10.5 (leopard), which frowns upon use of fork()
-and exec(). Also modified zprocess routines to use Launch().
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Public Release 1.4.0 (15 August 2007)</H2>
-
-<ul>
-<li> Public release of production-quality code, incorporating changes
-and improvements from previous beta releases, including:
-<ul>
-<li> Support for access to ASCII text column files.
-<li> Support for fast indexed access of binary tables.
-<li> Support for database views of tables, i.e. pre-set values for the filter
- specification, the columns to activate, and display format.
-<li> New programs include funcone (cone search), funindex (create index files),
- and funcen (calculate centroids within regions).
-</ul>
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Release 1.3.0b[n] (mainly internal SAO beta releases)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -F[c] switch to change the column delimiter to the
-specified character.
-
-<p>
-<li> Extended fundisp's format switch (-f) so that it can now handle complex
-formats such as 'x=sometext%3d- y=othertest%3d.ext'.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for creating and processing 1D FITS images.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added vcol=colname and vcol=/colname to filter specifications to
-support use of a third value column when binning 2D images.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added switches to funcone to write out data rows are not within
-any cone (-J, -X) and centers which have no close data rows (-L).
-
-<p>
-<li> In funjoin, added ability to specify a numeric tolerance for when joining
-two files.
-
-<p>
-<li> shared memory support in gio now can create a shared segment if w+ is
-specified as the open mode.
-
-<p>
-<li> Changed reggeometry man page so that examples correctly show angles
-going counter-clockwise from the x-axis instead of from the y-axis.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added checks to funmerge to ensure that all files have the same columns.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in text support that prevented header-less files from being
-processed properly.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for 64-bit images (bitpix=64) and table columns (TFORM=K).
-
-<p>
-<li> Filter code was not applying bscale/bzero to columns.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed funimage bug that caused a .5/block error in WCS CRPIX values
-generated from binary tables.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added feq(a,b) and div(a,b) macros to funcalc.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for single-line #define to funcalc.
-
-<p>
-<li> Updated wcs library to 3.6.6
-
-<p>
-<li> Fix bug in funcen in which ra,dec was not being calculated correctly
-if physical and image coords did not match up.
-
-<p>
-<li> The filter syntax "col1 = col2" now explicitly generates an error
-(you really want to do "col1 == col2").
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -o switch to include offset from the nominal target position.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fundisp now displays multi-dimensional vector columns properly.
-
-<p>
-<li> Documented support for lists of files processed as a single file
-using "list: file1 ... filen" syntax.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bugs in support for pipe file type (i.e. ability to pass
-commands as a filename using "pipe: cmd arg1 ... argn" syntax).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funhist processing of image-based pixel histograms
-(i.e using "xy" for columns) where a region was specified. All pixels
-outside the region were erroneously being added to the bin containing
-the 0 value.
-
-<p>
-<li> Disabled multi-file processing in funds9, which was breaking support
-for pathnames containing spaces and is not used by ds9 anyway.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for Views of tables, i.e. pre-set values for the
-filter specification, the columns to activate, and display format
-(though the latter is for fundisp only).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -l switch to funimage to read x, y, val columns from a list.
-
-<p>
-<li> Removed useless and meaningless section syntax foo'[*]' because it
-breaks pointer de-referencing on string columns (i.e. foo'[*xxx=='a']').
-Use foo'[*,*]' instead, as documented.
-
-<p>
-<li> String variables were not always being terminated properly in the
-filter code because FITS 'A' data is not necessarily null-terminated.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added funtools version number to all usage() displays.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added explanation of switch arguments to many usage() displays.
-
-<p>
-<li> The filter keyword row# now supports single row selection as well
-as range selection, i.e., "row#=100" along with previous "row#=100:200".
-
-<p>
-<li> fundisp now outputs "0x" before hex values.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in filter parser which processed rangelists incorrectly
-if spaces were put into the rangelist (i.e. "pha= 1 : 3" instead of
-pha=1:3).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in funindex which created a wrongly named index file
-if more than one "." was in the input file name.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support to funcone to take ra, dec, radius from a list
-(i.e. columns in a FITS file or a text file).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in FunColumnActivate so that if some columns are
-explicitly activated while others are de-activated, only the
-explicitly activated columns are activated (code was activating all
-columns in this case).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in funindex which prevented indexing tables containing
-a column named N.
-
-<p>
-<li> fundisp now encloses ASCII column values in single quotes (unless
--T is specified to output RDB format).
-
-<p>
-<li> If a filter specification only involves indexed columns, then the
-compiled filter is not used.
-
-<p>
-<li> Funmerge can now be given a list of files to merge using @list syntax.
-Also removed the restriction on how many files can be merged (was limited to
-the max number of open files).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added ability to edit (add, delete, modify) header parameters in funhead
-by specifying an output file (editing acts as a filter) and an edit command
-file (which can be stdin).
-
-<p>
-<li> Funtools now contains preliminary code to support (fast) indexed access
-of binary tables. See idx.html or "man funidx" for more details.
-
-<p>
-<li> Funtools now contains preliminary code supporting access to ASCII
-column files. See text.html or "man funtext" for more details.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funcalc in which columns used in an expression were
-always being replaced by new columns, with all associated parameters
-(e.g. WCS) were being deleted. Now this only happens if the column
-explicitly changes its data type.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funcalc in which the raw data and user data became out
-of sync for one row after every 8192 (FUN_MAXROW) rows.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in gio in which gseek returned 0 instead of the current byte
-offset for disk files.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added funcone program to perform cone search on RA, Dec columns in
-a FITS binary table.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in polygon, pie and rotated box region filtering for
-tables (nearby rows exactly in line between two non-vertical or
-non-horizontal vertices were being accepted incorrectly).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed pie and panda regions so that the angles now start from
-positive x axis == 0 degrees and run counter-clockwise, as
-documented. They were going from positive y. NB: a similar change
-was made to ds9 release 4.0b3. You must be using ds9 4.0b3 or later
-in order to have the correct behavior when generating regions in ds9
-and using them in funtools.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -p [prog] switch to funcalc to save the generated program.
-instead of executing (and deleting) it.
-
-<p>
-<li> Upgraded zlib to 1.2.3.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.2.4 (internal SAO and beta release only)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> In funcalc, added support for user-specified arguments via the
--a [argstr] switch. These arguments are accessed in the compiled program
-using the supplied ARGC and ARGV(n) macros.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -n (no header display) to fundisp to skip outputting header.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added checks for various types of blank filters.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added macros NROW (current row number) and WRITE_ROW (write current
-row to disk) to funcalc.
-
-<p>
-<li> funcalc no longer requires that at least one data column be
-specified in the compiled expression.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added FUN_NROWS to FunInfoGet() to return the total number of rows in
-an input table (i.e. value of NAXIS2).
-
-<p>
-<li> The compiled funcalc program now includes stdlib.h and unistd.h.
-
-<p>
-<li> The util/NaN.h header file is now modified at configure time to
-contain endian status for the target architecture. References to
-specific platforms have been removed.
-
-<P>
-<li> Added -m switch to funtable to output multiple files, one for
-each input region (and a separate file for events that pass the
-filters but are not in any region).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added ability to add new parameters (FunParamPutx) after writing
-data if space is previously reserved in the form of a blank parameter
-whose value is the name of the param to be updated. (Also requires the
-append argument of FunParamPutx be set to 2).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added ability to build shared libraries. With --enable-shared=yes,
-shared library is built but not used. With --enable-shared=link,
-shared library is linked against (requires proper installation and/or
-use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -v [column] support to funcnts so that counts in a table
-can be accumulated using values from a specified column (instead of
-the default case where an integral count is accumulated for each event
-in a region).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added funcen program to calculate centroids within regions
-(binary tables only). Also added support for a funcen-based centroid
-tool to funtools.ds9.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug which prevented successful filtering of columns containing
-arrays.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added filter check to ensure that a column is not incorrectly used
-as an array.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fundisp now displays column arrays indexed from 0, not 1.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -i [interval] support to funcnts so that multiple intervals
-can be processed in a single pass through the data. For example,
-specifying -i "pha=1:5;pha=6:10;pha=11:15" will generate results in
-each of 3 pha bands.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed calculation of LTV quantities when binning floating point
-column data (value was off by 0.5).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for 'D' in floating point header values.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -a switch to funimage and funtable to append output image or
-table to an existing FITS file (as an IMAGE or BINTABLE extension).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for column scaling (TSCAL and TZERO) on input columns.
-Note that the default column type is changed to accommodate scaling (e.g.
-a column of type 'I' is changed to 'J', 'J' is changed to 'D') so that
-the scaled values can be handled properly by programs such as fundisp
-(which utilize default types).
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support to FunColumnSelect() for handling structs of arrays
-(i.e. where returned columns are contiguous) instead of the default array
-of structs (returned row are contiguous). This is done by specifying
-"org=structofarrays" in the plist and passing a single struct containing
-the arrays.
-
-<p>
-<li> When writing an rdb/starbase file, fundisp now outputs the full
-column name, regardless of the width of the column (which ordinarily
-is truncated to match).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed support for large files by changing all file positions variables
-from "long" declarations to "off_t.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funcalc incorrectly processed multiple array
-references (e.g. cur->foo[0]=cur->x;cur->foo[1]=cur->y;) within a single
-line of code.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added FILTER_CFLAGS environment variable for all filtering. Also added
---with-filter-cc and --with-filter-cflags options on configure to allow
-specification of a default C compiler and associated CFLAGS for filtering.
-All of this is necessary in order to support 64-bit libraries under Solaris.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added the funtbl script to extract a table from Funtools ASCII output.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added code to funimage to update IRAF DATASEC keyword.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added checks to ensure that image dimensions are positive.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in funimage where int data was being scaled using BSCALE and
-BZERO but these keywords also were being retained in the output image header.
-Now the data are not scaled unless the output data type is float (in which
-case the scaling parameters are removed).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in funmerge which prevented merging of files unless one of
-the -f, -w, or -x switches were used.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in funtable and fundisp which caused the special '$n' column
-to be output incorrectly.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed sort option in funtable, which previously worked only if the
-record size was an even divisor of 8192 (and returned garbage otherwise).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in filters involving FITS data type 'X' (bitfield).
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funcnts in which the output angles and radii were
-being displayed incorrectly when multiple panda shapes were specified.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in pandas and pies using n= syntax when first angle
-specified was greater than second. The resulting mask was of
-the correct shape but contained only a single region.
-
-<p>
-<li> Table row access routines will now decrease maxrows if memory cannot be
-allocated for maxrows*sizeof(row), i.e. if the size of a row is so large that
-space for maxrows cannot be allocated.
-
-<p>
-<li> The FUN_MAXBUFSIZE environment variable was added to limit the
-max buffer size that will be allocated to hold table row data. The
-default is 5Mb.
-
-<p>
-<li> Generated PostScript and PDF versions of the help pages.
-
-<p>
-<li> Moved OPTIONS section before (often-lengthy) DESCRIPTION section in
-man pages.
-
-<p>
-<li> All memory allocation now does error checking on the result
-(except wcs library, which is external code).
-
-<p>
-<li> Removed some compiler warnings that surfaced when using gcc -O2.
-
-<p>
-<li> Updated wcs library to 3.5.5.
-
-<p>
-<li> Upgraded zlib to 1.2.1.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.2.3 (12 January 2004)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> Generated man pages from the html pages. These are installed
-automatically at build time.
-
-<p>
-<li> Changed instances of sprintf() to snprintf() to protect
-against buffer overflow.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a number of compiler warnings in non-ANSI compilers.
-
-<p>
-<li> Increased SZ_LINE parameter value from 1024 to 4096.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.2.3b1 (19 August 2003)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> The rule for using comma to separate a table filter expression
-and a region expression has been changed. The rule now states:
-<ul>
-<LI> if both expressions contain a region, the operator used is <B>or</B>.
-<LI> if one (or both) expression(s) does not contain a region, the operator
-used is <B>and</B>.
-</ul>
-This rule handles the cases of pure regions and pure column filters properly.
-It unambiguously assigns the boolean <B>and</B> to all mixed cases. Thus:
-<PRE>
- foo.fits[circle(10,10,3),pi=1:5]
-</PRE>
-and
-<PRE>
- foo.fits[pi=1:5,circle(10,10,3)]
-</PRE>
-both are equivalent to:
-<PRE>
- foo.fits[circle(10,10,3) && pi=1:5]
-</PRE>
-
-<p>
-<li> When include files are used in filters, they now have implied
-parentheses surrounding them. Thus, if a region file foo.reg contains two
-regions (e.g. circle 1 2 3 and circle 4 5 6), the syntax:
-<pre>
- pha=4:5&&@foo.reg
-</pre>
-is equivalent to:
-<pre>
- pha=4:5 && (circle 1 2 3 || cir 4 5 6)
-</pre>
-instead of:
-<pre>
- pha=4:5 && circle 1 2 3 || cir 4 5 6
-</pre>
-and the pha filter is applied to both regions.
-
-<p>
-<li> Filters and comments now can be terminated with the string
-literal "\n" as well as ";" and the new-line character. This means
-that a region can have comments embedded in it:
-<pre>
- funcnts foo.fits "circle 512 512 10 # color=red\n circle 512 512 20"
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-<li> Added capability to update the value of an existing parameter
-after writing the table or image (assuming the output image is a
-disk file or is being redirected into a file).
-
-<p>
-<li> Improved handling of parentheses in filter expressions.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in image (not event) regions in which circles and
-annuli with radius of 1 pixel were not being processed. No counts and
-no area would be found in such regions.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed a bug in funcnts in which the radii column values for out of sync
-if multiple annuli were specified (instead of a single varargs or accel
-annulus).
-
-<p>
-<li> By default, fundisp will display integer image data as floats
-if the BSCALE and BZERO header parameters are present.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added -L switch to funhead to output starbase list format.
-
-<p>
-<li> Changed the name of the routine _FunColumnSelect to
-FunColumnSelectArr, in order to emphasize that it is not
-a private routine.
-
-<p>
-<li> Funcalc now checks to ensure that a column was specified as part of
-the expression.
-
-<p>
-<li> Funcalc local variables in the compiled program now use a "__" prefix
-to avoid conflicts with user-defined variables.
-
-<p>
-<li> Unofficial unsigned short (bitpix=-16) image data now is scaled
-correctly using BSCALE and BZERO header parameters.
-
-<p>
-<li> Ported to Intel icc and gcc 3.3 compilers.
-
-<p>
-<li> Updated wcs library to 3.5.1.
-
-<p>
-<li> Changed license from public domain to GNU GPL.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.2.2 (18 May 2003)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed funcalc so that it now actually compiles an expression and
-runs it, instead of getting a "filter compilation error". Oops!
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in FunOpen in which the bracket specification was being
-removed from the filename if a disk file was opened for "w" or "a".
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in FunFlush which prevented two successive calls to
-FunImagePut from writing the second extension header properly.
-
-<p>
-<li> All filter routines now use gerror(stderr, ...) call instead of
-fprintf(stderr, ...) so that output to stderr can be turned off (via
-setgerror(level) or GERROR environment variable).
-
-<p>
-<li> All standard Funtools programs check for GERROR environment
-variable before setting gerror flag.
-
-<p>
-<li> Some error messages about invalid region arguments were not being
-printed.
-
-<p>
-<li> FITS parameters/headers now conform more closely to FITS standard:
-<ul>
-<li> Blank keywords are treated in the same way as COMMENTS and HISTORY cards
-<li> XTENSION keywords are now exactly 8 characters long
-<li> 'E' is output instead of 'e' in floating point param values
-<li> PCOUNT and GCOUNT are output correctly for image extensions
-<li> EXTEND=T is output in primary header
-<li> COMMENTS and HISTORY start in column 9
-</ul>
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Patch Release 1.2.1 (24 April 2003)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> Varargs ellipse and box annular regions were being
-processed incorrectly when the following conditions all were met:
-<ul>
-<li> the region was specified in physical or wcs coordinates
-<li> the data file contained LTM/LTV keywords, i.e., it
-was blocked with respect to the original data file
-<li> the program being run was an image program (e.g. funcnts, funimage)
-</ul>
-Varargs ellipse and boxes are regions of the form:
-<pre>
- ellipse x y a1 b1 a2 b2 ... an bn [angle]
- box x y l1 w1 l2 w2 ... ln wn [angle]
-</pre>
-where at least 2 sets of axis (length) values were specified to form
-an annulus (i.e. simple ellipses and boxes worked properly). With all
-of the above conditions met, a region in physical coordinates saw its
-second length argument converted incorrectly from physical coordinates
-to image coordinates. In simple terms, this means that funcnts did not
-process elliptical or box regions in physical coords on blocked images
-properly. Note that blocking on the command line (e.g. foo.fits[*,*,2])
-did work when no LTM/LTV keywords existed in the file.
-
-<p>
-<li> The fundisp -f switch now supports specification of
-column-specific display formats as well as a more convenient way to
-specify datatype-specific display formats. Both use keyword=value
-specifiers. For columns, use:
-<pre>
- fundisp -f "colname1=format1 colname2=format2 ..." ...
-</pre>
-e.g.
-<pre>
- fundisp -f "time=%13.2f pha=%3d" ...
-</pre>
-You also can specify display formats for individual datatypes using the FITS
-binary table TFORM variables as the keywords:
-<pre>
- fundisp -f "D=double_format E=float_format J=int_format etc."
-</pre>
-e.g.
-<pre>
- fundisp -f "D=%13.2f I=%3d" ...
-</pre>
-The old position-dependent syntax is deprecated.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fundisp will now print out a single 16-bit (or 32-bit) unsigned
-int for a column whose data format is 16X (or 32X), instead of
-printing 2 (or 4) unsigned chars.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in which fundisp was not able to display bitfield data for
-raw event lists.
-
-<p>
-<li> Previously, when binning columns used implicitly in a region
-and explicitly in a filter could suffer from a case sensitivity problem.
-This has been fixed.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed internal mask=all switch on fundisp.
-
-<p>
-<li> Filter include files now simply include text without changing the state
-of the filter. They therefore can be used in expression. That is, if foo1
-contains "pi==1" and foo2 contains "pha==2" then the following expressions
-are equivalent:
-<pre>
- "[@foo1&&@foo2]" is equivalent to "[pi==1&&pha==2]"
- "[pha==1||@foo2]" is equivalent to "[pi==1||pha==2]"
- "[@foo1,@foo2]" is equivalent to "[pi==1,pha==2]"
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in filter specification which caused a SEGV if a varargs-style
-region was enclosed in parens.
-
-<p>
-<li> Updated wcs library to 3.3.2.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Public Release 1.2.0 (24 March 2003)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> BSCALE and BZERO are now always applied to int pixel data, instead of
-only being applied if the desired output is floating point.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.2.b3 (4 February 2003)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> In FunColumnSelect, added the ability to specify an offset into
-an array in the type specification, using the extended syntax:
-<PRE>
- [@][n]&lt;type&gt[[poff]][:[tlmin[:tlmax[:binsiz]]]]
-</PRE>
-The [poff] string specifies the offset. For example, a type specification
-such as "@I[2]" specifies the third (i.e., starting from 0) element in
-the array pointed to by the pointer value. A value of "@2I[4]" specifies
-the fifth and sixth values in the array.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added a non-varargs version of FunColumnSelect called _FunColumnSelect:
-<pre>
-int _FunColumnSelect(Fun fun, int size, char *plist,
- char **names, char **types, char **modes, int *offsets,
- int nargs);
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for sorting binary tables by column name using:
-funtable -s "col1 col2 ... coln" ...
-
-<p>
-<li> Added the FUN_RAW macro which, when applied to the "name" parameter
-of FunParamGets(), returns the 80-character raw FITS card instead of
-only the value.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for comparing column values with binary masks of the
-form 0b[01]+, e.g.:
-<pre>
- (status&0b111)==0b001
-</pre>
-Previously, such masks had to be specified in decimal, octal, or hex.
-
-<p>
-<li> Completed support for type 'L' (logical) in fundisp and in filtering of
-binary tables.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in funhist that was improperly setting the number of bins
-when the data was of type float.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug in filter/Makefile where the filter OBJPATH #define was
-being passed to the wrong module.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.2.b2 (7 October 2002)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> Updated wcs library to 3.1.3.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for reading gzip'ed files via stdin.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.2.b1 (24 September 2002)</H2>
-<ul>
-
-<p>
-<li> Added the following accelerators to region filtering:
-<pre>
- shape: arguments:
- ----- ---------
- BOX xcenter ycenter xw1 yh1 xw2 yh2 ... xwn yhn (angle)
- BOX xcenter ycenter xwlo yhin xwout yhhi n=[number] (angle)
- CIRCLE xcenter ycenter r1 r2 ... rn # same as annulus
- CIRCLE xcenter ycenter rinner router n=[number] # same as annulus
- ELLIPSE xcenter ycenter xw1 yh1 xw2 yh2 ... xwn yhn (angle)
- ELLIPSE xcenter ycenter xwlo yhin xwout yhhi n=[number] (angle)
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-<li> Added the following new pandas (Pie AND Annulus) to region filtering:
-<pre>
- shape: arguments:
- ----- ---------
- CPANDA xcen ycen ang1 ang2 nang irad orad nrad # same as panda
- BPANDA xcen ycen ang1 ang2 nang ixlo iylo ixhi iyhi nrad (ang) # box
- EPANDA xcen ycen ang1 ang2 nang ixlo iylo ixhi iyhi nrad (ang) # ellipse
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-<li> Added support for filtering images using simple FITS image masks,
-i.e. 8-bit or 16-bit FITS images where the value of a pixel is the
-region id number for that pixel (and therefore must be greater than
-0). The image section being filtered must either be the same size as the
-mask dimensions or else be an even multiple of the mask. This works with
-image-style filtering, i.e., funcnts can utilize a mask on both
-images and binary tables.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added '$n' to fundisp column specification to allow display of
-ordinal value of each row passing the filter.
-
-<p>
-<li> Added code to support region filtering on image sections.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bugs which prevented filtering more than one ASCII region file.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bug occasionally causing filter slave processes to become zombies.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed bugs in event filtering: annulus with inner radius of 0
-(i.e., a circle) was rejecting events with coordinates xcen, ycen.
-Also, pie with angles of 0 and 360 was rejecting some events.
-Image filtering (e.g. funcnts) did not have these problems.
-
-<p>
-<li> Filters now accept global exclude regions without an include region.
-In such a case, the field region is implied. That is, "-circle(x,y,r)"
-is equivalent to "field; -circle(x,y,r)", etc.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed panda so that it can be used as a global exclude.
-
-<p>
-<li> Allow empty ds9 region file (comments and globals only) to be
-a valid filter. Totally ignore zero length region or include file.
-
-<p>
-<li> Fixed funcnts bug that was displaying 0 value as inner radius of
-a circle, instead of just one radius value.
-
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Public Release 1.1.0 (22 April 2002)</H2>
-
-<p>
-New features include:
-<ul>
-<p>
-<li> Funtools programs now accept gzip'ed files as valid input.
-
-<p>
-<li> Improved security via replacement of system() function.
-
-<p>
-<li> fundisp, funcnts, funhist can output starbase/rdb format (tabs between columns, form-feeds between tables).
-
-<p>
-<li> Improved support for Windows platform, as well as new support for Mac OSX.
-</ul>
-
-<H2> Pre-Release 1.1.0e (10 April 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added enough support to skip over variable length arrays in BINTABLES.
-We will add full support if this non-standard construct becomes more widely
-used.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed bug in underlying fitsy _gread() routine that was returning
-an arbitrary bytes-read value if the input fd was invalid.
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Pre-Release 1.1.0e (19 March 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added additional check for Windows/PC to filter/Nan.h.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Upgraded zlib library to 1.1.4 (fix double free security hole).
-
-</UL>
-
-
-<H2> Pre-Release 1.1.0e (27 February 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Changed filter/process.[ch] to filter/zprocess.[ch] to avoid name
-collision with Cygwin include file.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added -a switch to funhead to display all headers in a FITS file.
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Pre-Release 1.1.0e (11 February 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed filter parser so that it ignores ds9 "ruler" and "text" markers
-only up to the first \n or ; (was ignoring to last \n).
-
-<P>
-<LI> The NBLOCK parameter in fitsy/headdata.c was too large for Mac OS X
-(max size of a declared char buf seems to be about .5 Mb).
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.0.1b5 (31 January 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed bug introduced in calculated IRAF LTM values in 1.0.1b3.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed bug in filter parser giving wrong answers when two range
-lists were combined with and explicit boolean operator:
-<PRE>
- $ fundisp $S"[x=512&&y=511,512]"
-</PRE>
-incorrectly acted like:
-<PRE>
- fundisp $S"[(x=512&&y=511)||(y=512)]"
-</PRE>
-instead of:
-<PRE>
- fundisp $S"[x=512&&(y=511||y=512)]"
-</PRE>
-In general, we recommend use of explicit parentheses.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed filter/NaN.h to recognize Compaq Alpha again (broken by their last change to cc).
-
-<P>
-<LI> Removed redundant varargs definitions that conflicted with Alpha compiler definitions.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added blank line to inc.sed to work around Apple Mac OS X bug in which the
-"i" (insert) command was treating final \\ as continuation \ in the text.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added include of mkrtemp.h to mkrtemp.c to get conditional compilation
-for Mac OSX.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added support for --with-zlib to fitsy so that ds9 could use its own
-copy of zlib (and not build the copy in fitsy).
-
-<P>
-<LI> Removed config.cache and Makefile files from distribution tar file.
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.0.1b4 (26 January 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Make explicit that column filters are not permitted in an image
-expression (such as the funcnts region arguments).
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fix bug in region parser in which a region (without parens),
-followed immediately by an operator:
-<PRE>
- circle 512 512 .5&&pi==1
-</PRE>
-was not processing the final argument of the region correctly.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Ignore new "tile" directive in filters (used by ds9).
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.0.1b3 (4 January 2002)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Made modifications to Makefile.in to make releases easier.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added instructions Makefile.in so that funtools.h will always
-have correct #defines for FUN_VERSION, FUN_MAJOR_VERSION,
-FUN_MINOR_VERSION, and FUN_PATCH_LEVEL.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Allow #include statements in funcalc program files.
-
-<P>
-<LI> funimage now updates all 4 CDX_Y values by the block factor.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Minor changes to make funtools work under darwin (Mac OS X).
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.0.1b2 (14 November 2001)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed FunOpen() bug (introduced in b1) in which filenames without
-extensions SEGV'ed on open. Yikes!
-
-<P>
-<LI> Funmerge now extends the tlmin/tlmax values of the output
-binning columns so that merged events from widely separated files are
-valid in the output table.
-
-<P>
-<LI> In funhist, added -w switch to specify bin width (lo:hi:width)
-instead of number of bins (lo:hi:num). Added support for this new
-width option in funtools.ds9.
-
-<P>
-<LI> If a tdbin value was set using bincols=(name:tlmin:tlmax:tdbin, ...),
-the WCS parameters were not being updated properly.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Cleaned up build support for zlib.
-
-</UL>
-
-<H2> Beta Release 1.0.1b1 (6 November 2001)</H2>
-<UL>
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added support for gzip'ed files to the underlying fitsy/gio
-library. This means that all funtools programs now accept gzip'ed
-files as valid input:
-<PRE>
- funcnts foo.fits.gz "circle 504 512 10"
-</PRE>
-It is no longer necessary to run gunzip and pipe the results to
-stdin of a funtools program.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Funtools tasks are now placed in a sub-menu in the DS9 Analysis
-menu, instead of at the top level.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed a bug in funcnts in which the bottom-most pixel of a small
-circle or annulus region could be missed when the region is only one
-pixel wide for that value of y.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added -n switch to funhist so that table histograms could be
-normalized by the width of the bin (val/(hi_edge-lo_edge)).
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added -T switch to fundisp, funcnts, funhist to output in
-starbase/rdb format (uses tabs instead of spaces between columns,
-form-feeds between tables, etc.)
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed a bug in which the field() region was not being properly
-processed in combination with an image section. This could affect
-funcnts processing of image data where an image section was specified
-(though it usually resulted in a funcnts error).
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed bug in display of binary table header for vector columns.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Filters now recognize hex constants (starting with 0x) and long
-constants (ending with L).
-
-<P>
-<LI>Filenames containing a ':' are now only treated as sockets if they
-actually are in the form of a valid ip:port.
-
-<P>
-<LI>Replaced funtools.ds9 with a new version that calls a new funds9
-script, instead of calling funcnts or funhist directly. The new script
-supports gzip'ed files and bracket specifications on filenames at the
-same time, which the direct call could not. Also the new script has
-better error reporting.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Replaced system() call used to compile filter and funcalc
-expression with a special launch() call, which performs execvp()
-directly without going through sh. (launch() works under DOS and has
-fewer security problems.)
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed image filter code in which the field() region was being ignored
-if it was combined with one or more exclude regions (and no other include
-regions), resulting in no valid pixels.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Changed use of getdtable() to FD_SETSIZE in calls to select().
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added code to guard against FITS binary tables without proper TFORMx
-parameters.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Added support to FunParamGets so that it returns the raw FITS card
-if the specified input name is NULL and the input n value is positive.
-
-<P>
-<LI> Fixed bug in underlying fitsy code that set the comment in a
-header parameter.
-
-</UL>
-
-
-<H2> Public Release 1.0.0 (31 July 2001)</H2>
-<UL>
-<P>
-<LI> "a new day with no mistakes ... yet"
-</UL>
-
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