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INSTRUCTIONS

To build the NED client package on a UNIX system,
simply use the 'make' utility with the Makefile appropriate for 
your flavor of UNIX. Here we'll assume you are working on a Linux system:

make -f Makefile.linux

This compiles the following sample executables:

byname, name_resolver, nearposn, iau, nearname, ref, and ex_refcode.

Read the Users Guide documentation in the file NED_client.


To submit comments or questions send email to ned@ipac.caltech.edu.
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PACKAGE CONTENT

NED_client: The Users Guide documententation

Makefile.solaris: Makefile for Solaris systems
Makefile.linux:   Makefile for Linux systems
Makefile.bsd:     Makefile for BSD UNIX systems

New_functions:
	    simple introduction of the new functions in this release.

ned_cli.c
ned_cif.c
ned_err.c
ned_sk.c
ned_client.h 
nedc.h       : The source codes for client library libcli.a

Command line programs (by Doug Mink, SAO)
nedname.c returns a name and other optional info given sky position
nedpos.c  returns sky position and other optional info given a name

byname.c
name_resolver.c
nearposn.c
iau.c
nearname.c   
ref.c
ex_refcode.c  : sample codes

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HISTORY:

4) -Command line programs nedname and nedpos written for use in scripts
    using WCSTools library for coordinate and string conversions
    Doug Mink, SAO, 23-August-2004

3) -The port from Solaris to Linux (RH7.x) required different handling
    of double precision values in function ned_getdouble(d);
    see lines 151-153 of ned_cli.c. Joe Mazzarella, 04-Sep-2001

2) -Revisions for compilation on modern Linux OS (Redhat 7.0): 
    Use of fgets() rather than gets(), declaration of atoi(), 
    new Makefile.linux, etc. 
    compile via 'make -f Makefile.linux'
   -Fixed bug in ned_disconnect() being commented out in byname.c.
   -Fixed bug in ex_refcode.c: strlen(refcode) != 20 rather than 19
    Joe Mazzarella, IPAC, 23-Jul-2001

1) -Original package written by Xiuqin Wu, IPAC, 1994-1996

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