The notes and documentation below cover miscellaneous information, used by StarCat but not part of that application.

catlib is a star catalog manipulation library.
cat_build constructs the catalogs from their source file(s).
cat_show displays contents of a catalog.
cat_sort_inx is for sorting a catalog by index.
cat_sort_ra is for sorting a catalog by RA.

Compiling Sources and Building the Catalogs:

• run get_starcat to copy the current binaries and source code to your home directory.
• Binaries:
  • Building and processing catalogs are compiled in <home>/starcat/utility
  • Starcat itself is compiled in <home>/starcat/dev/starcat
  • Mylib is in <home>/mylib
• Sources:
  • Sources for processing and building catalogs are in <home>/src/starcat/dev/utility
  • Sources for starcat itself are in <home>/src/starcat/starcat
  • Sources for mylib (catlib, slalib, etc) are in <home>/src/mylib
• You may have to recompile the mylib sources, which is done in <home>/mylib.
• cat_build: the main program for building the catalogs.
  • Required: "-c CATALOG" would build the catalog using the defaults defined in catlib.h
  • Optional: "-i CUSTOM_INPUT" would build the catalog using CUSTOM_INPUT as the input file. Use this for compiling custom catalogs.
  • Optional: "-o CUSTOM_OUTPUT" would build the catalog using CUSTOM_OUTPUT as the output file. Use this for compiling custom catalogs.
• cat_show: basic text output of a catalog

This page is maintained by Anthony Denault and was last modified on Wednesday, October 25th, 2001 .