iraf 2.16 does not understand VO tables from ds9

rji · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 87

Small example:

fitz · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject:

I'm not quite sure how it is you produced the ds9.xml file, would you mind either emailing it to me directly or putting it in the anonftp at ftp://iraf.noao.edu ? Thanks.

rji · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 87

OK, in DS9:

fitz · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:10 pm Post subject:

Looking at the problem now ....

fitz · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:17 pm Post subject:

The problem is that the votable uses 'unsignedByte' as a FIELD type and this isn't recognized in the FITS conversion code. This is one of those bug fixes that would update all the binaries (which I'll do for the next general update), if you'd like a simple update to the NTTOOLS and VO package binaries then please just let me know what platform you're on and I'll put them in the support directory.

rji · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 87

IRAF installed today still does not read the ds9's xml:

fitz · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject:

You're probably still using the (corrupted) cache file from earlier, try doing a

rji · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 87

How to explain this (v2.16):

fitz · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

The STSDAS/TABLES packages from STScI are linked against v2.14 and so are 32-bit only and don't understand the new VOTables and such. If you don't explicitly load TABLES, you use the NTTOOLS version of TABLES.TTOOLS that is a fully integrated part of v2.16 (i.e. 64-bit and VO support).

You can always do a "cl> which tinfo" to find out which version will be used or just explicitly load NTTOOLS is there is some chance for confusion.