Revision history

1. 23rd June 1994: Original draft (ACD).

2. 9th October 1995: Version 1 (ACD).

3. 12th April 1996: Version 2. Modified so that the Latex source could be used to create an HTML as well as a paper version (ACD).

4. 23rd January 1997: Version 3. Modified for release 3.1 of the CAT library. The major change was the addition of support for the Small Text List (STL) catalogue format (ACD).

5. 12th June 1997: Version 4. Modified for release 4.1 of the CAT library. There are no major enhancements in this release, just some bug fixes. Perhaps the most important of these is the ability to handle catalogue file names longer than fifteen characters (ACD).

6. 9th November 1997: Version 5. Modified for release 4.2 of the CAT library. There are no major enhancements in this release, just a couple of bug fixes and some minor revisions to the document (ACD).

7. 11th June 1998: Version 6. Modified for release 5.1 of the CAT library. There were major internal changes to the CAT library in order to speed it up and to reclaim internal work-space for reuse when a catalogue is closed. Most of these changes should not be visible to the user (except that the library should be somewhat faster). One visible change is that the capitalisation of the file type specified by the user when a new catalogue is opened is now preserved. One new routine has been added: CAT_IINQ (ACD).

8. 26th November 1998: Version 7. Modified for release 6.1 of the CAT library. The major enhancement to the library in this release was additional features for reading sexagesimal angles from STL format catalogues. Rather than document these features here the entire description of the STL format was removed. The STL format is now documented solely in the CURSA manual, SUN/190. This rationalisation removes a duplication which was becoming increasingly cumbersome. Release 6.1 also includes some further improvements to the error reporting (ACD).

9. 15th November 1999: Version 8. Modified for release 7.1 of the CAT library. The major change was the addition of support for the Tab-Separated Table (TST) catalogue format. All references to the VAX/VMS version of CAT were removed from the manual (ACD).

10. 16th July 2000: Version 9. Modified for release 7.2 of the CAT library. There are no major enhancements in this release, just some bug fixes and minor changes, most notably to the implementation of the Tab-Separated Table (TST) format. There are also some minor revisions to the document (ACD).

11. 4th April 2001: Version 10. Modified for release 8.1 of the CAT library. Support for the CHI/HDS catalogue format has been removed from this version of the library. There are also a few bug fixes and some minor revisions to the document (ACD).

CAT
Catalogue and Table Manipulation Library



Version 8.1