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    README_TEXT.TXT file for CONTOUR Archive Volume                           
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####### File _README_TEXT.TXT_                                                
                                                                              
                                                              December 2001   
This directory contains documentation for the procedures in the               
IDL Astronomy Library.                                                        
                                                                              
*.readme  -- these files duplicate the README files in individual             
subdirectories                                                                
          in the IDL Astronomy Library, and give a brief description of the   
          procedures in the directory.   For example, astrom.readme describes 
          the IDL procedure dealing with astrometry.                          
                                                                              
daophot.tex -- A LaTeX file describing an early (1987) adaptation of the      
         DAOPHOT FORTRAN photometry package into IDL and available in /daophot
                                                                              
database.tex -- A LaTeX file describing how to use the IDL database software  
         available in the /database directory.                                
                                                                              
ft.tex  - A LaTeX file describing how to use the FT* and TB* IDL procedures   
         in the /fits_table directory along with READFITS/WRITEFITS to        
         read and write FITS ASCII tables and read FITS binary tables.        
                                                                              
fits_bintable.tex  - A LaTeX file written by Bill Thompson (ARC/Goddard)      
         describing how to use the FITS binary table package in               
/fits_bintable.                                                               
                                                                              
midas_table.txt - An old (1989) text file written by F. Murtagh (ST-ECF)      
          describing how to use the MID* procedure in /disk_io to read and    
          update MIDAS .BDF and .TBL data structures.                         
                                                                              
mrdfits.txt - A text file describing the use of the large program MRDFITS.PRO 
          in the /fits directory.   This program will directly map a FITS     
table                                                                         
          into an IDL structure.                                              
                                                                              
idl_stsdas.tex --  a LaTeX file describing how to manipulate STSDAS           
          images and tables using IDL procedures in the /sdas and /sdas_table 
          directories.   The file is taken from Chapter 10 of the             
          Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) manual, written by      
          J. Blackwell, S.N. Shore, R.D. Robinson, K. Feggans, D. Lindler,    
          E. Malamuth, J. Sandoval, and T.B. Ake.     It is also available    
          via anonymous FTP from ftp://hrssun.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/ghrsdaf/docs  
          as the file swq-v2_1-sec10.ps.