From thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov Tue Nov 18 16:45:10 2003
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:46:25 -0400
From: thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov
Reply-To: sumer-soft@esa.nascom.nasa.gov
To: sumer-soft@esa.nascom.nasa.gov
Cc: thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: SUMER-SOFT: using sumer restore files 


It sounds like the problem has to do with how the SUMER software is
distributed.  If it is distributed as part of the SSW tree, the routine
obt2tai.pro should automatically be part of the tree, in the directory

	$SSW/soho/gen/idl/plan/science

On the SUMER computers in the EOF, this routine is found in the directory

	PLROOT:[SUMER_PLAN.TIME]

but I'm not sure what the mechanism is for people copying over software from
the SUMER computers directly.

I would hope that any set of software that works with save files would also
work directly off of the FITS files.  Only the FITS files can truly be
considered to be an archival format, and should be the primary data format for
future software development.  Save files are subject to future format changes,
and should not be considered a long-term archival format.  We should not get
into a situation with parallel software development for two different kinds of
file formats of the same data.

Bill Thompson