JCMTDR's VAX version 1.0 has been ported to Unix and is about to be submitted to Starlink for release as version 1.1. Following are the differences in the Unix version:

So far it is common to run the commands from the Unix shell. To start up JCMTDR from the shell you need to have the following lines in your `.cshrc' and `.login' respectively:

source /star/etc/cshrc

source /star/etc/login

Then the command

% jcmtdr

will define all the commands of the JCMTDR package.

On-line help is available, from the Unix shell use `jcmt_help'. Alas, the help library is identical to the one on the VAX, so part of it may not be applicable.

GSD format is currently not supported. Thus `makemap', `gsd_print' and `gsd_format' are not available. You will have to process GSD data on a VAX with JCMTDR 1.0.

JCMTDR data are in Figaro/NDF format and can be transferred as binary files between VMS and various Unix flavours. It is not necessary to process the files. However, you might run the `native' command from the Kappa package on the files on the destination machine. This may save some time in further access to the file.

Horst Meyerdierks,

The University of Edinburgh