Image::DS9 is an interface to the DS9 program developed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's High Energy Astrophysics R&D Group. DS9 is a flexible and feature laden image display and analysis program. While targeted at the astronomical community, it is versatile enough to be used with success by others. Image::DS9 is in a very embryonic state; it does not support all of DS9's features, and the API may change. It requires the IPC::XPA module to communicate with ds9. It is being developed to interoperate with PDL. For details on DS9, including the source (and binaries for some platforms), please refer to http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/ IPC::XPA is available from CPAN; it requires the XPA library available at http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/ INSTALLATION ------------ This package has been tested on Perl 5.005_01, and xpa 2.0.3. The only platform it's been tested on is Solaris 2.6. You will need to install IPC::XPA first. To compile, test and install Image::DS9, perl Makefile.PL make make install Unfortunately, there are not tests yet defined. To install a private copy, try something like perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl to generate the Makefile. COPYRIGHT --------- (C) 2000 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. AUTHOR ------ Diab Jerius ( djerius@cfa.harvard.edu )