Re: DS9

[John McKendry <mckendry@mediaone.net>]

jbush@pucp.edu.pe wrote:
> 
> tom
> 
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> > If I can't do this with DS9 then why does it have the box etc.,
> > features.  What good is such a command if you can't cut and paste?
> 
> maybe it tells you in the manual how to do this ?   but, of course, the
> first thing is to be able to find and read the manual :]]]]]
> 
> has anyone been able to access the manual ? if so how ????
> 
> jamie

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9 is the main page, and 
 "/doc/v2.0/ref/ref.html is the online reference manual; you can also
download the whole thing (HTML pages) in .tar.gz form.

 All it says about Cut/Copy/Paste is "not implemented yet". The 2.1 reference
manual does describe these commands, implying that they are/will be implemented in 2.1,
but 2.1 seems to be at beta 2. 
 You can find 2.1 b2 source at ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/rd/ds9/source -
the README tells how to build it for Windows using Cygwin (not Visual C++). 
I'm willing to give it a try if nobody beats me to it.
 Note that even if DS9 2.1 does implement cut and paste it may not be what you
want it to be; it's not clear that you can save the clipped region to a new
file. But maybe there's a way to to hook ds9 and iraf together and at least
semi-automate the operation...

John