TARP version 1.1 now available

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

  Tom Droege suggested that I give a name and version 
to the entire ensemble of software used to reduce
TASS Mark IV data, so that one might reproduce exactly
the steps taken in the reduction at some point in the
future.  That's a good idea.  

  Therefore, I have created a WWW site for "TARP",
which can stand for 

      TASS Astronomical Reduction Programs

(or lots of other things).  You can find it described
at URL

      http://spiff.rit.edu/tass/tarp/tarp.html

  Today (March 16, 2003), I am announcing version
1.1 of TARP, which includes

        * XVista 0.1.2
        * bait 0.1
        * match 0.6
        * photom 0.6
        * pipeline 0.4

  Tom has been using TARP 1.0 to reduce data so far.
The only difference between the two version is in
the "pipeline" component, which has jumped from 0.3 to 0.4.
The is no difference in the reductions per se -- 
all the numbers (magnitudes, positions, flatfielding, etc.)
should be exactly the same.  Version 0.4 of the pipeline
scripts are simply a bit more robust to bad data, so that
they don't halt in the middle of a run.  Tom should be able
to run data through the new version without having to 
intervene manually so frequently.

  Just for fun, I added up the quantity of the software
in these packages.  The total is 62,065 lines of code,
or about 1.77 MBytes.  Phew.

                                 Michael Richmond