INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DSS BATCH TOOL. Version 2.56 (Mar 20, 2003) Patched (Feb, 2013) Please refer to the README.html file for information about the package, and its usage. Below are the short installation instructions for the ESO/ST-ECF version of "dss", a software originally produced by STScI for extracting data from the Digital Sky Survey. "dss" can be invoked with an input list of target areas to be downloaded to disk. Please refer to the README.html file to know more. This distribution includes versions of this software for HP/UX (11.), Solaris 8, Linux (x86 platforms) and MacOSX (PowerPC capable). This installation requires about 55MB of disk space. The changes made in this patch reflect some ESO infrastructural changes. No new functionality is provided to users. The previous (not patched) version can no longer be used. The Mac version requires a PowerPC, and therefore cannot run on Lion (10.7.x) and beyond. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS If you have a previous version of this tool alredy installed, rename the old installation, e.g.: cd # Or whatever place you choose mv dss dss-old # only if you had already installed this dss tool before # # get the software using your favorite tool at the following address: # http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/dss/dss.tar.gz For example: wget -O dss.tar.gz 'http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/dss/dss.tar.gz' cd # e.g., /usr/local or a directory where you have write privileges gunzip -c dss.tar.gz | tar xf - cd dss cp scripts/dss1 /usr/local/bin/dss1 cp scripts/dss2 /usr/local/bin/dss2 # or where ever your put your local executables # (You might need root priviledges) # Please change both /usr/local/bin/dss1 and /usr/local/bin/dss2 # to reflect the exact software location. # For example: setenv DSS_ROOT /usr/local/dss # Each of the "bin.$ARCH" sub-directory contains 1 executable: the dss # program itself You can now use "dss1" to access the 1st, 25 micron sky survey or "dss2" to access the second epoch survey at 15 micron resolution. Again please read the README.html file for information about how to best use these applications. If you have any problem, please contact usd-help@eso.org, using as subject: DSS batch tool.