This manual describes the astrotcl package , a collection of C, C++ and Tcl utilities for astronomical software development, wrapped up in a dynamically loadable Tcl package. This version contains support for world coordinates, FITS image I/O and compression and is intended to be reusable by other C++ and Tcl based applications.
The purpose of this manual is to describe the Astronomical Tcl and C++ utilities package and its implementation.
This document is primarily aimed at software developers using the package. This package is dependent on the tclutil package and is currently used by the rtd , cat , and skycat packages.
This document is based on the following documents:
[ 1] VLT-PRO-ESO-10000-0228, 1.0 10/03/93 -- VLT Software Programming Standards
The following documents are referenced in this document:
[ 1] VLT-MAN-ESO-19400-1550 1.0 19/01/98 -- Tcl and C++ Utilities, Programmer's Manual
Please send questions or comments to abrighto@eso.org.
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