I put a new skycat version on the ftp server:

ftp://ftp.archive.eso.org/pub/skycat/

This includes the following changes:

* Fixed byte-swap problems in FITS files and made Linux compatible.
Skycat should now work on machines that have a byte order that is
different from network byte-order (such as PCs).
Thanks to Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu> for supplying the
patches
for this.

* The "Pick Object" feature (View Menu) now also works for images that
do not support world coordinates.

* (Rtd) Local file URLs are now supported, i.e., file:/path/name...
Now you can specify the URL for the catalog config file using
file:/...

* (Catlib) It is now possible to search GSC by Id. **(see below)

NOTE for Catlib users:

In order to be able to search GSC by object id, I would have to change
the URL in the catalog config file. The problem is that this breaks
previous versions of skycat and catlib. I left the line in the config
file, commented out, so if you need this feature, you can copy the
config file to a local directory and use

setenv SKYCAT_CONFIG file:/your/path/name/skycat.cfg

to tell skycat to use a local config file. Note that most changes to
the config file don't cause this problem, but this one does because of
some picky error checking code.

You can get the original config file from

http://archive.eso.org/skycat/skycat.cfg

The URL to use for GSC, if you wan't to be able to search by object id
is:

http://archive.eso.org/skycat/servers/gsc-server?%ra%dec&obj=%id&r=%r1,%r2&m=%m1,%m2&n=%n&f=8&s=R&F=*

The previous version was:

http://archive.eso.org/skycat/servers/gsc-server?%ra%dec&r=%r1,%r2&m=%m1,%m2&n=%n&f=8&s=R&F=*

-- 

Allan