Installation of SAO Preview for the WWW

This is a first release of this facility. We would be very interested in your comments on how useful this is, and on how easy it was to install.
To install the SAO Image preview for our WWW interface you need the following.
  1. A Sun Sparc (SunOS) Compatible computer. (This is currently the only supported platform.)
  2. Download the cadcimage, and the mddisplay executables. .
    ( Remember to select 'Load to local disk' in Mosaic or 'Save Next Link As...' in Netscape before clicking on the above links ! )
    cadcimage is a modified version of SAO Image developed by the CADC. mddisplay is a small program that retrieves the image data via your WWW browser and sends it to cadcimage.
  3. Make the two files you just downloaded executable
    (chmod +x cadcimage mddisplay)
    and install them somewhere in your $PATH. If you simply leave them in the same directory as where you started your Web browser it should be OK. (Maybe it would be a good idea to coordinate this with your local system manager, so they could be made available to other users at your site too).
  4. Add the following line in your ~/.mailcap file :
    starcat/x-preview; mddisplay %s
    You can install this by pasting the following line with the mouse and drop it in an xterm : echo "starcat/x-preview; mddisplay %s" >> $HOME/.mailcap
  5. Restart your WWW Browser, or in Mosaic select Options - Reload Config Files in the menubar. Our server should now automatically detect that you have installed the software and send you the compressed FITS file for SAO Image instead of the normal inlined GIF image.