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                  Spectroscopic Toolkit version 1.86,
                  Pieter Suurmond, october 17, 2004.

LICENSE

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical version.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

DOWNLOAD

The latest version of Spectroscopic Toolkit may be downloaded from the Utrecht School of the Arts' webserver: http://kmt.hku.nl/~pieter/SOFT/

UNPACK

After downloading file 'STx.xx.tar.gz' (where 'x.xx' stands for the revision number), change to the appropriate directory and unpack by

typing: gunzip STx.xx.tar.gz tar xf STx.xx.tar

This should have created a new directory called 'STx.xx'. When you go in there and take a look, by typing:

                cd STx.xx
                ls -ls

you should find this very README file, a huge textfile, and two subdirectories: one for sourcecode and one for documentation:

              8 -rw-r--r--  1 pieter  user     1852 Sep 18 20:46 README
         171064 -rw-r--r--  1 pieter  user 87582045 Sep 18 20:04 gfall.dat
              8 drwxr-xr-x  2 pieter  user     4096 Nov 26  2002 html
              8 drwxr-xr-x  4 pieter  user     4096 Sep 19 02:24 src

COMPILE

Change to subdirectory 'src' and compile by typing:

                cd src
                make

which should yield an executable called 'ST' in the parent directory. Leave the source directory and take a look, by typing:

                cd ../
                ls -ls

            384 -rwxr-xr-x  1 pieter  user   195704 Sep 19 03:06 ST

The software requires no special installation, after successfull compilation you can simply run it.

RUN

Just type:

./ST

which explains usage and the program's optional parameters . Whenever ST needs spectroscopic data, it first tries to generate a binary version of Kurucz' database: textfile 'gfall.dat' is converted to 'gfall.pbin'. Notice that native binary .pbin files may not be portable amongst platforms (especially not between big and little endians).

ST expects datafiles to reside next to the application. It also generates files in the current directory.

ORIGIN OF THE SPECTROSCOPIC DATA

The author of ST downloaded textfile 'gfall.dat' on feb 12, 2001 from server ftp://cfaku5.harvard.edu using text-mode (which wass important!), directory CFAKU5:[LINELISTS.GFALL]:

GFALL.DAT;2 172163 5-OCT-2000 12:31:48.82

It should contain exactly 564942 lines and it should be 87582045 bytes in size (in UNIX). Thanks to Robert L. Kurucz!