Image::DS9 is an interface to the DS9 program developed by the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's High Energy Astrophysics R&D
Group.  DS9 is a flexible and feature laden image display and analysis
program.  While targeted at the astronomical community, it is
versatile enough to be used with success by others.

Image::DS9 is in a very embryonic state; it does not support all of DS9's
features, and the API may change.  It requires the IPC::XPA module to
communicate with ds9.  It is being developed to interoperate with PDL.

For details on DS9, including the source (and binaries for some
platforms), please refer to 

	http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/

IPC::XPA is available from CPAN; it requires the XPA library available
at

	http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/


INSTALLATION
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This package has been tested on Perl 5.005_01, and xpa 2.0.3.  The
only platform it's been tested on is Solaris 2.6.

You will need to install IPC::XPA first.

To compile, test and install Image::DS9,

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make install

Unfortunately, there are not tests yet defined.

To install a private copy, try something like

	perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl

to generate the Makefile.

COPYRIGHT
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(C) 2000 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.  All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
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Diab Jerius ( djerius@cfa.harvard.edu )