This directory on the CD-ROM contains the BINHEX version of Browser3.0.sea.hqx in the file BROWSER.HQX The BINHEX file is the self-extracting archive (.sea) of the Browser 3.0 software. Please be advised this software is shareware and carries the obligation to the user to register and pay the appropriate fee for usage. ============================================================================== Enclosed you will find the 940118 release of the shareware program "Browser 3". This is the second maintenance release of Browser 3. Since the 930614 maintenance release there have been many improvements and extensions added. Most improvements involve table processing, image processing, and PDS ODL handling. Browser 3 now requires a 68020 - 68040 Macintosh with a math co- processor, system 7.0 or later, and 2 megabytes or more of working ram space. Most scientific data formats are supported, FITS, HDF, PDS, SAFF, TEXT, VICAR, and others. As well as most conventional data types, images, tables, text, binary, and compressed types. Support is included for Compuserve GIF format, TIFF, PICT, Microsoft Windows BMP files, etc. Compressed data files using Huffman, Huffman first difference, run length encoded, previous pixel, or Limpel-Ziv-Welsh are processed correctly. Browser 3 works with several basic standardized data types. These types can be converted to one another using menu operations, and the built-in macro language can be used to automate processing these data types. Information on the macro language is included in the file "Keyword definitions" on the distribution disk, each operation and the data types it can process is listed there. The basic internal data types are: Integer images, with 8, 16, or 32 bits per pixel. All other integer formats are converted to one of these types. Floating point images, with 32 bits per pixel IEEE short data. All other floating point image formats are converted to this type. Color images, both 8 bit indexed palette images and 24 bits per pixel RGB with an 8 bit alpha channel packed into a 32bit per pixel record. Generic text records. When Browser finds a file which is coded in an unusual text format it is automatically converted to the optimum local format for the Macintosh. Tabular data. Browser converts all two dimensional data with named rows or columns to a standard internal table format. Subtables can be readily selected using the mouse in standard Macintosh user interface operations. Subtables can be converted to images where that might be appropriate. Thumbnail images. Thumbnails are square images attached to a table. This format allows automatic catalog generation and user defined processing of data sets. Vector data, 32 bits per sample, either integer or IEEE short floating point format. This data type is used for spectra, statistics, or other Tests have been run to assure that the Browser 3 can access and process the data files found on the following CD-ROMs: ADC_CAT001 Selected Astronomical Catalogs test disk ADC_CAT_0011 - CAT_0012 Selected Astronomical Catalogs FITS & Text EO 1-3 Einstein Observatory IPC-XRAY data GOES 1 Goes Space Environment Monitor IHW_GZ_0001 Comet Giacobini-Zinner IHW_HAL_0001 - HAL_0024 International Halley Watch IHW_LSPN_0001 Comet Halley images IRAS 1-4 IRAS sky survey atlas JEDI A-C JEDI disks JPL_GO_0002 - GO_0006 Galilaeo REDR disks JPL_MGNTEST2 Pre-Magellan radar and gravity JPL_MG_0001 - MG_0123 Magellan MIDR image mosaics JPL_MG_1001 Pre-Magellan radar and gravity JPL_MG_2001 - MG_2019 Magellan ARCDR Altimetry and Radiometry JPL_MG_3002 Magellan GxDR, Global altim. and radiom. PDS_GR_0001 - GR_0009 GRSFE disks PDS_VG_0001 - VG_0012 Voyager 1 & 2 images PDS_VG_1001 - VG_1002 Voyager 2 Fields & Particles PDS_VO_0001 Viking orbiter 1 & 2 thermal mapper PDS_VO_1001 - VO_1018 Viking 1 orbiter PDS_VO_1051 - VO_1057 Viking 2 orbiter PDS_VO_2001 - VO_2014 Viking orbiter images, color, and .GIF SELSI Scientific Enviorn Lab Solar Imaging System UARP_OPT_001 - OPT_003 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Image and Data disks USGS_DDS-3 Sea-floor maps Western Mass Bay USGS_JES_2 Side-Looking Airborne Radar USGS_MBR_0001 High Resolution Bathymetry To assist in using the most popular data sets, Browser includes pre- defined utilities under the sub-menu "Data Set Specials". These utilities are given as examples of how to use the Browser to access the data on the CD's in more useful ways than tediously opening each file and manually interpreting it. Examples of the included utilities are: IHW data sets: Generate catalogs of various data types. Allow standard processing of subsets of the catalogs created. TOMS: plot the ozone profile over time for any given latitude and longitude. Another utility allows the world map to be overlaid over the data. Voyager and Viking image data: From the index table, select a set of files to receive standard processing, then do the process on them. Standard processes could be print, view, do statistical analysis, FFT each image in the selected set, etc. As new data sets are received, Browser 3 will be re-tested and upgraded as necessary to maintain compatibility. All current registered users will be mailed updated versions of the program. I can now supply the documentation files included on the distribution disk as printed manuals for registered users when requested. Browser 3 is a shareware program, feel free to distribute it, unchanged, on any media to anyone who might be able to use it. If you write any macro utilities others might find useful, please forward a copy back to the author for distribution with future Browser releases. Thank you for your continued support: Dana Swift 3124 S Madison Ave Tulsa, OK 74105