This is a reverse chronological list of changes to all library routines since the switch-over from the previous version of IDL.
slewdur: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/27
obsdur: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/27
robomean: 2002/01/15, MWB, fixed a subtle case where the data leads to stdev=0.0 that was causing the program to crash.
kbompck: 2002/01/14, MWB, added ASTDIR and KBODIR keywords.
openmysql: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/09
mysqlcmd: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/09
lsidtim: 2002/01/08, MWB, 2-d input on jd is now allowed.
hangle: 2002/01/08, MWB, now allows 2-d input for jd,ra,dec
airmass: 2002/01/08, MWB, now allows 2-d inputs on jd,ra,dec
srcast: 2002/01/07, MWB, added DIR keyword
rdstarc: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/07
remfit: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/12/20
pntcol: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/12/19
refext: 2001/12/07, MWB, added CATPAD (same as in astrom.pro).
lcltoeq: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/11/22, ported from a C library routine.
ccdcal: 2001/11/09, MWB, added support for an input list of file numbers.
reductor: 2001/11/06, MWB, allowed for cached ephemeris calculations
coord: 2001/11/06, MWB, added CACHE, FNCACHE keywords to ephem call
rastr: 2001/11/04, MWB, fixed bug in places=-7 case
kbompck: 2001/11/01, MWB, added new category
bidr2: 2001/10/29, WMG, added "Pfn", "Pparms", and "pedantic" parameters
astrom: 2001/10/23, MWB, changed constraint on minimum number of stars, was forced to be 10, now it can be lower if you don't enable all the cross terms.
nobsupdt: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/17
tnorecov: 2001/10/09, MWB, updated for new .[s]dat file format
mosplot: 2001/10/09, MWB, added KPNO keyword flag
moscheck: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/09
hastr: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/09
kbompck: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/05
xdesig: 2001/10/03, MWB, upgraded to LONG loop counters.
exporter: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/09/26
autocal: 2001/09/25, MWB, forced imagetyp field to be lower case.
ccdproc: 2001/09/19, MWB, fixed minor bug in error messages
itool__define: 2001/9/18, MWB, fixed color error in plots with 8-bit display.
looker: 2001/09/04, MWB, added "Toggle Color Mode" option, displays difference image
mosplot: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/08/28
astsolve: 2001/08/27, MWB, changed to auto-scale errors with /edit
mmaspli: 2001/08/19, MWB, modified to work on any even number of groups.
rdobjdes: 2001/08/15, MWB, upgraded to use LONG for all counters.
astlinks: 2001/08/15, MWB, changed to use new rdlplast procedure.
rangepar: 2001/07/25 - Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory.
tnorecov: 2001/06/19, MWB, added Show Object Info on Tools menu item.
tnorecov: 2001/06/09, MWB, object coordinates updated for changing time. Make the widget independent of the working directory of the main IDL window.
objappul: 2001/05/31, MWB, added MINSEP keyword
matchup: 2001/05/16, MWB, added OBJECTKEY keyword
fitsedit: 2001/05/16, MWB, implemented the "Save" function which will cause the current file to be overwritten.
obsprop: 2001/05/01, MWB, fixed objcode bug.
objappul: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/05/01
ldcalib: 2001/05/01, MWB, changed behavior so that if x1,x2 or y1,y2 make it to the end, then these values are loaded from the cxsize or cysize.
mkflat: 2001/04/28, MWB, added DDIR keyword
mkbias: 2001/04/28, MWB, added DDIR keyword.
looker: 2001/04/27, MWB, added FITS sub-image saves to "Snap Object"
autocal: 2001/04/24, MWB, fixed problem with incomplete flat sets on a night.
sspos: 2001/04/20, MWB, changed to support new geteph/ephem
showelem: 2001/04/20, MWB, changed to support new version of geteph/ephem
astrom: 2001/04/20, MWB, changes to support new ephem/geteph version
tnoobs: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.
sspos: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.
showelem: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.
logerror: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.
fieldobs: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call
datamon: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call to use /julian flag
ast2ted: 2001/04/18, MWB, added slowfile output option
astlist: 2001/04/17, MWB, added slowfile output option
kbolist: 01/04/06, DBT - Fixed bug in rate
ephem: 01/04/06, DBT, added PIPE keyword
des_sum: 01/04/06, DBT - Fixed bug in sort, Fixed bug in KBOName, cleand up code
itool__define: 2001/4/3, MWB, added plotting of active template in work window
ephem: 01/04/03, MWB, changed to support two error numbers in information
rdlplast: 01/04/02 - Written by David B. Tucker, Lowell Observatory 20001/08/15, MWB, restructured the calling sequence and defaults.
astrom: 2001/03/29, MWB, limit size of ephemeris error to twice field size.
astrom: 2001/03/28, MWB, added support of properly using a 24-bit display.
sspos: 2001/03/22, David Tucker, changed obsfile support
focscan: Written by Marc W. Buie, 2001/03/22, Lowell Observatory.
fieldobs: 2001/03/19, David Tucker, changed use of rdobscod for new file handling.
autocal: 2001/03/19, MWB, fixed file name bug.
obsprop: 2001/03/16, David Tucker, changed rdobscod call and file default
obsplan: 2001/03/16, David Tucker, changed rdobscod default file call.
tnorecov: 2001/03/14, MWB, changed for new format of support file.
tnorecov: 2001/03/12, MWB, numerous changes including online help files.
rdobscod: 2001/03/12, MWB, changed method of locating the obscode.dat file. Now looks in the user's IDL_PATH for this file.
mkflat: 2001/02/23, MWB, added option to provide input file list.
mkdark: 2001/02/23, MWB, added option to provide input file list. Also, added functions to make it consistent with mkbais,mkflat.
mkbias: 2001/02/23, MWB, added option to provide input file list.
autocal: 2001/02/15 - Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
lowess: 2001/02/01, MWB, changed polyfitw call to poly_fit equivalent
nic1scan: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/01/30
basphote: 2001/01/25, MWB, fixed bug in certain cases when overriding the object serial number. Also took out all "message" calls to make sure info and warning messages are seen.
colbias: 2001/01/22, MWB, changed so bias region is clipped by crop region.
looker: 2001/01/17, MWB, added "Snap Object" tool.
rdobjdes: 01/01/08, Written by Susan Kern
des_sum: 01/01/04, Written by Susan Kern
kbolist: 01/01/02, Written by Susan Kern
rdobscod: 2000/11/19, MWB, added different default file for Windows.
medarr_mwb: 2000/11/19, MWB, renamed to avoid name conflict with Astron library
colbias: 2000/11/19, MWB, added support for new data types
rdoblist: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.
raparse: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.
objrepor: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.
decparse: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.
xrunplot: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()
xdspec: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete code constructs
starcat: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()
rdpricat: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()
rdkeylis: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()
plch_fun: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()
phasebin: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()
perser: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete code constructs
gxpar: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of !err
fitsedit: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of !err
altoha: 2000/11/06, MWB, changed to permit vector inputs.
jdparse: 2000/11/05, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
robomean: 2000/11/2, MWB, cosmetic rewrite.
moment4: 2000/11/2, MWB, modified to use the IDL system function moment. This routine really does nothing more than rewrap the IDL function.
badpar: 2000/11/1, MWB, added new types for IDL v5.4