[bananas] New AIPSLetter

[Eric Greisen]

The AIPS Group will no longer be issuing new "releases" of AIPS in the
traditional sense, where a frozen and dated (e.g. 15OCT99) version was
made available via ftp, CDROM and other media.  Instead, we plan to
continue work indefinitely on a version of AIPS labelled "31DEC99".  This
version will be made available for user sites to download via a nightly-
generated tar.gz file, and the resulting installation should be
synchonized periodically (e.g. daily) via a "midnight job" that operates
using the secure shell (ssh).

We do plan, however, to release new AIPSLetters about every 6 months in
order to report progress on 31DEC99 and other announcements.  Accordingly
a new April 1, 2000 AIPSLetter has been written and is now available from

    http://www.cv.nrao.edu/aips/TEXT/PUBL/LET00A.PS

Those of you who have subscribed to printed copies will receive them in
due course via snail mail.

The most important information in this AIPSLetter is the loss of Ketan
Desai to more profitable employment and the availability of a position
with the AIPS Group in Socorro.  The text of that announcement will follow
in another bananagram.  Other news includes a new experimental,
multi-resolution algorithm added to IMAGR and other changes to remove bugs
and ease use of IMAGR.  The interactive editing tasks (EDITR et al.) have
gained the ability of editing multiple IFs and/or polarizations at the
same time and SPFLG now handles IFs on the channel axis.  Phase
re-referencing was corrected.  VLA data weights have a new form available
and these weights may be calibrated along with the visibilities
everywhere.  Flag tables may be plotted by a new task FGPLT.  Slices may
now be handled on the TV as well as on the Tek display.

Enjoy, 

Eric Greisen