[fitsbits] New Fv/POW FITS file editor

[William Pence]

Fv 2.6.1 is Now Available
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A new version of the Fv FITS file viewer and editor and the associated
POW image display and graphics tool is now available from the HEASARC
web site at:

           http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv

This major release contains many new features.  Versions are freely
available for most Unix platforms (including SUN O/S, SUN Solaris, Dec
OSF, and both Mac and PC Linux), and for MacOS (new in this release) and
Windows NT/95/98.

For more information about Fv and POW please visit the following
Web pages:

    - an overview of the major features of Fv and POW:
      http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/fv_features.html

    - a pictorial preview of the main Fv and POW windows:
      http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/fv_screen.html

    - an illustrated on-line tutorial that walks you through the 
      main operations that can be performed with Fv and POW:
      http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/tutorial/fv_guide.html
      (this currently still refers to the previous v2.5 release)

    - html versions of all the Fv and POW help files:
      http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/fv_help.html

    - information about controlling the Fv and POW functions from
      command language scripts or from external programs:
      http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/scripts/scripts.html

Please send any comments, bug reports, or suggestions to

           ftoolshelp at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov

The Fv development team currently consists of:

    William Pence:  Project Scientist
    Peter Wilson:   Tcl/Tk programmer, fv/POW programmer        
    Lawrence Brown: Tcl/Tk programmer, original author of POW

Fv and fitsTcl were originally written by Jianjun Xu.
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