A Simple to Use, Interactive Graphics Software Package.

What is WIP?

WIP is an interactive package with a simple to use command line user interface used to produce high quality graphical output. WIP was developed as part of the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) project.

If you use WIP in your publications, please use the following reference:

J. A. Morgan. WIP - An Interactive Graphics Software Package, in: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes. PASP Conf Series 77, 129 (1995).

WIP Version History

Note:: As of March 2001 WIP and MIRIAD are together maintained under CVS. It also includes a new directory 'contrib' in which user contributed scripts and examples are located.

The current version of WIP is 2.3.9 (released 28 February 2007), though possibly later if the author of this webpage was forgetful (he often is). The following list identifies files that outline the changes and bug fixes made to WIP to get it to a particular version.

• Changes in Version 2.3 (Released: 12 Aug 1998)
• Changes in Version 2.2 (Released: 13 Nov 1996)
• Changes in Version 2.1 (Released: 30 Oct 1996)
• Changes in Version 2.0 (Released: 01 Jan 1995)
• Changes in Version 1.7 (Released: 10 Nov 1993)
• Changes in Version 1.6 (Released: 01 Oct 1992)
• Changes in Version 1.5 (Released: 01 Mar 1992)
• Changes in Version 1.3 (Released: 02 Nov 1991)

The WIP User's Manual

The WIP User's Manual has recently been upgraded for the latest version of WIP. In addition to the on-line version of the manual, there is a PostScript version. The PostScript version of the manual can be found in the WIP archive or it can be retrieved independently (see below for details).

Retrieval of WIP

The WIP anonymous ftp directory has the following to offer:

• A (gzipped) compressed tar file (1.3 Mbytes) that contains the latest release of WIP. This tar file includes both the source code of WIP and a complete up-to-date manual.
  Note: Building this code requires an ANSI C-compiler.
• A file that contains information on accessing the contents of the WIP archive and building WIP.
• A (gzipped) compressed PostScript file (0.4 Mbytes) that contains the most recent version of the WIP manual (150 pages). This PostScript file has the figures from the examples embedded within the document. This is the document that was used to generate the on-line version of the manual.
• A file that contains information on obtaining the latest PGPLOT release. PGPLOT must be built before WIP can be compiled; hence it is important that you have a relatively recent (5.1.0 or later) version of PGPLOT available on your system. Each release of WIP specifies the oldest version of PGPLOT that is required to build WIP. The latest archive release of PGPLOT can also be retrieved directly via the World Wide Web.
  Note: Starting with version 2.0 of WIP, the user is also required to build the PGPLOT C-binding library. See the PGPLOT installation notes for more details.
• A csh script called saoimage.csh that can be used to convert a lookup table (LUT) written by saoimage into something that WIP can use (via it's own lookup command).
• A compressed tar file (49 kbytes) that contains information and programs that will convert gray scale images to color halftones.
  Note: This code is no longer needed beginning with WIP version 2.0. Code for directly creating color images was incorporated in WIP at that time.

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