The OSIRIS User's Manual
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Appendix C:
Additional Information & Online Documents

World-Wide Web Services:

OSIRIS Web Page:

Ohio State: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~osiris/

CTIO: http://www.ctio.noao.edu/osiris2soar/

These sites are mirror images of each other. The CTIO site is updated as new information becomes available. The OSU site is updated more typically over the course of an observing semester as these changes accumulate.

Prospero Support Web Page:

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~prospero

This web site includes a searchable online manual for the Prospero package, and copies of all of the documentation. A help line and other services will be included in the future.

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Documents available via Anonymous FTP (not yet supported):

Connection info:

ftp site: ftp.astronomy.ohio-state.edu

login: anonymous

password: your full email address

OSIRIS Documents:

PostScript format copies of all OSIRIS documents are available online at our anonymous ftp site as well as through our WWW sites above:

    cd pub/OSIRIS

Documents are available as either gzip compressed PostScript (.gz) files or uncompressed PostScript (.ps) files. For example:

    binary
    get osiris.gz

    ascii
    get osiris.ps

and print using

    zcat osiris.gz | lpr

for gzip compressed files.

To download the complete document package (compressed tar archive):

    binary
    get osdocs.tar.Z

and unpack using

    zcat osdocs.tar.Z | tar xvf -

See the README file for the list of available documents.

Prospero Documents:

PostScript format copies of the various Prospero manuals and reference guides are available online at our anonymous ftp site as well as through our WWW sites above:

    cd pub/prospero

Individual files are available as either gzip compressed PostScript (.gz) files or uncompressed PostScript (.ps) files. For example, to retrieve the observer?s guide, you would type either:

    binary
    get obsguide.gz

    ascii
    get obsguide.ps

To retrieve all documents (Unix tar file):

    binary
    get prdocs.tar