NAME¶

XPAChanges - Changes For Users from XPA 1.0 and 2.0

SYNOPSIS¶

This document describes changes that will affect users who migrate from XPA 1.0 to XPA 2.0.

DESCRIPTION¶

There have been a few changes that affect users who upgrade XPA from version 1.0 to version 2.0. These changes are detailed below.

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XPA commands no longer have a resolver routine (this is open to negotiations, but we decided the idea was dumb). For the SAOtng program, this means that you must explicitly specify the access point, i.e.,:

 

  cat foo.fits ⎪ xpaset SAOtng fits
    

 

instead of:

 

  cat foo.fits ⎪ xpaset SAOtng
    

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By default, xpaset, xpaget, etc. now wait for the server callback to complete; i.e., the old \-W is implied (and the switch is ignored). This allows support for better error handling. If you want xpaset, etc. to return before the callback is complete, use \-n switch:

 

  echo "file foo.fits" ⎪ xpaset -n SAOtng
    

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The old \-w switch in xpaset and xpaget is no longer necessary (and is ignored), since you can have more than one process communicating with an xpa access point at one time.

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The new \-p switch on xpaset means you need not read from stdout:

 

  xpaset -p SAOtng colormap I8
    

 

will send the paramlist to the SAOtng callback without reading from stdin.

SEE ALSO¶

See xpa(7) for a list of XPA help pages