SACDRT Version 3.1 SAC-Database-Reader for DeepSky Objects

Sacdrt is a reader and translater for the sac databse version 5.2 and 
version 6.0. Lower versions might work, but not tested.
Sacdrt will input the databse, parse the entries and show them on the screen
(one bye one). You can mark objects, search (by name and other), sort the
marked objects (by name, declination, rektaszension, magnitude, type and const)
and you can do a complex search (see manual page), e.g. to get all objects
with NGC in the name and magnutide from 4 up to 8.
The marked objects could be printed, wether in a file or to a printer (ascii
or ps). For further information refer to the manual page.

The installation of this program requires the NCURSES package (version 1.8
or greater, lower versions may be work but they are not tested) and GMAKE
(don't know if the makefiles will work with the normal make).
When you want to print ps you need also the A2PS from Miguel SANTANA.


You should have received the file sacdrt-3.1.tar.z or sacdrt31.taz .
In the second case move the file to sacdrt-3.1.tar.z.

to decompress the archive type

   gzip -d sacdrt-3.1.tar.z

Then use tar to extract the source files by typing

   tar xfv sacdrt-3.1.tar

Now you have a directory 'sacdrt3.1'. Change to this directory with

   cd sacdrt3.1

Now type make and follow the instructions (you need to know the path of
the ncurses library and includes and where you like to install sacdrt).

  Note (question 10): Thre are 2 ways to get ACS char's from ncurses.
		      The first is, to compile the terminfo database
		      when installing ncurses (using tic). The second
		      is to create a new terminfo databse and compile
		      it with tic (on my university i am not root and
		      he will not install the ncurses, so i did it in
		      a public directory). Then set the env TERMINFO to
		      the new directory.
 		      When both ways are impossible, we use the standart
		      char's to create a box ('|' '-' '+').
		      So answer 'y' when your terminfo database is re-
		      compiled from ncurses or not.
		      

When configuration is ok, type 'make term' or 'make sacdrt_term' to compile
the program, 'make install' to install the binary and the man-page in the
given directories.

Read the manual page or try 'sacdrt -h' for information on how to start the
program with the database.


THANKS TO: Zeyd (and every one who helped improve the ncurses)!!!
           Sven Mathing and Stefan Arbanowski. 
           Steve Coe for a lot of help by the realisation of the parsers.
           Carsten Borman for new ideas.
           Hellmuth Michaelis for initrc[c,h] code.
           Miguel SANTANA for the a2ps.

have fun.
vdmeer@cs.tu-berlin.de
