PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 1995-03-13 NOTE = "Instructions for obtaining NAIF Toolkit software via Internet. Points to documentation on Toolkit organization and use. Compiled from notes provided by Hester Neilan." END_OBJECT = TEXT END Instructions for Obtaining the NAIF Toolkit via FTP The NAIF Toolkit provides access to SPICE files. Files include spacecraft and planetary ephemerides (SPK files), instrument mounting information (IK files), attitude data for spacecraft (CK files), and histories of events (EK files). NAIF has compressed tar files that contain the Toolkit software for various operating systems. They are on a Sun SPARCstation 2 that supports anonymous ftp. To obtain your copy of the software, you should follow the scenario described below. Note that your computer may have different prompts and may not have the same implementation of ftp as the NAIF Sun. If you have problems with ftp, contact your system administrator. If you still have problems, contact NAIF. Documentation which accompanies the Toolkit describes formats of the files. In the DOCUMENT directory of this archive volume see also TK_DESCR.TXT and TK_INSTL.TXT, short descriptions of the Toolkit organization and installation. 1. ftp to the NAIF Sun ftp naif-sun.jpl.nasa.gov If this address cannot be resolved, try the numeric address for naif-sun, 128.149.126.11 2. Login as the user anonymous. ftp> user anonymous (or if you're given a prompt: Username: anonymous Name (han:naif): anonymous ) 3. Enter your e-mail address for the password. Password: user@host 4. Change directory to where the toolkit files are located. ftp> cd pub/naif/Toolkit/Sun If your operating system is HP, SGI, Solaris, DECStation, AlphaOSF1, or Mac, substitute that for "Sun" in the command above. 5. "get" the files toolkit_install.txt and toolkit_description.txt in ASCII mode. If the ftp default mode on your machine is binary, you can change to ASCII mode first. ftp> ascii ftp> get toolkit_install.txt ftp> get toolkit_description.txt 6. Set the transfer mode to binary. ftp> bin 7. "get" the compressed tar file toolkit.tar.Z. This tar file contains the NAIF Toolkit software. ftp> get toolkit.tar.Z Follow the instructions in the file toolkit_install.txt and extract the files. Do not build the executables or object library -- they are included in the compressed file. Try them out first to see if they work on your machine. If they don't, then you'll want to rebuild them.