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  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."                  
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       Instructions for Obtaining the NAIF Toolkit via FTP                    
                                                                              
                                                                              
The NAIF Toolkit provides access to SPICE files.  Files include               
spacecraft and planetary ephemrides (SPK files), instrument mounting          
information (IK files), attitidue 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.