This directory contains the files for the Catalog of Infrared Observations (NASA Reference Publication RP-1294), edition 5.1, by Daniel Y. Gezari, Patricia S. Pitts, and Marion Schmitz. Approximately 39.7 megabytes worth of data have been compressed into twelve ~1 megabyte files named cio01.tar.Z through cio09.tar.Z, names.tar.Z, psc.tar.Z, and spec+ref.tar.Z. For an explanation of the file formats, see FORMATS. The UNITS file explains in detail the abbreviations used in the Units column of the data files. The JOURNALS file lists which journals were searched. Uncompressed files are available in the subdirectory ciov5.1. UNIX users: The data has been archived with the "tar" command (1-5 files per .tar file) and compressed with the "compress" command. Check with your system administrator if you have questions about downloading and/or decompressing the files. If accessing via the World Wide Web, your server may automatically manage this file type. PC users: If you are using Windows, the utility WinZip can handle .tar.Z files very nicely. The following procedure works in versions 5.6 and later: 1. Download file (specify "binary" if using FTP). If prompted, give the file the extension .taz or .tar (e.g. cio01.tar - version 6.1 of WinZip seems to work better using the .tar extension). If downloading off a Web page, click on the file name to download it. 2. If you have WinZip installed as a browser plugin, it can be set up to open the compressed file automatically. Otherwise, you will need to open the file manually with WinZip. In either case, WinZip will display a message such as "Compressed file contains one file: cio01.tar. Should WinZip decompress it to a temporary directory and open it?" 3. If you say "yes", WinZip displays the files archived in cio01.tar. Tell WinZip to extract to the desired directory (e.g. \CIO). A subdirectory called \ciov5.1 will be created under \CIO and the uncompressed files will appear there. WinZip is available for Windows 95 and Windows NT users from http://www.winzip.com/. It is shareware and should be registered after an evaluation period. Mac users: The shareware application Stuffit Expander can decode UNIX compressed files while the freeware program Suntar can extract files from tar archives. Both are available from any mirror site of the Stanford Macintosh archives, such as the searchable Info-Mac Hyperarchive run by MIT at http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html. (Thanks to Dr. Harvey J. Cohen for this information.) Patricia Pitts ppitts@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov