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UNIX users:  The data has been archived with the "tar" command (1-5 files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