Release Notes
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Release date - 12-01-2004

Release Identification:
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This contains the release of conVOT version 0.9. 

conVOT has been developed as a part of the Virtual Observatory - India initiative 
by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and 
Persistent Systems . The VO-I project is supported by the Ministry of Information 
and Communication Technology of the Government of India.   

conVOT uses nom.tam.fits library for reading FITS tables. nom.tam.fits is developed 
at Heasarc.

conVOT uses VOTable JAVA Streaming Writer for writing the data in VOTable format. 
The VOTable JAVA Streaming Writer is developed as part of Virtual Observatory India 
initiative. 

conVOT is tested successfully on various platforms such as Win2000, WinNT & Linux.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. 
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE RIGHTHOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, 
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Product Support Information/Feedback address:
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For feedback contact voindia@vo.iucaa.ernet.in.

System Requirements:
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	Java Runtime Environment (1.3.1 or later) required.

In this release:
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	- Features
	* Supports conversion of ASCII tables with column delimiters &
	  ASCII tables with fixed width columns.
	* Supports conversion of FITS ASCII & Binary tables.
	* The VOTable is written to output stream using streaming interface.
	* Supports conversion of large ASCII table files(as large as 354MB) because
	  the lines from ASCII table is read in memory line by line.
	
	- Limitations
	* Runs out of memory for big FITS files since it does not use streaming to 
	  read the FITS file.