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11 Nov 2008

These are the webpages relative to Sherpa in the CIAO 3.4 release (18 December 2006). They are no longer actively updated, however the CXC will continue limited support of CIAO 3.4 for the near future.

15 Dec 2008

The newest version of the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations software, is CIAO 4.1, released on 15 December 2008. Read the release notes for detailed information. This release requires that CALDB 4.1.0 be installed for the software to work correctly.

I/O Bugs: save

Bugs

XSpec commands which aren't recorded in the save file.
The "save all" command will not correctly save information for a dataset whose axis (or axes) has been created using the set_axes() function.

Bugs

XSpec commands which aren't recorded in the save file.

The xspec abundan and xspec xsect commands are not recorded in the save file. If a fit is saved and then restored, the fit and statistics appear to be completely different.
The "save all" command will not correctly save information for a dataset whose axis (or axes) has been created using the set_axes() function.

On Mac OS X systems, it will cause Sherpa to crash.

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