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This document describes changes that will affect users who migrate from \s-1XPA\s0 1.0 to \s-1XPA\s0 2.0.

There have been a few changes that affect users who upgrade \s-1XPA\s0 from version 1.0 to version 2.0. These changes are detailed below.

• \s-1XPA\s0 commands no longer have a resolver routine (this is open to negotiations, but we decided the idea was dumb). For the SAOtng program, this means that you must explicitly specify the access point, i.e.,:

    cat foo.fits | xpaset SAOtng fits
  

  instead of: cat foo.fits | xpaset SAOtng

• By default, xpaset, xpaget, etc. now wait for the server callback to complete; i.e., the old \-W is implied (and the switch is ignored). This allows support for better error handling. If you want xpaset, etc. to return before the callback is complete, use \-n switch: echo "file foo.fits" | xpaset \-n SAOtng

• The old \-w switch in xpaset and xpaget is no longer necessary (and is ignored), since you can have more than one process communicating with an xpa access point at one time.

• The new \-p switch on xpaset means you need not read from stdout: xpaset \-p SAOtng colormap I8 will send the paramlist to the SAOtng callback without reading from stdin.

See xpa(7) for a list of \s-1XPA\s0 help pages