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Release Notes for version 1.0
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Release date - 13 June 2006

Features:
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VOConvert, earlier called conVOT, is a tool for converting files from one format to another.
It supports following file format conversions:
1) ASCII to VOTable                                               
2) FITS to VOTable 
3) VOTable to ASCII.                      
Two or more files belonging to a specific format can be converted into other format at the same time.
These features are supported both via the GUI and the command line interface. Please refer to the
user guide for the same.

System Requirements:
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Java Runtime Environment (1.4.2 or above)




Release Notes for version 0.9
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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.

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.