23 JUNE 2013:

This "minimousse" directory contains IDL programs useful in the IDL
Tutorial but which are NOT distributed as part of the "IDL Astronomy
User's Library."  These are selected from the larger set of MOUSSE
routines written by the UIT Team (GSFC).

Redundant, obsolete, or overly specialized routines originally in the
2003 "minimousse" distribution have been deleted.  All included
routines are unchanged from their earlier distributions.

The versions used are from 

   http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/contrib/landsman/mousse

Also included are the MAN.PRO and MPBASIC.PRO routines, written by
Wayne Landsman but no longer available from the Astronomy User's
Library. These will work in the simple mode described in the "Guide to
IDL for Astronomers" and the IDL Tutorial to print header information
on non-intrinsic IDL programs as long as the programs are in your IDL
path.  I don't recommend trying to use the other options in the
MAN.PRO routine.

TVDBASE.PRO is included as an example of how to use the IDL database
system designed by Don Lindler and Landsman, if it is installed on
your server, to display information on screen.

For completeness, the tarfile for the 2003 version of "minimousse" is
also included here.  Use 2003 routines not in the 2013 distribution
judiciously.