IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists
Welcome to the Mac IRAF FAQ. If your question is not here, contact me, and I’ll see if I can help you out or add the question here. I’m always open to suggestions for things for the web site. Use your browser’s find feature, command-F, to search the questions for a word […]
Tags: apple, command line, IRAF, unix, x11 — .Introduction
You really need 3 things to run IRAF: * Apple’s X11 (see the X11 tab at the top) * IRAF (from the download page) * X11IRAF (mainly xgterm, but this isn’t 100% necessary, just wise - also on the download page.)
If you will ever need to compile programs for IRAF; this could be from source for some esoteric […]
Tags: apple, bash, IRAF, unix, x11 — .So, we now have an official word on upcoming changes to IRAF support. The leaked news of changes to IRAF certainly generated some discussion, and some emails. Several questions remain, for me, however in light of this news from NOAO.
It’s certainly understandable that NOAO has in mind to take data reduction at its […]
Tags: community, future, IDL, IRAF, iraf support, iraf.net, unix — .Okay, so you decided to stick with the bash shell. Here’s how to change your path. Edit the .bashrc file in your home directory (or create one) and then add a line like this:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:~/bin:$PATH
My friend and bash fan Colby gave me this tidbit. Something all bash users probably […]
Tags: bash, command line, path, unix — .