RJTOOLS is a package of IRAF CL scripts and a few auxilliary compiled tasks, that I developed over the years while at the Kapteyn Laboratory, CfA, ESA's ESTEC and presently at ASU, and were sufficiently useful to me to think that they might be of more general use. About half of them are low-level tasks, meant to be used as part of scripts. Many of these tasks return the result of their action as task parameters (and sometimes, optionally, to the standard output and/or a text log file as well). This effectively allows easy nesting of tasks and building quite complex scripts (rather than having to resort to programming directly in SPP, Fortran or C), and surpasses the capabilities of using pipes to pass the output of one task to the input of another.
The tasks are transparantly grouped into several sub-packages and were tested under IRAF v2.11.3--v2.12.2, but if you find any bugs or if you improved any of these tasks I would like to hear from you.
Finally, this code is provided as is and no suitability for any purpose, existing or future, is claimed nor implied, nor will any liability for the use or mis-use of this product ever be accepted be neither the author nor any of his former, current or future employers. Reselling for profit or hiding or attempting to hide the source code, or patenting or attempting to patent any of the code, or use for military purposes is strictly forbidden. Otherwise, and whereever this blurb is unclear, incomplete, untenable or plain nonsense, the provisions of the GNU General Public License will apply to this product. Share and Enjoy!
Rolf A. Jansen <Rolf.Jansen@asu.edu>
Tempe AZ, Aug 25 2004
RELEASE INFORMATION ============================================================================= Tue Aug 11 18:00:00 MST 2003 --> version = 11Aug2003 Initial public version for IRAF v2.12.1 (rjtools_v2.12) (RAJ). Wed Dec 10 18:00:00 MST 2003 --> version = 10Dec2003 Release including 'tvtools/ctrcoo.cl' and updated man pages and 'apropos' database. (RAJ). Tue Aug 25 18:00:00 MST 2004 --> version = 25Aug2004 Release including 'markall'/'tvmarkall' and 'imregister', with updated 'help' pages and 'apropos' database (RAJ). Sun Mar 27 18:00:00 MST 2005 --> version = 27Mar2005 Minor release that adds 'markstds' to 25Aug2004 release (RAJ). Thu Jun 16 18:00:00 MST 2005 --> version = 16Jun2005 Fix of bug in version-check in 'imgstat' (RAJ). Thu Jul 12 18:00:00 MST 2007 --> version = 12Jul2007 Fixed bug in 'xdisplay', added parameters and/or functionality to 'imregister' and 'markall'; new RHE4.3 and MacOS10.4[Intel] binaries for task 'arg'; updated 'help' pages. (RAJ). INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ============================================================================= Installation of this external package consists of obtaining a compressed tar archive, unpacking it, and telling IRAF about its existence. On some platforms, if no pre-compiled binary is available, you may need to compile the source code of task 'arg'. The package may be installed for either a site or as a personal installation. [1] The package is distributed as a gzip-compressed tar archive with both all scripts, source code and, for select host architectures, binaries of task 'arg'. Note that IRAF includes a tar reader. The most recent version (see Release Information above) of the compressed tar archive may be obtained via the web from URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~rjansen/iraf/rjtools_2.12_version.tgz Download (binary mode) and save the file to disk to /iraf/extern/ for a site installation, or to (a subdirectory of) your IRAF home direc- tory for a personal installation. For a site installation, you must now login as the 'iraf' user and go to /iraf/extern/. [2a] To extract all package files from the tar archive using 'rtar': cl> !(g)unzip rjtools_2.12_version.tgz (GNU: gunzip, otherwise: unzip) cl> softools so> rtar -xrf rjtools_2.12_version.tar so> bye On some systems, an error message will appear ("Copy 'bin.generic' to './bin fails") which can be ignored. [2b] Alternatively, (GNU) tar may be used to extract the source files: % gtar -xvpzf rjtools_2.12_version.tgz (Linux) or: % (g)unzip rjtools_2.12_version.tgz (Unix) % (g)tar xvpf rjtools_2.12_version.tar Sites should leave the symbolic link 'bin' in the package root directory pointing to 'bin.generic', but can delete any of the bin.arch directories that won't be used. If there is no binary directory for the system you are installing, create it now. The tar file can be deleted after successfully unpacking 'rjtools' . [3] Next, tell IRAF about the existence of 'rjtools' . [site installation] If this is a site installation, edit hlib$extern.pkg : % cd $hlib % vi extern.pkg (or use 'emacs' instead of 'vi') Define the environment variable rjtools to be the pathname to the 'rjtools' package root directory. Unix pathnames MUST be terminated with a '/'. Edit extern.pkg to include the following lines: reset rjtools = /path/rjtools_2.12/ task rjtools.pkg = rjtools$rjtools.cl where "path" is the full directory path to where you unpacked the tar archive (e.g., /iraf/extern/). Near the end of the extern.pkg file, update the definition of helpdb so it includes the 'rjtools' help database, copying the syntax already used in the string. Add this line before the line containing a closing quote: ,rjtools$lib/helpdb.mip\ In order for 'rjtools' tasks to be found by task 'apropos', you might consider appending the look-up table rjtools$lib/apropos.db to either of the following two files (depending on whether and where the STSDAS package is installed on your system): /iraf/extern/stsdas_version/lib/apropos.db /iraf/iraf/local/apropos.db.local For example: cl> type rjtools$lib/apropos.db dev=txt >> stsdas$/lib/apropos.db or: % cd /iraf/extern % cat rjtools_2.12/lib/apropos.db >> stsdas_4.3/lib/apropos.db [personal installation] If you are installing the 'rjtools' for personal use, tell IRAF about the package via your login.cl or loginuser.cl file. Somewhere before the final "keep" statement, insert: reset rjtools = /local_path/rjtools_2.12/ task rjtools.pkg = rjtools$rjtools.cl printf ("reset helpdb=%s,rjtools$lib/helpdb.mip\nkeep\n", envget("helpdb")) | cl flpr [4] Should you need to (re)compile the 'arg' source code, then you need to enter the src subdirectory of rjtools_2.12 and run C-shell script arg_iraf.install after defining the IRAFARCH environment variable: cl> show arch .redhat <&mdash for example Then the IRAFARCH environment variable should be set to redhat (no leading period!): % setenv IRAFARCH redhat (csh or tcsh) % export IRAFARCH=redhat (bash) % cd rjtools_2.12/src or: cl> cd rjtools$src/ % ./arg_iraf.install cl> !arg_iraf.install This will try to determine the current directory path (used to link the Unix 'man' page for 'arg' ), compile the source code, and install executable 'arg' in the appropriate 'bin.arch' directory. You may be prompted for a Fortran77 compiler, if neither 'f77' nor 'g77' is found automatically on your system. When recompiling, allow the script to overwrite the pre-packaged executable if prompted. Check for errors. If the executable is not moved to the correct binary subdirectory, then the step to define the path and/or architecture for the package was not done correctly. This should complete the installation. Task 'sysinfo' requires a "username" to be defined. To do so, add a line to the default "login.cl" file, e.g., directly following the line defining the 'userid' (in fact, it may be a copy of that line): set userid = "jdoh" set username = "John/Jane D'Oh" You can now start up IRAF, load the package and begin testing and using it. ================================ R.A. Jansen ================================