imhist issues

Gregory Feiden wrote on Jun 21, 2007

Hi,

I have recently installed iraf on my home computer, running Fedora Core 6, and thus far everything seems to work except for imhist. When I run:

cl> imhist <file>

it prints a long string of nonsense characters. I've installed the patch, x11iraf, and the update for xgterm. Any suggestions?

Greg

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 21, 2007

Check your terminal type, i.e. if you use XGTerm then do a new MKIRAF and say 'xgterm' when asked for the type or do a "cl> stty xgterm ; gflush" and run it again. Note rxvt, gnome-terminal, etc cannot be used for graphics, but somehow the terminal you're using is not the one you told IRAF you are using.

-Mike

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Gregory Feiden wrote on Jun 21, 2007

Mike,

I checked the terminal type, and I'm using xterm. So i ran mkiraf again and told it to set to xterm. I then proceeded to run cl and it still wanted to set to xgterm. I then edited the login.cl file so that it set to xterm instead of xgterm on startup. Still, nothing changed, imhist still won't cooperate. Is there a way to check what terminal IRAF thinks I should be using?

Greg

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Gregory Feiden wrote on Jun 21, 2007

Mike,

I just found the issue, it was the termianl I was running cl in. I just called xterm and then tried imhist and it worked! Thanks for the advice!

Greg

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