hello everyone,

my iraf is installed on a pc running slackware 11. i was trying to use the command implot sugested on second exercise of tutorials and when i execute the command lots of codes appear, the terminal stops and nothing happens to ds9. could somebody help me please

thanks everybody

See earlier posts such as http://iraf.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=86437&highlight=garbage

-Mike

Mike,

Thank you for the helping.
But I've tried to do the MKIRAF procedure and I've got no progress, the implot command is still doing the lots of codes.
My ds9 window was downloaded from http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/ in linux, not linux64.
I dont know if my IRAF is xterm or xgterm, could you help me with it.

Anyway, thank you again.

Xterm or XGterm generally need to be started explicitly. If you used the terminal icon at the botton of the window it's probably a gnome-terminal or somesuch which doesn't support graphics. In one of those windows, type 'xterm &' to bring up an XTerm window, do a 'mkiraf' to recreate the login.cl and answer 'xterm' to the terminal type prompt. Then login and plot. For XGterm the process is the same but you'd start the window and answer the prompt with 'xgterm' instead.

-Mike

Mike,

I've tried to do exactly as you said. Open a terminal konsole, type 'xterm &', a white window was opened, then 'mkiraf', initialize uparm(y|n): 'y', 'xterm'. Then I logged in with 'cl' and ' cd exercises/phot', as it's on tutorials, 'ls'. In other terminal, I did again 'xterm &' and then ' ds9 '. In first one, 'display m92006 1', it opens correctly. But when I use 'implot m92006', in the white xterm window, the lots of codes still appear.

I'm thinking the problem is in the installation.

Please, forgive me for my incompetence.

Getulio

Mike,

I was guessing that the problem is about the filesystem of my linux which is REISERFS. Do you agree?

Getulio

I don't think the filesystem has anything to do with it. In the xterm window where you've logged into the CL, what does "show stdgraph" return before you type implot? Do you see just garbage characters or is there some bit of code before the garbage that looks like Tcl (indicating IRAF thinks you're in an xgterm window)? Does doing a "stty xterm" before the IMPLOT do anything different?

Lastly, are you sure the xterm is an xterm and not some alias? Do you see the normal xterm menus when holding down the Ctrl key and clicking one of the mouse buttons?

-Mike