gdisplay errors

Karen Kwitter wrote on Dec 07, 2009

Hi,
We are having difficulty on 2 separate computers with gdisplay, as we are starting our reductions of GMOS longslit data. We both have the latest scisoft on MacOsX 10.5:

We are working with raw data at the moment, if that's relevant.

1. I cannot get gdisplay to work - when I try, I get the following error:

ERROR: parameter 'missing' not found
called as: 'hselect (images=N20091025S0037.fits[1], fields=DETSEC, expr=yes)'
"hselect (l_image//"["//str(n_i)//"]", l_key_detsec, yes) | scan (l_d ..."
line 332: gmos$gdisplay.cl
called as: 'gdisplay ()'
(I hope that's typed right - can't get %$#^& X11 to paste into any other app)

2. On the other computer with the same version of OS X and IRAF, gdisplay tries to work, but displays trash. We have stdimage=imtgmos, and tried all the options, 2, 4, 8, but none works.

Both of these computers can display image extensions properly using display,e.g., *.fits[1]

Thanks very much,
Karen

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Dec 07, 2009

Hi Karen,

1) Do an "unlearn hselect", the 'missing' parameter is new.

2) Check that you have a /usr/local/lib/imtoolrc file and that it contains a config for 'imtgmos'. This should be a link to $iraf/dev/imtoolrc but might not have been installed by SciSoft. If it is missing, you can copy the $iraf/dev/imtoolrc file to ".imtoolrc" in your unix login directory and restart the display server.

-Mike

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Karen Kwitter wrote on Dec 07, 2009

Mike-

Thanks so much- that did the trick!

Cheers,
Karen

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