ERROR: task ‘mscred’ has no param file

BruceT wrote on May 06, 2010

I have installed mscred per the instructions on a macintel machine. The external.pkg file has been edited as follows:

reset mscred = /usr/local/iraf/extern/mscred/
reset mscdb = /usr/local/iraf/extern/mscdb/
task mscred.pkg = mscred$mscred.cl

The binaries from mscred-bin.macintel.tgz were installed in /usr/local/iraf/extern/mscred/bin.macintel

After the installation I did a new mkiraf and the login.cl file contains

set uparm = "home$uparm/"

which points to the uparm directory in the users iraf directory.

I did not install the mscdb files.

All of this seems correct. What have I done wrong?

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on May 06, 2010

Did you install the mscred sources (i.e. mscred-src.tar.gz)? Even if you use the pre-built binaries these are needed for things like the parameter files, helps pages, etc.

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BruceT wrote on May 06, 2010

Thanks fitz, that was the problem.

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