epar in-list not functioning

Guest wrote on May 24, 2007

Hello,
When editing the epar fields of "ccmap" and "cctran" to use the pointers "@filename" the field for "database" does not take the input.

 (I'm not sure how much info to give here, bare with me)
IRAF version 2.12.2

eg.
ccmap epar file - 
input   =                         @inlist  The input coordinate files
database=                  @outlist  The output database file
(solutio=                  @solnlist) The database plate solution names

the file inlist contains a file path "../Field#/c#/filename" and when running ccmap and cctran the programs  follow the path to the correct file.

however for the "database" line does not follow the path in outlist instead a file called @outlist is created in the working directory.

this also occurs for cctran and imexam (the logfile line will also not take the input "@filename")

Is there a different flag that needs to be used instead of the "@"? or does this feature not work for those lines because a file is being created?

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated,

Thank you,
~Kyle 

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on May 24, 2007

The 'database' parameter is expected to be just a filename, not an @list. In general the plural 'files' or 'images' is used in the help page descriptions of parameters that take a list. The database file will be opened for appending so there is no need to specify more than one file.

-Mike

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