listpix problem

stevenford17 wrote on Jun 30, 2008

When I try to run "listpix extr001a.0001[350:1024] > spec001a.txt" I get an error message that appears as follows:

"ERROR:cannot open 'spec001a.txt' for writing"

I have checked my permissions and they are set to 777 for the folder. The text file exists in the directory, I simply cannot write to it? Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 30, 2008

If you're going to be overwriting files in IRAF, you need to set the 'clobber' environment variable, by default the system protects from overwrite. E.g., try

cl> reset clobber = yes
cl> listpix .....

-Mike

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stevenford17 wrote on Jun 30, 2008

that did it... thanks

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