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dispaxis in apall task

amalmirando wrote on Feb 26, 2010

hi,
i'm using IRAF version V 2.14 and currently going through exercises in extracting spectrums.in the tutorial in extracting spectrums, in apall task they have mentioned about a dispaxis task.but in the version i use,no such task exist....since my data are in the horizontal axis how do i carry out extraction?

amal mirando.

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Feb 26, 2010

The 'dispaxis' is a package parameter, i.e. do an "epar apextract" to set it.

-Mike

amalmirando wrote on Feb 26, 2010

thanks a lot for the quick reply. i tried epar apextract but it does not exist.could you please elaborate more on this issue.

-Amal Mirando

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Feb 26, 2010

Type 'twodspec' to be sure the TWODSPEC package is loaded (you'll need to similarly type 'apextract' to load that package). The epar command is issued from the CL prompt.

Last post on Feb 26, 2010