imal2 does not work

elenamanjavacas wrote on Nov 07, 2010

Hi everyone,

I have recently started to use IRAF, and I have found two problems (right now):

The first one is that I need to use "tep.cl" so I tipe: cl < /home/user/iraf/clscripts/tep.cl. It works but there is an error: "Unable to open parameter file `uparm$ccdpyexee.par'. Why is this?

The second one is that I need to use imal2, but when I tipe: "epar imal2" IRAF says:
ERROR: task `imal2' not found
called as: `eparam (imal2)'

Does anybody know anything about these problems? :cry:

Many thanks,

Elena.

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Nov 07, 2010

The first one is that I need to use "tep.cl" so I tipe: cl < /home/user/iraf/clscripts/tep.cl. It works but there is an error: "Unable to open parameter file `uparm$ccdpyexee.par'. Why is this?

If this is a CL procedure script then the usual way to run it would be to declare it in IRAF as a task, e.g.

cl> task tep = /path/tep.cl

Given your second question I'm guessing the tep.cl is actually a package loading script. The error message comes because IRAF is trying to save parameters, but you don't have a 'uparm' directory defined. This can sometimes be ignored, but if tep.cl really is a package script then it won't do anything *unless* declared as a task anyway.

The second one is that I need to use imal2, but when I tipe: "epar imal2" IRAF says:
ERROR: task `imal2' not found
called as: `eparam (imal2)'

A quick Google search shows IMAL2 is a task in VAPHOT package, it is not part of the core system. From the description of the VAPHOT package I found:

The programs ’vaphot’, ’apcalc’ and associated routines are available as part of the software distribution for the TEPproject, at ftp://ftp.iac.es/pub/hdeeg/tep_dist

You'll need to install this external package before being able to use the task.[/quote]

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