Bug in the mkiraf script ?

Guest wrote on Nov 29, 2005

Hello,

I think I might have found a bug in the mkiraf script. When attempting
to run it on my Mandriva 2006-based system, the following message
appears :

son ~ $ mkiraf
Illegal variable name.

(I have installed V2.12.2 recently, and my csh seems to be in fact
tcsh-6.14-1mdk)

I have investigated this problem and found that it comes from line 9 :

set imdir = "HDR$"

I note that in a previous release of iraf (2.11.3) which is still
installed on another system here, this line is

set imdir = "$HDR"

.. which sets imdir's value to "", as I understand it, because there is
no shell variable named $HDR at this point ! I remember I had to set the
imdir variable manually in my loginuser.cl file.

Presently, my workaround is to replace line 9 by

set imdir = ""

and then edit the login.cl file.

I hope this will be useful, I would be pleased to give further
precisions if needed.

Thank you for your work on iraf,

--
Frédéric Meynadier, LERMA - Observatoire de Paris

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