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From: ipac3!rick (Rick Ebert)
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Subject: IRAF @ IPAC    [up]
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Steve,

The news is mostly good:  IRAF is up at IPAC!  The blessed event
occurred at 11:44:46 PST on 26 Feb.  The new addition weighed in at
a little over 46Mb.

All of our trouble seems to have been related to an obstinate fortran
optimizer.  Once I figured out how to turn off that -O flag everywhere
in IRAF's mkpkg, it all fell into place. (As promised, a list of
files that gave our optimizer indigestion follows, but I'm convinced
the problem is with some northern California compiler writers and not
with IRAF.)

I did run into a problem quite quickly though.  I managed to make the
help data base by doing this:

cl> softools
so> mkhelpdb

IRAF proceeded to produce lots of stuff.
With many of the "help" requests that I tried the formatted manual
page printed on the screen as expected, followed by a listing of
what appeared to an unformatted copy of the same help file (there
were lots of .xx commands at the beginning of lines).  Once this
starts to print out, a response of "n" to "More?" causes the whole
of iraf to crash.  If I coax it with an interupt I receive the message,

ERROR: subprocess is hung: process should be killed

wait several seconds and interupt again, then I'm back in the csh
(this is probably our unix doing houskeeping).

Not a very well documented bug, but I wanted to get it to you
right away.  The "help" is all I have to learn IRAF! (Sob, poor me).

Rick Ebert, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
Cal Tech   MS 100/22, Pasadena, CA 91125

Ma Bell: 818-584-2963 (MWF)
UUCP: ipac3!rick

"Problem" files:

./sys/fio/fwtacc.x
./pkg/system/help/helpdb.x
./pkg/system/help/prfile.x
./pkg/system/directory.x
./pkg/system/isdir.x
./pkg/onedspec/identify/isdir.x
./pkg/system/lprint.x
./pkg/system/page.x
./pkg/xtools/isdirectory.x
./pkg/dataio/imtext/rt_rwpix.x
./pkg/dataio/cyber/rrcopy/rc_rheader.x
./pkg/dataio/cyber/rrcopy/read_rcopy.x
./pkg/dataio/cyber/t_ridsfile.x
./pkg/dataio/cyber/read_dumpf.x
./pkg/dataio/cyber/read_pft.x
./pkg/images/geometry/geogmap.x
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