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Dear all,I have iraf-2.14 on OpenSuSE 10.2.
I'm using STANDARD in NOAO.ONEDSPEC with the following
epar, which usually worked in older iraf versions (2.12): input = "hr4554e" Input image file root name
output = "std_hr" Output flux file (used by SENSFUNC)
star_name = "hr4554" Star name in calibration list
airmass = 1.0729 Airmass
exptime = 1. Exposure time (seconds)
mag = Magnitude of star
magband = Magnitude type
teff = Effective temperature or spectral type
answer = "no" (no|yes|NO|YES|NO!|YES!)
(samestar = yes) Same star in all apertures?
(beam_switch = no) Beam switch spectra?
(apertures = "") Aperture selection list
(bandwidth = 10.) Bandpass widths
(bandsep = 10.) Bandpass separation
(fnuzero = 3.6800000000000E-20) Absolute flux zero point
(extinction = "onedstds$kpnoextinct.dat") Extinction file
(caldir = " ") Directory containing calibration data
(observatory = "apo") Observatory for data
(interact = yes) Graphic interaction to define new bandpasses
(graphics = "stdgraph") Graphics output device
(cursor = "") Graphics cursor input
(mode = "ql") My calibration data (hr4554.dat) are in the directory where I'm working,
so that caldir = " ". By specifying star_name = "hr4554", IRAF looks
for the file hr4554.dat. In my case, it says that it can not find the file
".dat", as if it can not attach the name hr4554 to ".dat"....
The same error occurs when I specify the full path of the directory
I'm using: /home/pasquali/tmp/ngc4371/.
I do have in this directory the file standards.men where the names of the
standard stars are written down.
At this point I do not quite understand what is wrong....Does anybody have a clue?
Thank you in advance for your help.Ulrich Hiller
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie
Koenigstuhl 17
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
phone +49 6221 528238
fax +49 6221 528246
e-mail hiller@mpia.de

One thing I notice is that you specify the caldir as " " instead of "" (i.e. a space between the quotes instead of a null string specified by two double-quotes). I don't quite understand why using the full pathname wouldn't work unless there was e.g. a space following the path as well.-Mike