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I'm just getting started with IRAF. As I understand it, Win users must install Cygwin, correct? Where can I find a current introductory tutorial for IRAF? Does it cover pyraf? When I tried to search the Application Forum for cygwin using Forum Search it failed. I see cygwin in the subject of several posts. What is it really searching? Body? Is there an archive of past posts?l

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I'm just getting started with IRAF. As I understand it, Win users must install Cygwin, correct? Where can I find a current introductory tutorial for IRAF? Does it cover pyraf?[/quote:3726ea20f6]The 'Docs' link on the banner bar above has some introductory material, for hands-on exercises see ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/misc/exer211.tar.Z and the associated readme file. These are old but still helpful, you can also Google 'iraf tutorial' and find quite a bit of material. None of this covers PyRAF however, you'll have to see their documentation site for materials.
[quote:3726ea20f6]When I tried to search the Application Forum for cygwin using Forum Search it failed. I see cygwin in the subject of several posts. What is it really searching? Body?Is there an archive of past postsl
[/quote:3726ea20f6]The keyword-search table in the database was corrupted and is currently in the long process of rebuilding itself. Once completed, the entire archive of ~80,000 messages from the last 20+ years will again be searchable. Thanks for pointing this out.-Mike