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Can anyone help me?
I am using imcopy to make cutouts of a large image. The problem is that if I use a file (e.g. image_in) in the input keyword it can't read the image.
The parameters I am using are:
input = @image_in
output = @image_out
verbose = yes
The "image_in" file is a text file containing one line: image.fits[111:222,333:444]
The "image_out" file is a text file containing one line: ouFile.fits
The message I get is: ERROR: cannot open image (image.fits[111:222,333:444])
What makes it more strange is that if I have "image.fits[111:222,333:444]" as input and "ouFile.fits" as output, i.e. if I don't go through the text files it runs fine. I know I can just skip this step, but the whole thing is part of a script and it is not that easy...
Any help is welcome...

Try first doing:

cl\$this->_split2($m[0]) reset use_new_imt = no

Depending on your iraf version you may be seeing a bug in the new image template code, you example appears to work fine in the latest release. The above command reverts to the old template code.

Thanks, it works now!
Life is good again :-)