mscred/zerocombine problem

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Dear Iraf Gurus,

I'm running into a problem in the mscred package. I'm trying to
run the zerocombine task to stack a set of bias frames in MEF format,
and am getting the error message:

ERROR on line 46: parameter 'plfile' not found.

First I tried a complete reinstallation of the mscred package this
morning, but that did not help (same error). I tried unlearning the
full
mscred package - same error. Then I tried rooting through the source
code and found a call to 'coutput' in sflatcombine.cl with this
parameter
in the command line, but coutput (a hidden call to combine) does not
use this parameter anymore. The other place I found plfile was in a
call to mscstack within mscdither.cl. Although I don't see how either
of
these would affect zerocombine (which ultimately calls combine), I tried
editing these two files and recompiling mscred from source, but I still
get
the same error message. I've been through the bug.log and don't
see anything similar. I'm stumped, any ideas?

These are the two files I tried editing:

/iraf/extern/mscred/src/mscdither.cl
/iraf/extern/mscred/src/ccdred/sflatcombine.cl

and my call to zerocombine looks like this:

unlearn zerocombine
zerocombine.reject='crreject'
zerocombine.ccdtype="" ; zerocombine.process=yes
zerocombine.nlow=1
zerocombine.rdnoise="!RDNOISE" ; zerocombine.gain="!GAIN"
zerocombine.process=no
zerocombine FFdata/@zero.lis out=Zero

I'm running on a newer P4 machine, <2 years old, with a standard
RHEL4 and Iraf 2.11.2-EXPORT (not the ecl beta) installation. But I am
fairly new to using the mscred package. Thanks for your help in this
matter.

Best regards, Dave.
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