iraf on the laptop

[Mike Potter]

I'm trying to install iraf on my spiffy new hp laptop computer. I've installed the default configuration for cygwin, and have downloaded and unpacked all of the binaries, etc. When I run "install" the program asks me for the name of the new root iraf directory - whcih it has correctly guessed. I hit return to accept the default and the program crashes saying "if: Expression Syntax" I've looked at the code a bit and its not obvious to me what is wrong. A few more clues:

1) if I say "q" the program exits as it should
2) if I give a non-existant file name the program tells me so and returns to the top of the loop.
3) if I press "q" or type "help" the program prints a message then crashes with the following:

set: Syntax Error.

Am I supposed to run this stuff using a different shell? The prompt character is a dollar sign - not sure that really means anything.

Any and all suggestions and help are appreciated!

Mike Potter

[fitz]

Be sure you have the 'tcsh' installed, i.e. under the 'Shells' menu of the Cygwin setup.exe or look for a /bin/csh on the machine. You may be executing using the bash shell.

-Mike

[Mike Potter]

Thanks Mike:

It looks like the problem was that my user name (on my machine) has a blank in it. I created a new account without the blank and was able to get iraf to install. I still haven't gotten iraf to run as when I type "cl" I get a message saying:

Command not found: /iraf/iraf/bin.linux/ecl.e

Shouldn't it point to /iraf/iraf/bin.cygwin/ecl.e? I'm using some .bashrc lines that I downladed from Chris Burke's site - prehaps that's the problem?

Thanks again for your assistance!
Mike Potter

[fitz]

The "Burke Port", as we shall now call it , didn't create a new architecture name but instead pointed everything to 'linux' as the name. The bashrc file should otherwise be correct, just edit the references to the architecture name to use 'cygwin'.

-Mike

P.S. I'll add spaces-in-names to the list of things to check for the next update, thanks for mentioning it.