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I have installed IRAF 2.11.3, with patches 3a & 3b, on the systems
that will soon make up the new Astrophysics Center of Excellence
at JPL. They are Sun Blade workstations, running Solaris 8, and
the network is centered on a Sun Enterprise 2000 server. I did
the installation on the server, and then on all of the workstations.
The install script did not report any errors (I installed the
binaries, and did not build from source code).I went through the "Preliminary Test Procedure" for IRAF, and it
all worked until I got to implot. The command "implot image.short"
did not produce a plot, but filled the window with binary junk,
and disabling it (the same thing happens in OpenWindows or in the
Common Desktop Environment).I don't know where to look for the problem. The install log is
attached below. It appears to have made the imtool links, and
devices (install did not complain, and I looked to see they were
there).-----------------------------------------------------------------
Timothy J. ThompsonNASA/JPL Astrophysics Center of Excellence
Voice: (818) 354-8698 FAX: (818) 354-0966
4800 Oak Grove Drive; Pasadena, CA 91109-8099
Mail Stop 183-501
Timothy.J.Thompson@jpl.nasa.gov

Hi Tim,
Garbage characters on the screen when you try to plot is always the
result of a mis-match between the type of terminal you are using, and the
type of terminal you told IRAF you were using. The terminal type is set
when you first do a MKIRAF command, or on the command line with "stty xgterm",
but this terminal type must agree with the kind of window you are actually
using. If you are using an xterm window instead of xgterm, you'll need to
change the terminal setting in iraf so they agree. Some windows (especially
the terminal windows you can open on the default linux desktop icons, or
Sun 'cmdtool' or 'shelltool' windows) don't support graphics at all and
cannot be used.
You should be using either an Xterm window (and setting in IRAF) or
an XGterm window. A "show stdgraph" in the CL will tell what the current
setting is, and "stty xterm" or "stty xgterm" will reset it as needed.
Note that XGterm is part of the X11IRAF tools and needs to be installed
separately from the rest of IRAF.
Hope this helps, feel free to write back if you still have problems
or questions.Regards,
Mike Fitzpatrick