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I found some old e-mail advice on using fxcor which indicated that the fxcor within IRAF is not good enough and one should mail Mike Fitzpatrick about getting the double precision package. Is this so? I have a version of fxcor in my newly installed iraf which says: March 1993. I presume that this is not the double precision one. How can I obtain the double precision fxcor?Thanks, Orsola

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Orsola De Marco, Ph.D. Astrophysics Department American Museum of Natural History New York, NY 10024, USA 212 496 3444

Orsola,Apparently those changes never made it back into the master system, until just a few minutes ago anyway. The change was only to the Gaussian fitting to use double-precision. You can get the RVX external package version of this from ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/extern/rvx.tar.Z (see the rvx.readme for installation instructions). Binaries are available for redhat/ssun, otherwise you can build from source or let me know what platform/iraf version you're using.Cheers,
-Mike

Hi Mike, thanks for the quick reply.I use Mac Intel.... while waiting for your reply, I had actually found my way to the ftp site and seen that there was an rvx for the Sun and Redhat... is there any chance that you could build me the MacIntel version? ... If not, I will try and figure it out... Thanks, Orsola

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Orsola De Marco, Ph.D. Astrophysics Department American Museum of Natural History New York, NY 10024, USA 212 496 3444

Done. I moved the binaries/src distribution to the downloads area (https://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/extern)Cheers,
-Mike

Mike, sorry to be thick. I took your tar file for the macintel, unpacked the two files into a /Users/orsola/rvx directory (so now there is a bin.macintel) in that directory containing two files: OBJS.arc.Z and x_rv.e). Then I did:setnev rvx /Users/orsola/rxv and addedreset rvx = /Users/orsola/rvx/
task rvx.pkg = rvx$rvx.cl
printf ("reset helpdb=%s,rvx$lib/helpdb.mip\nkeep\n",
envget("helpdb")) | cl
flprin my login.cl just before the word "keep" as instructed. I do not see anything else I have to do if I am not rebuilding the package, but I cannot run rvx as it says that there is no paramter file.Thanks, Orsola

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Orsola De Marco, Ph.D. Astrophysics Department American Museum of Natural History New York, NY 10024, USA 212 496 3444

Orsola,You need the rvx-src.tar.gz file as well. Even if you're not building from source you need this for the parameter files, package scripts, help pages, etc. Just unpack in the same /Users/orsola/rvx directory, the package declaration already look like it will work.-Mike