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Hi:I recently installed IRAF under Cygwin (Windows XP) including all of the external packages. I can start iraf with 'ecl' or 'cl' and all of the packages are visible. Doing the typical "stsdas" to get into the stsdas hierarchy, however breaks:Warning: no login.cl found in login directoryFurthermore, the help does not work:ecl> help
Cannot open help database file nlocal$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file mscred$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file ctio$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file stsdas$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file vol$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file tables$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file color$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file nmisc$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file dimsum$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file fitsutil$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file spectime$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file finder$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file gemini$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file mxtools$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file ace$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file guiapps$lib/helpdb.mip
dataio - Data format conversion package (RFITS, etc.)
dbms - Database management package (not yet implemented)
images - General image processing package
language - The command language itself
lists - List processing package
local - The template local package
obsolete - Obsolete tasks
noao - The NOAO optical astronomy packages
plot - Plot package
proto - Prototype or interim tasks
softools - Software tools package
system - System utilties package
utilities - Miscellaneous utilities packageAny clues?Cheers,
rys

[quote:69ffbd0cee]I recently installed IRAF under Cygwin (Windows XP) including all of the external packages. I can start iraf with 'ecl' or 'cl' and all of the packages are visible. Doing the typical "stsdas" to get into the stsdas hierarchy, however breaks:Warning: no login.cl found in login directory
[/quote:69ffbd0cee]This particular message you should only see when you first type 'cl', are you saying you see it when loading the stsdas package instead?[quote:69ffbd0cee]Furthermore, the help does not work:ecl> help
Cannot open help database file nlocal$lib/helpdb.mip
Cannot open help database file mscred$lib/helpdb.mip
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[/quote:69ffbd0cee]Packages are defined in the hlib$extern.pkg file and specifically the 'helpdb' string defines a list of help databases to be searched. This message either means thos packages aren't installed, or the definition of e.g. the 'mscred' directory path is wrong (such as missing a trailing '/'). If you edited this file, be sure the last line of the file is the 'keep' statement.-Mike

yes, the param error occurs when trying to access any of the external packages.I have since I installed iraf, logged out and rebooted my machine. Same error occurs.I have not touched the hlib$extern file. -rys

If you didn't edit the extern.pkg file, how/where did you declare stsdas? Note that a 'keep' must also be the last line of a login.cl/loginuser.cl. Is there a similar problem trying to explicitly load the NOAO package? Can you 'lpar stsdas' to see the parameter file?-Mike