To install this package in your local IRAF system, take the following steps: 1) The package is distributed as a tar archive; IRAF is distributed with a tar reader. The tar archive may be obtained by magnetic tape or anonymous ftp. For magnetic tape go to step [2] and when reading the tar archive simply mount the tape and use the tape device name for the archive name in step [4]. To obtain the package via ftp (assuming a UNIX computer): % ftp cfa-ftp.harvard.edu login: anonymous password: [your user name] ftp> cd pub/iraf ftp> get wcstools-3.8.8.iraf.readme ftp> binary ftp> get wcstools-3.8.8.iraf.tar.gz ftp> quit % ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 mink xxxx xxx xx xx:xx wcstools-3.8.8.iraf.readme -rw-r--r-- 1 mink xxxxxx xxx xx xx:xx wcstools-3.8.8.iraf.tar.gz % 2) Create a directory to contain the WCSTools external package files. This directory should be outside the IRAF directory tree and must be owned by the IRAF account. In the following examples, this root directory is named /local/wcstools/. Make the appropriate file name substitutions for your site. 3) Log in as IRAF and edit the extern.pkg file in the hlib directory to define the package to the CL. From the IRAF account, outside the CL, you can move to this directory with the command: % cd $hlib Define the environment variable rvsao to be the pathname to the rvsao root directory. UNIX pathnames must be terminated with a '/'. Edit extern.pkg to include: reset wcstools = /wcstools-3.8.8/ task wcstools.pkg = wcstools$wcstools.cl Near the end of the hlib$extern.pkg file, update the definition of helpdb so it includes the rvsao help database, copying the syntax already used in the string. Add this line before the line containing a closing quote: ,wcstools$lib/helpdb.mip\ 4) Add to hlib$clpackage.men the package description: wcstools - Utilities to manipulate FITS and IRAF image WCS 5) Unpack the tar file into the WCSTOOLS root directory. On a UNIX system, where ftpdir is the pathname of the directory into which the package was ftp'ed and irafpkg is the directory below which you wish to install wcstools % cd $irafpkg % cd .. % gzcat $ftpdir/wcstools-3.8.8.iraf.tar.gz | tar xvf - The archive file can be deleted once the package has been successfully installed. 6) If you already have WCSTools installed somewhere else on your system, simply cd to the new wcstools directory and ln -s bin.[arch] for example ln -s /usr/local/bin bin.solaris and skip to step 9. Type "cl" or "ecl" to log in to IRAF, and "WCStools" to get the package. If you don't already have WCSTools installed on your system, continue. 7) Type "cl" or "ecl" to log in to IRAF, cd wcstools to get to the wcstools package directory. 8) To put compiled executables in the appropriate binary directory, type ecl> mkpkg for the architecture of the computer you are using For Solaris, for example, ecl> mkpkg ssun or Red Hat Linux ecl> mkpkg redhat 9) Make the package by typing ecl> mkpkg update If you want to support multiple architectures from the same IRAF, type ecl> mkpkg clean ecl> mkpkg ecl> mkpkg update Report any compilation errors to dmink@cfa.harvard.edu 10) Type ecl> wcstools to load the package. 11) Type ecl> help wcstools to list all of the tasks available with brief descriptions. Some names have been modified to avoid clashes with commonly used IRAF tasks, such as delhead to dhead. 12) Help files only exist for some of the tasks. Typing a WCSTools task name with no arguments almost always generates a list of possible command line arguments with their descriptions. The task name followed by "help" *always* lists the options, and the task name followed by "version" lists the version number and date. Almost-up-to-date hypertext help with lots of examples is available on the World Wide Web at http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools