On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:19 am, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > Ask Andrew, he thinks that IRAF is the coolest. ;) > > Hmm, that's a bit much to say. I have yet to get an astronomer to > actually demonstrate the system for me. I am, however, steadily becoming > convinced that it is a very well thought out treatment of the > requirements it was designed to meet.
Ya, it is. When scientists need something, often they just write there own stuff. One of the professors (Eric Hintz) has actually written programs to work inside IRAF for some of the data reduction procedures. You just have to load it in your login.cl And I've written code is C to fire a laser based on a GPS clock and take a bunch of readings while it was firing. Worked great. I might be down there in June or July if you would really like a demo. Although, what I do with IRAF is a small part of everything it can do. -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
