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FTOOLS: Parameter File Manipulation Tasks (xpiutils)

This subpackage of FTOOLS contains tasks for manipulating the parameter file for an ftools task.

The following tasks were released in the latest distribution of the HEASARC's FTOOLS package. Each task is hyperlinked to the help file distributed with the task. The same information can be obtained while running FTOOLS by typing the command fhelp {taskname}.

Parameter File Tasks

pconfig
Configure parameter files to user defaults
pget
Get one or more parameters in an IRAF-style parameter file.
plist
List parameters from one or more IRAF-style parameter files
pquery
Get the value of a parameter in an IRAF-style parameter file, with possible prompting.
punlearn
Copy a fresh copy of the parameter file from the system.
pset
Set one or more parameters in an IRAF-style parameter file.
FTOOLS HELP DESK

If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]:

Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.