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Host Task Integration

Task integration under the Host version requires making a change to the Makefile found in the ~ftools/ftools/heasarc/host/ directory. Move to this directory and edit the Makefile file. Find the TASKS macro definition near the top of this file and append fdummyftool to the list of tasks. If you need to start a new line, be sure to append the previous line with the \ character. Save the changes and exit the editor. Assuming that the Host version has already been built, simply give this make command:

>make fdummyftool

This will build only the fdummyftool task if all the files in the fdummyftool subdirectory are without error. You will have to issue a rehash command to make this new task appear in the Host version for the ftools account under Unix.

For VMS, edit the make.com in the sub-package host directory and add your new task to the file:

$set def ftools:[heasarc.src.fdummyftool]

$@make

$!

FTOOLS HELP DESK

If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (http://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.

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