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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.