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What You Need to Have a Completed FTOOL

  • Source Code for New Task (This should, naturally, compile cleanly)
  • Makefile (use one from the latest development version as a template since these can change)
  • yourtask.hlp (IRAF help page in IRAF format)
  • yourtask.txt (HOST help page in ASCII format/create with IRAF see below)
  • parameter file with "distribution" values for defaults
  • a one line description of the task for the summary help pages
Place all of the above in a tar file mirroring the ftools directory structure and send mail to ftoolshelp@olegacy.gsfc.nasa.gov telling us where to get it.

How to make the yourtask.txt file from the IRAF file:

  1. Enter the IRAF package 'system'
  2. cd to the directory with yourtask.hlp
  3. type: 
    help yourtask.hlp fi+ page=no device="text" > yourtask.txt
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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