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Developer's Guide

This section provides an overview of the steps needed to add an FTOOLS task module or an entire package to the FTOOLS installation. The material covered exists in the examples package under the examples/ directory. This directory/package has been created to give developers a set of ``templates'' to work from. A basic understanding of Unix and programming in FORTRAN and C is assumed. For the more ambitious, an understand of lexical analyzers such as lex and flex and parsers such as yacc and bison are recommended. Throughout this document it is assumed that the FTOOLS package is installed in an account named ftools with a user home directory named ~ftools/.

• FTOOLS Software Style
• Package Directory Structure
• Task Design
• Task Development
• Task Integration
  • IRAF Task Integration
  • Host Task Integration
• General Task Development
• Sub-package Development

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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