FHELP

FHELP is a Host task which provides the user with IRAF like Help pages for FTOOLS. Users of the stand-alone Host version of this task automatically have access to a collection of ASCII formatted help files that are distributed in the ~ftools/ftools/help/ directory (for VMS, ftools:[help]) of FTOOLS. FHELP is a perl script unless perl isn't installed at your site, in which case, FHELP is a compiled FORTRAN program. Type 'fhelp fhelp' to get going. FHELP presents the task help a page at a time. If you are using the Perl version of fhelp, the output will be sent through your system's ``more'' utility (``type/p'' on VMS). If you are using the compiled fhelp, pressing y<return> pages the help file, pressing n<return> quits the display of the help file.

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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