HPUX/IRAF Installation Guide

3. System Checkout

The basic IRAF system should be usable once the files have been restored to disk, the binaries have been configured or generated, and the install script has been run. To verify that the basic system comes up and runs successfully, login as iraf and startup the CL (IRAF command language) from the iraf account. You should be able to login as IRAF and type "cl" to start IRAF, using the login files which come with the distributed system.

% login iraf
% cl

To more thoroughly test the installation it is a good idea to test IRAF from a user account. To do this you login to a user account and run the mkiraf task to set up the IRAF login files. This will create or initialize the user's uparm (user parameter) directory, and create a new login.cl file. It may also be desirable to edit the user's .login file to modify the way the environment variable IRAFARCH is defined. This variable, required for software development but optional for merely using IRAF, must be set to the name of the desired machine architecture, in this case hp700.

% mkiraf
Initialize uparm? (y|n): y
Terminal types: xterm,gterm,vt640,vt100,etc."
Enter terminal type: xterm
A new LOGIN.CL file has been created in the current directory.
You may wish to review and edit this file to change the defaults.

The cl command should now start up the CL, which will clear the screen and print out a startup message. The standard test procedure included in Volume 1A of the IRAF User Handbook should be run to verify the installation.