UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide

UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide

4. Graphics and Image Display

IRAF itself is device and window system independent, hence it can be used with any windowing system such as X11 or SunView, or with hardware graphics and display devices. Nowadays most people will be running IRAF on a UNIX workstation under X11. At the time that this is being written, IRAF is most commonly run under X11 using xterm for graphics and saoimage for image display. Binaries for these applications are included in the IRAF distribution if not already provided with the window system software on the host system. New graphics and image display clients are being developed for use with IRAF running under X11; contact the IRAF group for further information on the availability of these products.