Sun/IRAF V2.11 Site Manager's Guide

4.2. Vector graphics capabilities

The standard graphics terminal emulator for Sun/IRAF under OpenWindows is xgterm, which emulates a conventional dual plane text/graphics terminal. This software terminal is driven via an ASCII datastream like a conventional hard terminal (except that the effective baud rate is much higher). The text window behaves like the Sun console and the graphics window behaves like a Tektronix 4012, plus some IRAF oriented extensions. Since xgterm emulates standard text and graphics devices non-IRAF programs can easily be run as well as IRAF programs.

Configuring IRAF to use xgterm is very simple. The following command does the job. This is normally executed by the login.cl or loginuser.cl file at login time, the default terminal type used is set by the user when running a mkiraf command to create the login.cl file:

cl> stty xgterm

Further information on xgterm may be found in the man page distributed with the X11IRAF binaries.