VMS/IRAF Installation and Site Manager's Guide

VMS/IRAF Installation and Site Manager's Guide

4.2. The template LOGIN.CL

The template login.cl file, hlib$login.cl, is the file used by mkiraf to produce the user login.cl file. The user login.cl file, after having possibly been edited by the user, is read and executed by the CL every time a new CL is started to define the initial configuration of the CL. Hence this file plays an important role in establishing the IRAF environment seen by the user.

Examples of things one might want to change in the template login.cl are the commented out environment definitions, the commented out CL parameter assignments, the foreign task definitions making up the default USER package, and the list of packages to be loaded at startup time. For example, if there are host tasks or local packages which should be part of the default IRAF operating environment at your site, the template login.cl is the place to make the necessary changes.