Thanks, Scott. I have just been able to get on to the IRAF discussion
group. Maybe they can resolve this. I will submit your thought, without
your identity of course.
Stan
On 6/27/2018 1:55 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 01:02:56PM -0700, Stan Gorodenski
> stanlep@commspeed.net [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> > I installed a program called IRAF. It came back and said:
> > Congratulations! IRAF has been successfully installed on this system.
> >
> > It then said:
> > To begin using IRAF you can simply type
> > % source ~/.login
> > % cl
> >
> > However, when I executed the first line, i.e. source ~/.login, it came
> > back and said:
> > -bash: /home/stanlepast/.login: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of
> > file.
> >
> > The .login file has the following statement:
> > # add iraf setup commands
> > if ( -e /home/stanlepast/.iraf/setup.csh) then
> > source /home/stanlepast/.iraf/setup.csh
> > endif
>
> It seems to assume that you are using a C based shell, usually tcsh. That
> has different syntax than bash. Depending upon your distribution, you
> should be able to install csh or tcsh, then change to that shell to
> run it.
>
> I don't know C shell at all, I would guess that the -e means exist, that
> is, if this file exists, then source it.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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>
Posted by: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@commspeed.net>
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