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Re: Reading FITS files with the Mac version of IDL [message #5588]

Thu, 04 January 1996 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Glenn J White <G.J.White@qmw.ac.uk> writes:

> I have been trying to import FITS files into IDL 4.01
> for a Mac PowerPC, and hit problems with the apparent
> non-standard system parameters !TEXTOUT and !textunit,
> when using the various FITS reader .pro files in the
> IDL Astronomy users library. Has anyone else
> encountered this problem and worked around it ?
> Thanks for any help you van give

You need to define these environment variables before running the software.
The routine astrolib.pro will do this for you. Simply put the command

astrolib

in your IDL startup procedure.

Bill Thompson

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