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| ====== Built-in RedHat / CentOS applications: ====== | ====== Built-in RedHat / CentOS applications: ====== |
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| **vi**: A standard UNIX text editor. | - **vi**: A standard UNIX text editor. |
| **emacs**: A powerful text editor. | |
| **tex/latex**: A standard text processing system. | - **emacs**: A powerful text editor. |
| **evince/kghostview**: Packages for viewing PostScript files (and more) | |
| **xfig**: A package for making diagrams. Particularly useful for making large format posters. | - **tex/latex**: A standard text processing system. |
| **convert**: command from the ImageMagick package that allows you to convert images from one format to another. | |
| **pine**: A text-based powerful email client | - **evince/kghostview**: Packages for viewing PostScript files (and more) |
| **kmail**: A graphical email client for the KDE window system. | |
| **gcalctool**: An X11-based calculator. | - **xfig**: A package for making diagrams. Particularly useful for making large format posters. |
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| | - **convert**: command from the ImageMagick package that allows you to convert images from one format to another. |
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| | - **pine**: A text-based powerful email client |
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| | - **kmail**: A graphical email client for the KDE window system. |
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| | - **gcalctool**: An X11-based calculator. |
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| ====== Locally Installed Applications: ====== | ====== Locally Installed Applications: ====== |
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| **idl**. A powerful interpreted language with graphical capabilities. This is a licensed product. Our license allows ten people, anywhere on the cluster, to be running it at a given time. | - **idl**. A powerful interpreted language with graphical capabilities. This is a licensed product. Our license allows ten people, anywhere on the cluster, to be running it at a given time. |
| **IRAF**. A standard astronomical image processing package. Set it up before using the first time with the mkiraf command. Start it up with the cl command. | |
| **STSDAS/TABLES**. Add-ons to the IRAF package for work related to HST | - **IRAF**. A standard astronomical image processing package. Set it up before using the first time with the mkiraf command. Start it up with the cl command. |
| **AIPS**. Another standard astronomical image processing package, with widespread use in the radio community. If you want to use AIPS, you will need to have some special setup on your computer - see a system administrator. | |
| **xvista**. Another astronomical image processing package, distributed worldwide by Jon Holtzman of NMSU. Take advantage of the local expertise! | - **STSDAS/TABLES**. Add-ons to the IRAF package for work related to HST |
| **soffice**: link to the OpenOffice suite, which has text processing, presentations, spreadsheet, etc, i.e. an open source alternative to Microsoft Office that runs on the Linux platform (and reads Microsoft files). | |
| **Supermongo**. Another plotting package based on the original Mongo but with significant enhancements. Start it up with the sm command. | - **AIPS**. Another standard astronomical image processing package, with widespread use in the radio community. If you want to use AIPS, you will need to have some special setup on your computer - see a system administrator. |
| **Lick Mongo**. A plotting package based on the original Mongo by John Tonry, with very similar usage. Start it up with the lmongo command. Also provides a subroutine library which can be linked to using -lmongo | |
| **xemacs**. A powerful screen based editor. | - **xvista**. Another astronomical image processing package, distributed worldwide by Jon Holtzman of NMSU. Take advantage of the local expertise! |
| **skycalendar/skycalc**. Programs for making observing calendars (skycalendar) and computing airmass tables, etc. for astronomical observations (skycalc) | |
| **xv**: A package for viewing images in a wide variety of formats, doing some simple image manipulation, grabbing images from the screen, etc | - **soffice**: link to the OpenOffice suite, which has text processing, presentations, spreadsheet, etc, i.e. an open source alternative to Microsoft Office that runs on the Linux platform (and reads Microsoft files). |
| **acroread**. Program to read Adobe PDF format files. | |
| **gifmerge**. Program to take a set of individual GIF format files and combine them into a single animated GIF file. | - **Supermongo**. Another plotting package based on the original Mongo but with significant enhancements. Start it up with the sm command. |
| **Numerical Recipes library**. Provides many numerical subroutines and functions. See the book by Press et al. The routines are provided through an object library. Use -lrecipes_f for f77/g77, -lrecipes_c for c routines. | |
| **slalib**. Subroutine library which provides a wide variety of tasks used for making astronomical observations (e.g., airmass, sidereal time, etc.) | - **Lick Mongo**. A plotting package based on the original Mongo by John Tonry, with very similar usage. Start it up with the lmongo command. Also provides a subroutine library which can be linked to using -lmongo |
| **xanim**. Package which display movies in a variety of formats | |
| **latex2html**. Package which converts LaTeX files into HTML files. | - **xemacs**. A powerful screen based editor. |
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| | - **skycalendar/skycalc**. Programs for making observing calendars (skycalendar) and computing airmass tables, etc. for astronomical observations (skycalc) |
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| | - **xv**: A package for viewing images in a wide variety of formats, doing some simple image manipulation, grabbing images from the screen, etc |
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| | - **acroread**. Program to read Adobe PDF format files. |
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| | - **gifmerge**. Program to take a set of individual GIF format files and combine them into a single animated GIF file. |
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| | - **Numerical Recipes library**. Provides many numerical subroutines and functions. See the book by Press et al. The routines are provided through an object library. Use -lrecipes_f for f77/g77, -lrecipes_c for c routines. |
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| | - **slalib**. Subroutine library which provides a wide variety of tasks used for making astronomical observations (e.g., airmass, sidereal time, etc.) |
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| | - **xanim**. Package which display movies in a variety of formats |
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| | - **latex2html**. Package which converts LaTeX files into HTML files. |
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| ====== Current IDL License ====== | ====== Current IDL License ====== |
