====== Built-in RedHat / CentOS applications: ======

 - **vi**: A standard UNIX text editor.

 - **emacs**: A powerful text editor.

 - **tex/latex**: A standard text processing system.

 - **evince/kghostview**: Packages for viewing PostScript files (and more)

 - **xfig**: A package for making diagrams. Particularly useful for making large format posters.

 - **convert**: command from the ImageMagick package that allows you to convert images from one format to another.

 - **pine**: A text-based powerful email client

 - **kmail**: A graphical email client for the KDE window system.

 - **gcalctool**: An X11-based calculator.

====== Locally Installed Applications: ======

 - **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

 - **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!

 - **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.

 - **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.

 - **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

 - **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.

 - **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.)

 - **xanim**. Package which display movies in a variety of formats

 - **latex2html**. Package which converts LaTeX files into HTML files.


====== Current IDL License ======

The current version of idl99 is located in:

<code>
/home/local/harris/idl/
</code>