- 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.

- 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.

The current version of idl99 is located in:

/home/local/harris/idl/