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/