Re: isis startup error

David P. Huenemoerder wrote:
>     John> I don't know about others on the list, but I run ciao in a
>     John> ciao-specific window and do only "ciao-things" in that
>     John> window.  I run isis and non-ciao applications in other
>     John> windows.  With that said, I believe ciao-4-beta is a bit
>     John> more friendly in this respect, but I still plan to keep the
>     John> applications segregated.
> 
> I do run isis in a ciao-configured shell, but I don't use any of the
> ciao modules (like group, paramio, pixlib, region).  Sometimes I call
> ciao tools from a slang program, mainly for test purposes when I want
> to loop over many parameter values or files, or I run an isis-script
> to make summary plots of a ciao data processing run.
> 
> To do this I unset the ciao-configured
> 
> unset ISIS_SRCDIR
> unset SLANG_MODULE_PATH
> 
> and use the local installation (I don't believe you need to reset them
> if you use your default configuration).  I'm usually not using
> HEASOFT, so I don't unset as much as John does.
> 
> In general, I agree w/ John - for most applications you don't need
> ciao and isis in the same window and you can run them independently.
> My normal everyday spectral analysis is done w/out ciao tools.

Unfortuantely, this is the very antithesis of how I have our system 
configured. At login time people get the common packages (heasoft, ciao, 
sas etc) started such that the stuff that they need Just Works.

Hum, I wonder if I can use the SLANG_MODULE_PATH to point to the 
structfuns.sl module. (see previous post in reply to John).

Thanks

Roderick
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