2 Setting up the applications

After sourcing the Starlink /star/etc/login and /star/etc/cshrc files the datacube command will make the datacube package scripts available to you, the following message (or one much like it!) should appear

  % datacube
  
    DATACUBE applications are now available -- (Version 1.2)
     Support is available by e-mailing starlink@jiscmail.ac.uk
  
         Type cubehelp for help on DATACUBE commands.
    Type ’showme sun237’ to browse the hypertext documentation
    or ’showme sc16’ to consult the IFU data product cookbook.
  
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at this point you can test whether the datacube package has been correctly installed by typing

  % datacube_test

which will run the test script for the package. If the script does not run correctly you should consult your Starlink system administrator.

It should be noted that there are a great many useful applications available in other Starlink packages that will assist you in dealing with your IFU data (see SC/16 for details), so you may, at the minimum, wish to setup the Kappa applications with the kappa command.

  % kappa
  
      KAPPA commands are now available -- (Version 1.12)
  
      Type kaphelp for help on KAPPA commands.
      Type ’showme sun95’ to browse the hypertext documentation.
  
      NOTE, several applications have had major changes made to their
      parameter lists. See the ’Release Notes’ section of SUN/95 for
      details.
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