General AIPS++ setup

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General AIPS++ setup

The AIPS++ environment is defined via a once-only modification to your shell's startup script.

Assuming that AIPS++ has been installed under /aips++, users of Bourne-like shells (sh, ksh, bash) must add the following to their .profile file at a point after PATH (and MANPATH) are defined:

   # Get the AIPS++ environment.
     [ -f /aips++/aipsinit.sh ] && . /aips++/aipsinit.sh

The equivalent entry in .login for C-like shells (csh, tcsh) is:

   # Get the AIPS++ environment.
     if (-f /aips++/aipsinit.csh) source /aips++/aipsinit.csh

Users of the rc shell might use

   # Get the AIPS++ environment.
     if (test -f /aips++/aipsinit.rc) . /aips++/aipsinit.rc

in .rcrc, or in .esrc for the es shell:

   # Get the AIPS++ environment.
     if {test -f /aips++/aipsinit.es} {. /aips++/aipsinit.es}

The aipsinit (p) scripts define a single environment variable called AIPSPATH (§1.2) and add the AIPS++ bin area to the PATH environment variable and the AIPS++ man directory to the MANPATH environment variable.

For more detailed information, see aipsinit (p). This contains an explanation of AIPSPATH and a mechanism for controlling the point where the AIPS++ bin areas are added to PATH.

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