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aipsinit

AIPS++ programmers and users define their AIPS++ ``environment'' by means of the aipsinit.[c]sh scripts. One or other of the two scripts can be used for Bourne-like shells (sh, bash, ksh), or C-like shells (csh, tcsh). aipsinit defines a single environment variable, AIPSPATH, which contains five space-separated character strings describing the root of the AIPS++ directory tree, the host architecture, the AIPS++ version, the local site name, and the local host name. This information is fundamental and must be known in order to access the aipsrc databases. aipsinit also redefines the PATH (and MANPATH) environment variables, adding the AIPS++ binary (and man page) directories to it. The user can control the precise position of the AIPS++ binary directories in PATH, or else can accept the default of prepending it (after ``.'' it that was first).