DS9 Users Manual
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IRAF Support

DS9 is a fully functional IRAF Image Display Server. IRAF uses the IIS protocol to communicate with a valid image display server, such as DS9. As with XIMTOOL, the follow command line arguments may be used to specify the communication parameters:
  • -fifo
  • -fifo_only
  • -inet_only
  • -port
  • -port_only
  • -unix
  • -unix_only
    • The default parameters are:
  • fifo none
  • port 5137
  • unix /tmp/.IMT%d
    • DS9 supports an unlimited number of display frames. All native DS9 functions may be used with images load with IRAF display except for the Scale menu items. Values displayed may the the true values, if a linear scale is specified with the display command. Otherwise, the value is a scaled value. DS9 supports IRAF in all display visuals including Truecolor. Support full postscript printing of images loaded from IRAF is provided.