this directory is a place for astro software that needs to be shared across all hosts.
for example right now it has some scripts for compiling and linking fortran, c, pgplot, etc.
it also contains jpeg2ps, astrolib, sm, starlink, pgplot ; many of which have not yet actually been installed but only transferred to here. ie they may well have wrong paths. by the way, to add /usr/share/astro to your path (so that this directory is automatically searched for executables), either copy joel’s .cshrc to your home directory, or put into your .cshrc a line that says
set path = (. $path /usr/share/astro)
(this should replace or augment any current such statement in your .cshrc. note that there are three entries inside the parentheses: ‘.’ which means the current directory; ‘$path’ which means whatever the current value of the path is; and ‘/usr/share/astro’, which is what you want to add.)
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