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| | UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | A common mode of operation with a workstation is to run IRAF under a window system directly on the workstation which runs IRAF, accessing files either on a local disk, or on a remote disk via a network interface (NFS, IRAFKS, etc.). |
 | | It is also possible, however, to run the window system on the workstation, but run IRAF on a remote node, e.g., some powerful compute server such as a large UNIX server, a large VAX, vector minisupercomputer, supercomputer, etc., possibly quite some distance away. |
 | | This is done by logging onto the workstation, starting up the window system, logging onto the remote machine with rlogin, telnet, or whatever, and starting up IRAF on the remote node. |
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