Parameters

If you don't like KAPPA's parameter defaults, or its choice of which parameters get prompted for and which get defaulted, then you can change them. Extract the interface file from
/star/kappa/kappa_ifls.tar to your work directory and make the required modifications, and then recompile it. See SUN/115 on the meanings and possible values of the fieldnames, and how to recompile the interface file. If you use ICL, you'll need to modify a monolith interface file: $KAPPA_DIR/kappa_mon.ifl, kapview_mon.ifl or ndfpack_mon.ifl. Finally, you will need to specify a search path that includes the directory containing your modified interface file.

     % setenv ADAM_IFL /home/scratch/dro/ifls:/usr/local/kappa

This asks Starlink programmes to look in /home/scratch/dro/ifls to find the interface file, and if there isn't one to look in /usr/local/kappa. If the interface file search is unsuccessful, the directory containing the executable is assumed. Thus if you've not created your own interface file for a task, you'll get the released version. Of course, once you have done this, the documentation in the application specifications will no longer be correct.