GEMINI (Oct2001) Gemini IRAF package v1.2 GEMINI (Oct2001) Release date: October 15, 2001 This document describes the revisions relative to the Gemini IRAF package v1.1 PRIMARY REVISIONS: 1) Tasks for reduction of NIRI imaging data. A new package "niri" is included. 2) Tasks for reduction of Flamingos-I imaging data. A new package "flamingos" is included. 3) Support tasks for NIRI imaging data included in the "gemtools" package 4) Updates of the tasks gemtools.imcoadd and gemtools.gemseeing to handle NIRI imaging data 5) Smaller bug fixes in the "quirc" package. DETAILS OF THE REVISIONS: niri.nprepare niri.nifastsky niri.nisky niri.niflat niri.nireduce niri.niriinfo A new package "niri" is released. It contains tasks for reduction of imaging data from NIRI. The release includes tasks for construction of sky frames and flat fields, as well as a task for applying these frames to science data. A description of the NIRI data format and how to reduce NIRI data is available as the task "niririnfo". flamingos.fprepare flamingos.flamingosinfo A new package "flamingos" is released. It contains only one real task, fprepare, which is used to turn the Flamingos-I imaging data into a format that can be reduced with the tasks in the "niri" package. quirc.qsky Small fixes that makes the task more stabel. gemtools.gemseeing Updates to handle NIRI and Flamingos-I data. gemtools.imcoadd Updates to handle NIRI and Flamingos-I data. In addition more error trapping is done and the script is now more stable. In preparation for handling of GMOS data the coding for the calculation of the badpixel masks for the case growthrad=1 has been changed. The output is consistent with the previous version, but the new version runs slightly faster. gemtools.gemhedit Improved handling of high precision reals. gemtools.wmef gemtools.gimverify (hidden task) gemtools.gsetsec (hidden task) Generic tasks for support of tasks in the "niri" package have been added to the "gemtools" package.