This is to fix the "chicken scratches" bug that occurs with IMTOOL on a sparcstation. The problem occurs due to a bug in the SunOS kernel for the sparcstation. The patch given here is a workaround to avoid the problem until Sun fixes the bug. To patch the imtool executable, login as iraf, then make a backup copy of the imtool.e executable and patch the online one, as follows (be sure to get the case of the ?X and ?W right): % cd $iraf/unix/bin.sparc % cp imtool.e imtool.e.OLD % % adb -w imtool.e 0xc2a0?X * 0xc2a0: ac102018 0xc2a0?W0xac10200c * 0xc2a0: 0xac102018 = 0xac10200c $q % In the sequence shown above, the lines marked * are adb output. If the old value of location 0xc2a0 is not ac102018 (hex) as shown, then you have an old or otherwise unusual version of IMTOOL and the patch should not be applied. Once the executable has been patched, either copy the new executable to /usr/bin/imtool (or wherever imtool lives on your system) or rerun the INSTALL script in $hlib. The fix changes the rasterop used to draw the IMTOOL crosshair cursor from a copy-source-to-destination to an xor-source-and-destination. This results in a less visible cursor, but avoids the bug that leaves the scratches all over the IMTOOL window.