Well, nobody ever said astrophysics was easy...In this section, I discuss the steps needed to reduce near-IR data. I also list, in small print, the technical details of how I do the reduction using IRAF.
The IRAF examples listed here use a very basic version of IRAF, and should be workable almost anywhere. More modern versions of IRAF have some powerful new tasks which make the job easier. Peter McGregor at Stromlo has also written an add-on package to IRAF which makes the reduction of CASPIR data easy, if you have it (it is described in the CASPIR manual and on-line). MIDAS and FIGARO also have near-IR reduction algorithms.