Conversion of Pre 2.11 IMH file from Solaris to Digital Unix

Andrew M. Newsam wrote on Nov 25, 1999

Hello all.

Has anyone else had to convert and old-style IMH file (ie pre IRAF 2.11)
between systems with different byte orders etc (specifically from Solaris
to Digital Unix or Linux)? If they have, and they have any code or
suggestions, I would be very grateful.

Many thanks
Andy Newsam

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Doug Mink wrote on Nov 29, 1999

"Andrew M. Newsam" wrote:
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> Has anyone else had to convert and old-style IMH file (ie pre IRAF 2.11)
> between systems with different byte orders etc (specifically from Solaris
> to Digital Unix or Linux)? If they have, and they have any code or
> suggestions, I would be very grateful.

In my WCSTools package ( http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/ )
there is a program, i2f, which reads any IRAF .imh image written
in either byte order on a system which uses either byte order and
converts it to a FITS file.  The WCSTools programs run standalone
under every Unix on which they have been tested.  There is also an
IRAF package directory into which you can plug the executables at

ftp://cfa-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/gsc/WCSTools/wcstools.iraf.tar

though if this is all you want to do, just grab the WCSTools tar file
and make i2f .  Documentation is on the web site, and options are
printed
if you run the program with no arguments.

-Doug Mink
 Telescope Data Center
 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
 Cambrdige, Massachusetts USA

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Last post on Nov 29, 1999