IMFORT bug on byte swapped platforms

Doug Tody wrote on Feb 24, 1998

When run on a byte-swapped platform (e.g. the DEC Alpha or a PC) IMFORT can
generate images that have the byte swap flag set incorrectly in the image
headers, causing the image pixels to be improperly byte swapped: image
reads either return wildly invalid pixels or abort with a floating invalid
exception.

The temporary fix is to install a new libimfort.a.  New versions of this
library are available in the archives for PCIX (PC-IRAF) and DUNX (Digital
Unix for the DEC Alpha).  This will be fixed more formerly in the upcoming
V2.11.2 patch.  See the section at the end of the README file in each
distribution directory for additional comments or other platform specific
notes.

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Last post on Feb 24, 1998