Hi Crystal,

I confirmed the error you are seeing by copying 15Hmaster.tab to different
Linux system running IRAF, which all give the same error you saw on
sasanami:

ta> tlcol 15Hmaster.tab
# 15Hmaster.tab
Warning: Unknown table type, or line too long for text file.

I checked that the files were being copied correctly, by scping
15Hmaster.tab from one of our linux machines, back to indy, and
successfully running tlcol on it.

I've cc'd hotseat@stsci.edu, who is listed as support for the TABLES
package.

best,
Robin

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Robin H. Yamaguchi
Physics Computing Services
UC Santa Barbara
805-893-8366
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Crystal Martin wrote:

> Hi IRAF Gurus,
>
> I have a question about the ttools package in IRAF.
>
> I created a binary table using "tcreate" and "tedit"
> on a Sun workstation running Solaris, named Indy. The
> ttools package works without a hitch. The IRAF distribution
> is the EXPORT version of Sun/IRAF V2.11 for SunOS 4 and Solaris 2.7.
>
> I transferred the table to a PC, named Sasanami, running
> linux. It is running the EXPORT version of PC-IRAF V2.12.
> (The file does not appear to be corrupted in any way; and
> I tried the transfer with ssh, and with sftp with explicit
> "binary."
>
> The version of IRAF that's running on Sasanami cannot read
> tables created with IRAF on Indy - see error message below.
> Can you tell what's wrong?
>
> The ".tab" files are binary tables described in the notes on
> the IRAF project webpage.
>
> Thanks,
> Crystal
>
>
> ON INDY:
>
> cl> tables
> ta> tlcol 15Hmaster.tab
> # 15Hmaster.tab
> name CH*15 %-15s ""
> ra CH*15 %-15s ""
> dec CH*15 %-15s ""
> P I %11d ""
> 15hconf2 I %11d ""
> KeckM I %11d ""
> 15hf4A I %11d ""
> 15Hf4C I %11d ""
> 04julymask R %d ""
> z R %15.7g ""
> lineID CH*10 %-10s ""
> scr I %d ""
> 15hf2conA I %d ""
> ContSearch B %d ""
>
>
> ON SASANAMI:
>
> cl> tables
> ta> tlcol 15Hmaster.tab
> # 15Hmaster.tab
> Warning: Unknown table type, or line too long for text file.
>

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