Setting “imextn”

Guest wrote on Oct 24, 2005

Many instruments (at Lowell) are outputting FITS files with just numeric extensions e.g.,  imageroot.123

IRAF can recognize these by adding  "???"  to the  "imextn" definition in loginuser.cl, but it there a
was to modify this so that only numbers are included ... e.g., so that IRAF will not attempt to include, say
.dat files in a list.

I tried :   reset imextn="fxf:fit,fits,FIT,[0-9][0-9][0-9]"    and   "![0-9]![0-9]![0-9]"   ... neither work.

Cheers,

-- Ed

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Guest wrote on Oct 24, 2005

Hello Ed;

       I am not sure there is an easy solution on our part to solve this problem. It would require modifications to the imio interface which we do not have resources to allocate at this time.

       My suggestion would be to modify somehow the output from the instrument software or just rename the files to something like 'file_123.fits'.

Please let us know if you have other thougts.

Thanks,
Nelson Zarate

On 10/24/05, Ed Anderson <Ed.Anderson@nau.edu ([email]ed.anderson@nau.edu[/email])> wrote:

Many instruments (at Lowell) are outputting FITS files with just numeric extensions e.g.,  imageroot.123

IRAF can recognize these by adding  "???"  to the  "imextn" definition in loginuser.cl, but it there a
was to modify this so that only numbers are included ... e.g., so that IRAF will not attempt to include, say
.dat files in a list.

I tried :   reset imextn="fxf:fit,fits,FIT,[0-9][0-9][0-9]"    and   "![0-9]![0-9]![0-9]"   ... neither work.

Cheers,

-- Ed

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Ed Anderson,  M.Sc.                       Email: Ed.Anderson@nau.edu ([email]ed.anderson@nau.edu[/email])
Support Systems Analyst, Sr.             Phone:  (928) 523-7096
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy            FAX:    (928) 523-1371
Northern Arizona University              Pager:  (928) 779-8818
Box 6010
Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-6010

Home Page: http://www.physics.nau.edu/~anderson

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Guest wrote on Oct 24, 2005

Thanks Nelson,

Personally, I prefer  ".fits" extensions.  But I don't have control over other observatories outputs :)

I was just making sure that I had not missed some sort of "syntactical" scheme in setting "imextn".

Cheers,

-- Ed

At 08:13 AM 10/24/2005, you wrote:

Hello Ed;

       I am not sure there is an easy solution on our part to solve this problem. It would require modifications to the imio interface which we do not have resources to allocate at this time.

       My suggestion would be to modify somehow the output from the instrument software or just rename the files to something like 'file_123.fits'.

Please let us know if you have other thougts.

Thanks,
Nelson Zarate

On 10/24/05, Ed Anderson <Ed.Anderson@nau.edu ([email]ed.anderson@nau.edu[/email])> wrote:

Many instruments (at Lowell) are outputting FITS files with just numeric extensions e.g.,  imageroot.123

IRAF can recognize these by adding  "???"  to the  "imextn" definition in loginuser.cl, but it there a
was to modify this so that only numbers are included ... e.g., so that IRAF will not attempt to include, say
.dat files in a list.

I tried :   reset imextn="fxf:fit,fits,FIT,[0-9][0-9][0-9]"    and   "![0-9]![0-9]![0-9]"   ... neither work.

Cheers,

-- Ed

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Ed Anderson,  M.Sc.                       Email: Ed.Anderson@nau.edu ([email]ed.anderson@nau.edu[/email])
Support Systems Analyst, Sr.             Phone:  (928) 523-7096
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy            FAX:    (928) 523-1371
Northern Arizona University              Pager:  (928) 779-8818
Box 6010
Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-6010

Home Page: http://www.physics.nau.edu/~anderson

Staff Astronomer, NURO, http://www.nuro.nau.edu

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Ed Anderson,  M.Sc.                       Email: Ed.Anderson@nau.edu
Support Systems Analyst, Sr.             Phone:  (928) 523-7096
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy            FAX:    (928) 523-1371
Northern Arizona University              Pager:  (928) 779-8818
Box 6010
Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-6010

Home Page: http://www.physics.nau.edu/~anderson

Staff Astronomer, NURO, http://www.nuro.nau.edu

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