[daip] Can AIPS directories be moved en masse w/o writing to FITS?

[Eric Perlman]

Hi,

I have a fairly generic question:  can one move the contents of AIPS
directories from computer to computer (and in this case from institution to
institution) without the intermediate step of writing to FITS?  In other
words, if I just tar the contents of the AIPS directory on machine a, and
then copy it to a directory on machine b, will machine b be able to read 
everything just fine?

A secondary question to this is how the issue of crossing platforms affects 
this.  In my case the "from" machine is Solaris, while the "to" machine is 
RedHat Linux.  As I'm sure you know, the two operating systems have opposite 
endian-ness conventions.  What files would need to be converted and what 
files wouldn't? 

Thanks in advance

Eric

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