[daip] Re: FITLD and JIVE data

[Huib Jan van Langevelde]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Eric Greisen wrote:


>      It turns out that most of the main header is ignored even when
> parsed.  The header is initialized much later.  I added code to trap
> the INSTRUME keyword value and get it into the right place.

Thanks.

>
>  >
>  > A related question is about the sort order. We explicitly set it to TB,
>  > as it comes out sorted. This is indeed copied to AIPS, unless you read
>  > multiple (time-sequenced) FITS files, than it seems to be set to **.
>  > I guess, as you cannot be certain about the order of the FITS files,
>  > this is the desired behaviour? There is no way around this? Sorting is
>  > quite a big step for these datasets.
>
> The sort order is set to TB in IDI and then changed to ** only when an
> out of order sample is found.  MSORT should not be a big deal now that
> I have fixed it (very recently).

OK, I will have to check that, because it implies we are somehow
destroying the TB ourselves...

Groeten, Huib

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