[daip] Re: aips DA=jansky

[zadeh at northwestern.edu]

Hi Pat, 
Just wanted to belated thank you for your note below. 
Too bad that we can't access the files directly
by mounting the disks. That is life, I guess. 
Cheers, 
Farhad

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Patrick P Murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:48:58 -0500 (CDT), Daniel Johannsson
>    <djohanns at northwestern.edu> said: 
> 
> > That answers the question even before I could type it out in more detail.
> > Are there any other options for data sharing between Solaris/Sparc and
> > Linux/x86 aips systems then?  To just have aips read data from a remote
> > nfs filesystem without using the DA= method?
> 
> The solution is to convert the AIPS data to FITS format (as I indirectly
> said in the previous message).  FITS data files are always in network
> order (big-endian), even on a little-endian system.  So use FITTP or
> FITAB on one machine to write the AIPS data out to FITS files either on
> disk or tape, and then use FITLD on the other machine to read these FITS
> files back in.
> 
> This will work fine for primary (UV and Image) data, but as far as I
> know, not for the "plot file" extensions attached to said primary data.
> Eric should know if there are other extensions that would fail to make
> the transition.  Run files are text and can just be copied as is.
> 
> 				- Pat
>