[daip] Q: Solaris->Linux migration of AIPS data

[Eric Greisen]

Michael Bietenholz writes:
 >   I have a large directory structure with lots of files on Solaris UFS
 > SCSI disks.  We are considering moving to a Linux system.  Is there an
 > easy way to migrate (ie. copy) this directory structure and all the
 > files to Linux disks?  I think I can't either a) mount the UFS disks
 > on the Linux system b) do a straight file copy of of the entire aips
 > directory because the Solaris files are big-endian and Linux is
 > little-endian, but maybe there is a way round this.
 > 

The AIPS files are binary structures that are affected by the byte
swapping issues.  The only way to do this migration is with FITS
files. 

We have a RUN file called WRTPROCS with functions WRTDISK and READISK
to help you with this.

ERic Greisen